Use or Not to Use Meta Tag Keywords

A question came up to me if using meta keywords tag can boost or SEO ranking but first of all let us first define Meta Keywords Tag. The meta keywords tag is one of several of meta tags that you can insert into your web pages to provide search engines with information about your pages that isn’t visible on the page itself. It is usually placed within the header area of web pages.

Now going back to the question of using Meta Tag Keyword. I read a lot of articles saying the meta tag keyword is not that relevant nowadays and it's practically useless. But some says other search engine use if for retrieval purposes. So, what it's gonna be use meta tag keywords or not?

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How to Put the Facebook Like Button Above or Below every Post

1. Login to your Blogger Account and go to Layout > Edit HTML and click on the check box which says “Expand Widget Templates”

2. Copy this Facebook Like code.

<iframe allowTransparency='true' expr:src='&quot;http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=&quot; + data:post.url + &quot;&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=100&amp;action=like&amp;font=arial&amp;colorscheme=light&quot;' frameborder='0' scrolling='no' style='border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:25px;'/>


3. Look for <data:post.body/> in your blog html.
If you want to see the Facebook Like Button above each post.
Paste the code immediately before <data:post.body/>

To place the Facebook Like Button below each post
Paste the code immediately after <data:post.body/>

Facebook Like Button Optional Settings

With the default code provided try to experiment with these options

layout=standard
layout=button_count

action=like
action=recommend

colorscheme=light
colorscheme=dark
colorscheme=evil

font=arial
font=lucida+grande
font=segoe+ui
font=tahoma
font=trebuchet+ms
font=verdana

show_faces=false
show_faces=true

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How to show comment box below a post

1. Login into your blogger account.
2. Choose your blog and click “Layout”
3. Click “Edit Html” subtab on the “Template” tab
4. Mark expand Widget Template chechbox
5. Press Ctrl+F search



<p class='comment-footer'>
<b:if cond='data:post.allowComments'>
<a expr:href='data:post.addCommentUrl' expr:onclick='data:post.addCommentOnclick'>
<data:postCommentMsg/></a>
</b:if>
</p>

6. Replace code block with:



<p class='comment-footer'>
<b:if cond='data:post.embedCommentForm'>
<b:include data='post' name='comment-form'/> <b:else/>
<b:if cond='data:post.allowComments'>
<a expr:href='data:post.addCommentUrl' expr:onclick='data:post.addCommentOnclick'>
<data:postCommentMsg/></a>
</b:if> </b:if>
</p>

7. Save Template
8. Go to Settings then Comments panel or your blog. Set Comment Form Placement to Embedded below post. The embedded comment form can not be used if you have Post Pages disabled.
9. Save settings.
10. Done.

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Blogger Expandable Posts - Read more Trick

1. Login into your blogger account.
2. Choose your blog and click “Layout”
3. Click “Edit Html” subtab on the “Template” tab
4. Expand Widget Template as shown in image below
5. Press Ctrl+F search body/
6. Paste the code below before <p><data:post.body/></p>
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'>
<style>.fullpost{display:inline;}</style>
<p><data:post.body/></p>
<b:else/>
<style>.fullpost{display:none;}</style>

7. Paste the code below after <p><data:post.body/></p>
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType != "item"'>
<a expr:href='data:post.url'>Read more...</a>
</b:if>
</b:if>
8. Click save Templates.
9. Go to Blogger Settings/Formatting/ copy paste the code below in Post Template
<span class="fullpost">

</span>
10. Hit Save.

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Optimize Blog Title - Blogger SEO tip

Every time I create a new blog in Blogspot, this is the first modification I usually do for SEO purpose. I posted it so I can refer to it everytime I forget the code. :D

To optimize your blog title and attract more visitors.
1. Login to your blogger account
2. Click Layout
3. Search <title> <data:blog.pageTitle/> </ title>.
4. Replace the line with this code


<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'>
<title> <data:blog.pageName/> | <data:blog.title/></title>
<b:else/>
<title> <data:blog.pageTitle/></title>
</b:if>


5. Save and your done. :)

From here on every post that you will make you would notice that your browser caption will have your post title first followed by your blog title. These title positions would also be applied when it appears on the Google search page.

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