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How to Add a Meta Description to Each Blog Post

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how to add a meta description to each blog post
This post will show you how to add a meta description to each blog post on your blog. This is very important in terms of SEO and is a very quick, easy way to help optimize your individual posts.

If you’re in WordPress, download Yoast and add your description to each post using that plugin, which will show up right under your post in the “new post” screen. It is as easy as it gets.

Now, Blogger folks: there’s an extra set of steps for you.

You’ll have to enable your meta descriptions first. Do that like this:
meta description

Then, on your blog post creation screen, you’ll see this:
how to add a meta description to a blog postThat’s it! Give each post a good description with your keyword in it and it’ll help out your SEO and will give people a nice summary of your post’s topic within a Google search!

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  1. Rita Marie says

    June 4, 2013 at 6:44 pm

    Thanks for this! Just added it to the blog. 🙂

    Reply
    • Zack lu says

      June 4, 2013 at 9:10 pm

      Awesome! Glad to hear it. Thanks for stopping by!

      Reply
  2. Okto says

    June 6, 2013 at 4:37 am

    Hi Zack,

    It’s important tip you have shared here. Meta description is a good method to capture potential reader for our blog, especially for those who come from search engine or social media like facebook.

    Reply
    • Zack lu says

      June 13, 2013 at 6:22 pm

      I agree! The meta description is key for improving click-throughs on a Google search.

      Reply
  3. Rene Shonerd (aka Uniform Mom) says

    June 24, 2013 at 5:17 pm

    Thanks for the tip. I wasn’t using that feature in Blogger, so now I am circling back and updating the search description for old posts.

    Reply
    • Zack lu says

      June 24, 2013 at 5:32 pm

      No problem! Ya it’s a good one to use!

      Reply
  4. Kishore says

    July 13, 2013 at 6:36 pm

    Thank you providing this article.before that i didnot know how to add meta describtion to my log.Thanks for publishing a nice article .thanks a lot.

    Reply
  5. Mohini says

    July 26, 2013 at 9:11 am

    Thanks Zack, what a easy tutorial, it helped me.

    Reply
    • Zack lu says

      July 26, 2013 at 3:38 pm

      No problem! Glad it helped!

      Reply
  6. Keri Cleverly says

    August 10, 2013 at 8:25 am

    I’m really enjoying reading your posts. Hate to admit this-but my enjoyment comes mainly from the fact that I actually understand what you’re talking about. 🙂 Thanks for breaking it down for someone not-so-tech-savvy, like me. The illustrations you’ve posted are super helpful as well.

    Reply
    • Zack lu says

      August 10, 2013 at 9:45 am

      When I started this site, I saw a need someone breaking things down in such a way that anyone can understand. Glad it’s working! 🙂 Thanks for stopping by!

      Reply
  7. Itzybellababy says

    September 3, 2013 at 7:53 pm

    Wow- I wasn’t using that at all on my blog.. thanks so much for sharing that!

    Reply
    • Zack lu says

      September 3, 2013 at 7:54 pm

      No problem! It’s a great way to let search engines know what your post is about. Glad you found my blog!

      Reply
  8. Sarah says

    September 5, 2013 at 3:00 pm

    Hell Zack. I am a new follower from the Philippines. I do get a couple issues here . One, when I type in my meta description and when I hit “save the changes” I get an error message that says “must be at most 150 characters” in red. Then when I go to the blog post creation screen I do not have a search description button. Are these issues related and what is it that I am doing wrong?

    Reply
    • Zack lu says

      September 5, 2013 at 3:50 pm

      Hi! Welcome and thank you for leaving a comment!
      Ok, the error message is correct. A meta description does have to be 150 characters or less. Google does not display more than that in the search results so 150 is the max. The issues could be related. I would try adding a shorter description and see if that helps. You can use the character count tool here to make it easy: http://charactercounttool.com/
      Hope that helps!

      Reply
  9. Latosha says

    October 8, 2013 at 2:30 am

    This site was… how do I say it? Relevant!! Finally I have found something which
    helped me. Many thanks!

    Reply
  10. Johnk67 says

    April 27, 2014 at 11:45 pm

    Fantastic website. A lot of useful information here. I’m sending it to a few pals ans also sharing in delicious. And naturally, thank you in your sweat! egceaebcckce

    Reply
    • Zack lu says

      April 28, 2014 at 11:22 am

      Thank you!

      Reply

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