How To Solve HTML Improvement Error In Google Webmaster

Webmaster, a very useful service offered by Google team to analyse or check the performance of the web site or blog by their owners. Bloggers generally use this service to know about their blog reputation in the eyes of the search engine that's why it is very important to learn the basic function of webmaster. You can increase your blog listing in search engines by optimizing your blog performance, HTML improvement option is one of them which checks the duplicate content on a blog. Here we will learn to optimize blog with webmaster using HTML improvement function.

How To Find Error In HTML Improvement Option

If you are a newbie and don't know this option yet then you have to understand which type of error it shows. It discovered the duplicate meta description tag, title tag or short description tag on your blog, your blog can't participate in Google Adsense until you solve all issues discovered by this. For this just login to your Google Webmaster and go to your blog, click Optimization from left menu an then choose HTML Improvements.

Here you will find some pages on your blog which shows duplicate meta descriptions or short meta descriptions as in following figure.

So lets remove these error one by one.

How To Remove Duplicate Meta Description Error

This problem arises due to duplicate meta description finding by Googlebot in both index page or archive page so to disable Googlebot to index meta description in archive page, we can solve this error. For this you have to place following code in blogger template.

1. Login to blogger dashboard.
2. Go to Template and click Edit HTML option.
3. Paste following code just below the <title> tag.

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;archive&quot;'>
<meta content='noindex,noarchive' name='robots'/>
</b:if>

Wait for some days, when webmaster update your blog data then it will be removed completely.

You learn more about meta tags from here.

How To Remove Short Meta Description

Click on the short meta description option in webmaster, you will see the number of pages that are responsible to give this error.

Now go to your blogger dashboard and open these articles one by one in post editor and apply a search description of greater than 10 words for each. for example

If you add a search description as shown in above figure then obviously it gives short meta description error because the number of words are less than 10.

Finally after removing all these error from webmaster you will get a chance to improve your search engine ranking.

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