Tuesday, November 3, 2015
Fix Duplicate Meta Description Error In Google Webmaster Tools
How to Remove Duplicate Meta Description Error in Google Webmaster tool
Google Webmaster tools gives webmaster a knowledge of their site's performance in search engines. Here, you can note the progress of your site and how to improve its SEO. Duplicate meta description error in Google webmaster tool exist when each posts on your blog does not have a meta search description. By telling search engines what the post is about using a search description, they can rank your pages in their result pages. Therefore, it is required that the search description is unique for each of the pages on your blog. Also, Duplicate meta description error can be brought about when you do not set your archive and labels pages as noindex.
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To identify duplicate meta description error in your blogger blog,
How to Use Google Webmaster Tools For SEO
How to Verify Blogger In Google Webmaster Tools
To identify duplicate meta description error in your blogger blog,
- Goto Google webmaster tools
- Select the site which you want to chect for the errors.
- Click on the section 'Search Appearance'
- Select 'HTML Improvements'
Here, you'll see the number of duplicate descriptions and title tags on your blog.
Remove Duplicate Meta Descriptions Blogger
Some ways in which you can remove duplicate meta description error from Google webmaster tool are:- Editing Blogger Template
- Custom Robot.txt file in Blogger
- Custom Robot Header Tags
Editing Blogger Template
To remove duplicate meta description error using your blogger template, follow the steps below
- From your Blogger dashboard,
- Go to Template
- Click on Edit HTML
- Using CTRL+F keys, search for the entire code below
<b:if cond='data:blog.metaDescription != ""'>
<meta expr:content='data:blog.metaDescription' name='description'/>
</b:if>
- Replace the code with the one below
<b:if cond='data:blog.url != data:blog.homepageUrl'>
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType != "item"'>
<b:if cond='data:blog.metaDescription != ""'>
<meta expr:content='data:blog.metaDescription' name='description'/>
</b:if>
</b:if>
</b:if>
User-agent: Mediapartners-Google*
Allow: /
User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Allow: /
User-agent: Adsbot-Google
Allow: /
User-agent: Googlebot-Mobile
Allow: /
User-agent: Twitterbot
Allow: /
User-agent: *
Disallow: /search
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Allow: /
User-agent: *
Disallow: /*.html
Allow: /*.html$
Sitemap: http://www.informationtutorial15.blogspot.com//atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500
Also Read: Optimize H1,H2 and H3 Heading Tags In Blogger
- Save the template
Custom Robot Header Tags
- From your blogger dashboard,
- Goto settings
- Click on 'Search Preferences'
- In the section 'Custom robots header tags', click on 'Edit'
- Select the radio button 'Yes'
- Tick the fields as with the image below
Custom Robot.txt
- From your blogger dashboard,
- Goto Settings
- Click on 'Search Preferences'
- In 'Customs Robots.txt' section
- Click on 'Edit'
- Select 'Yes'
- In the text field, copy the code below and paste
User-agent: Mediapartners-Google*
Allow: /
User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Allow: /
User-agent: Adsbot-Google
Allow: /
User-agent: Googlebot-Mobile
Allow: /
User-agent: Twitterbot
Allow: /
User-agent: *
Disallow: /search
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Allow: /
User-agent: *
Disallow: /*.html
Allow: /*.html$
Sitemap: http://www.informationtutorial15.blogspot.com//atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500
- Replace the higlighted URL with your site's URL.
- Click on 'Save changes'.
Also Read: Optimize H1,H2 and H3 Heading Tags In Blogger
