Do you know that Meta tags, especially the Meta Description is really-really important for us to have a better look and postition on search engine?
To make it easier to understand, I will just give you an example.
This is what I got after I typed TechAlerts on Google.

see the “string Value called Window Title, and give it a value equal to what you want it to be-say your name or something like Powered by TechAlerts for example. …”?
see the “nadav, @@I hope you may have solved your problem@nadavl a… - Keshav Khera. *TechAlerts+ Powered By Mushblue Blogger Template Modified by Keshav.”?
That is what Meta Description does!
This is what I got after I typed Panalo Contests on Google.

see the “Friday, November 30, 2007 by Panalo Contests Blog Contest , Simple. Win exciting prizes at SweetHacks evey monday of the week until Christmas! …”?
That is what Meta Description does!
This is what I got after I typed Income for everyone on Google.

see the “Earn Extra Money Online on Paid to Click Sites: Pai.nu Site Now Back!… Paid to Click Site News: Paid.nu Site Down, Earning Money Online Also Down …”?
see the “Blogging, get paid to click (PTC), site or product reviews and write-ups on everything that has something to do with a computer. …”?
That is what Meta Description does!
This is what I got after I typed Balootisme on Google.

see the “Modified Custom Car for American Muscle Car, Custom Harley Davidson, Modified and Brand New Cars Bikes and Trucks.”?
see the “Blog Archive. November (30); October (9). http://balootisme.blogspot.com | Design by Design Disease | A Blogger for baLooTisme.” ?
That is what Meta Description does!
Look at mine, try to type JackBook on Google. What do you get?
Meta Description can give us so many advantages if we set it right. here are some tips to set Meta Description on your blog.
1. Try to fill your Meta Description with many keywords.
Find your target! What is your target keyword? If you are targetting about making money with Paid.nu, then try to fill some keyword related to Paid.nu on the Meta Description.
example: “Making Money Online with Paid.Nu is easy! Paid.Nu is a Pay To Click (PTC) money maker, Want to make easy money online? try Paid.Nu! it’s Free!”
see? I have keywords Making Money Online, with combination making easy money online, money maker. Paid.Nu, Pay to Click, PTC. etc
2. Try to let it more then 160 characters.
The longest description Google will show on the result page list is 160 character. More then that limit? you description will be cut with “…”
3. Some people has been succeeded with bombarding the description with keywords.
example: If you write a post about making money online with Paid.Nu, you can try to use this description
“Paid.Nu, Pay To Click, PTC, Make Money, Making Money, Making Money Online, Paid.Nu Program, etc, etc, etc”
Some people has been succeeded take the first place on that keywords on Google. But for me my self, I will never click that link if I was searching a site on Google. That will make me assume that site is just a splo (spam blog) or etc.
So be wise with your Meta Descriptions.
Now, how to do this hack on Blogger?
It’s pretty easy.
1. Just go to your blogger template.
2. I recommend you to install a title swapper too, so install this hack first. Swapping Blogger Title.
3. Now look at the Swapping Blogger Title code here. find this code below
<title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title>
We will put the Meta Description right above that code. (Or below, it’s no problem. You can put it above or below that code, On this example, I will put it below).
4. Copy this code,
<meta name=”description” content=”Your Meta Description Content Here.”/>
Now you know what to do right?
yes, change the Your Meta Description Content Here with your own meta description contents. then put it below the Title Tag above (#3)
so it should be like this now
<title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title>
<meta name=”description” content=”Your Meta Description Content Here.”/>
5. Save your template and done.
Unfortunately, this trick will work on the Non Post Page only. So on your frontpage, this hack will work, but unfortunatelly on your posts, this will not work!
Example for this case is on Balootisme above.
see the balootisme result? the meta description?
Balootisme has done the right thing, he set the meta description of his Front Page, that is why you can see a good meta description there. But look at his post page.
see the “Blog Archive. November (30); October (9). http://balootisme.blogspot.com | Design by Design Disease | A Blogger for baLooTisme.” ?
That is not right isn’t it?
How to fix this?
Well I must say that it would be pretty hard to do. but it worth the results anyway.
1. Now that you have the modified script of the Swap Blogger Title script. Find this code below
<title>
<data:post.title/> - <data:blog.title/>
</title>
2. Change with this code below
<title>
<data:post.title/> - <data:blog.title/>
</title><b:if cond=’data:post.url == “http://yourblog.blogspot.com/2007/12/your-post-url-here.html”‘>
<meta name=”description” content=”Your Meta Description Content Here.”/>
</b:if>
“http://yourblog.blogspot.com/2007/12/your-post-url-here.html” is your post permalink. So this means you have to publish your post first, copy the post URL, and paste it here.
3. Save your template and done.
easy isn’t it?
What if you create a new post? What should do?
easy, all you need to do is just create that 3 lines and add it below the latest post meta description. (I mean, just look at this example below).
Let’s say now you already have this
<title>
<data:post.title/> - <data:blog.title/>
</title><b:if cond=’data:post.url == “http://yourblog.blogspot.com/2007/12/your-post-url-here.html”‘>
<meta name=”description” content=”Your Meta Description Content Here.”/>
</b:if>
If you create a new post, then create another 3 last lines. so it should be look like this
<title>
<data:post.title/> - <data:blog.title/>
</title><b:if cond=’data:post.url == “http://yourblog.blogspot.com/2007/12/your-post-url-here.html”‘>
<meta name=”description” content=”Your Meta Description Content Here.”/>
</b:if><b:if cond=’data:post.url == “http://yourblog.blogspot.com/2007/12/the-new-post-url-goes-here.html”‘>
<meta name=”description” content=”Your Meta Description Content for your new post goes Here.”/>
</b:if>
What do you think? please try this on your blog, but remember to always backup your blog first. after 1 or 2 or 3 days after you try this trick. then tell me how it goes. leave your comments here, so the other can learn from you too. take a screenshot of your search result on google.
1. go to google, type your blog title and take the screenshot.
2. go to your blogger template editor, back up your template.
3. apply this trick.
4. One or Two or Three days, go to Google again, and see the new changes.
5. Leave your comments here, and tell us the results. and thanks
Now if you creative, you can learn more about Meta Tags, and do some creative modification with this trick. Not just Meta Description, you can also add your Meta Keywords, Authors, etc.
update: Oh I almost forget, you can either see the real case study about the importances of meta tags here.



Wonderful info man

going to improvise on this right way.
btw thanks for the publicity
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Nice informarion ¡¡ in fact, is very important for search enginers
that would mean, that you will have to keep adding those three lines for every post.For 100 posts it would be 300 more lines and the performance of the blog will slow down with time.moreover the template will become too big…
in the meantime blogger has deleted several blogs due to their improper spam run while it is a tech blog.Even Tech alerts recovered it only recently.I am one victim.so i am thinking of moving to wordpress where SEO is quite easy and much better…Goodbye to blogger…
does its true jack??
how about when our blog had 100posts?
do we need to put 300 lines?
well,
of course each tricks has their own weakness. i must say yes, you have to.
but i don’t see any problem with it. it is true your template would be pretty long, but not with your html code.
just try to look at your html code after you run it, even you list 100 description, there will be only one appears.
hope you got what i’m trying to say.
This is very important for you to get free traffic from search engines. Please believe me. My blog has been around for only a month and I don’t even have a Page Rank yet. (maybe some people might help me out with this)
back to the topic, I get around 10-15 free visitors a day from search engines. It would also be nice if you would get the same.
thank you Rome
This is very important for you to get free traffic from search engines. Please believe me. My blog has been around for only a month and I don’t even have a Page Rank yet. (maybe some people might help me out with this)
back to the topic, I get around 10-15 free visitors a day from search engines. It would also be nice if you would get the same.
and btw, thank you jack for including me in the search
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Date Format Error
Hi jackbook. I really love your templates. Actually I heard a lot about date format error, and decided to fix it.
Shwoing date in JackBook templates
Same thing you can do for your label also. Just replace post-url with label-url
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nice job jack…
i will modified it as soon as possible to improve my seo..
thanks jack…
waah!
i’m nuts
can’t do this!
(i just did the title swapper, but not this!)
i will try again soon!
Error message:
We were unable to preview your template
Please correct the error below, and submit your template again.
Your template could not be parsed as it is not well-formed. Please make sure all XML elements are closed properly.
XML error message: Open quote is expected for attribute “{1}” associated with an element type “name”.
am i missing something?
Did you just copy and paste the code from this site?
please check the quote marks again. ” ” and ‘ ‘
sometime we can’t just copy and paste the code and have to type it manually.
thanks
It true Jack!. The real problem is the quote mark.
When you just copy and paste, the quote mark is look like this ” ”, but when you type manually it look like this ” “. Look carefully it obviously different. What you must do is Copy all code above and Paste on Blogger template, but then you must change all the quote mark (” ” and ‘ ‘)
. lastly save template. done..
thanks kawan_cyber
Julia,
The same apens to me, i change the quot marks from ” to ‘ and it works all right.
And i add ‘meta keywords’ to it.
Jack, it`s important to add the meta keywords or is it not worthed?
Thanks jack
Artur
phostan,
are you trying to leave a html code?
please encode it first.
thanks
great blog!
Now, this is new for me. Do you mean I’ve to install it manually? I shall try it as soon I’ve commented on all your post,
i get this error every time i try to change the line
‘1 line description of your site, no more then 160 characters’ to something else what i do is delete the words inside quote ” and paste my line but every time i get this error help me
Your template could not be parsed as it is not well-formed. Please make sure all XML elements are closed properly.
XML error message: Element type “meta” must be followed by either attribute specifications, “>” or “/>”.
sorry for bothering you jack but i think i figured out my problem there was a conflict between what i wanted to right and the code itself i wanted to include Mangalman’s perspective this small
‘ was causing problem all along as it conflicted with codes ‘ 
Hi Jack, thanks for the hack. I have a problem with it though. After I applied all the changes (1. swopping the blog and post title, 2. all the hack from this page), all worked just OK but with the exception that the meta tags in my blogger template could not be seen by any meta tag analyzers as well as by any search engine. I had to revert back to the previous state. Please do you have any comments on this? Have anyone else tried to check this hack on meta tag analyzer tool?
Thanks for any reaction,
Pavel
Recommend this tool:
http://www.seocentro.com/tools/search-engines/metatag-analyzer.html
Pavel. I had this same exact problem. No meta analyzers can read the description. Have you come up with a solution for this?
Thanks,
Mike
Thanks for the Trick..
i have tried to my Boorkmarking and Share Film Want to be Download and watching tomorrow
But i can’t swaping my blog like second trick..:(
hi! jack i have a problem with your hack. I’m getting a 404 error after I’ve save my template plss help me..
Thanks Jack.. I will try that.
i initially didnt realize that we need to add the meta tags manually. After reading this post and checking the source of my blog, i realize that it wasn’t added to my blog. This is really an oversight for me. Thanks for this article which reminded me that I didn’t add a meta.
Hope there will be sb to invent an automatic hack here soon
Hey Jack,
Good tips. Thank you!
However, when I first used them, I got two of the errors reported above: 1. 404 error and 2. the meta tags weren’t showing in the source code.
I found some tips to correct this in Blogger’s Help pages and now they’re working. If anyone else is interested, you can find exact instructions on my blog.
Cheers!
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[...] I have been searching for this blogger hack. There are some hacks I found, one is from jackbook.com but it is an old version, that hack works only for the old blogger. After blogger updated for the [...]
Hi jack thanks for your hack it gives me an Idea, but unfortunately this is not working for the latest blogger, the beta version. So I’ve just make my own hack. Thanks here is my hack:
http://www.vienmar.com/2008/04/seo/adding-meta-tags-in-every-post-for-blogger/