fix Duplicate Meta Description Error In Google Webmaster Tools
This is a Blogger Fix post about crawling error issue on blogger
blogspot which was giving troubles for many blogger users.Google
Webmaster tools will show you if you have duplicate meta description
error for blogger homepage and also individual pages. This is happen
when you are using mobile version of your blog along with desktop
version. This doubling occurrence of meta tags for description appeared
when blogger introduced search preferences last year that offered
blogger users to insert dynamic description for every post they publish.
You can find it this option inside blogger post editor named with
Search Description and you can add any description to the specific post.
Now i am going to show you how to fix this problem in blogger's blog, so without wasting more time lets do it .
How to Fix Duplicate Meta Description Error for Blogger?
1. Go to Blogger Dashboard > Template > Edit HTML (backup your template).
2. Press Ctrl+F on your keyboard.
3. Find the following code on your blogger template
<b:if cond='data:blog.metaDescription != ""'>
<meta expr:content='data:blog.metaDescription' name='description'/>
</b:if>
NOTE : If you can’t found above code, then you may simply copy the below code and paste it just after <head> tag.
4. Now just replace above code with the below codes
<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>
5. Now save your template.
After you done all above steps then simply visit your site or any post
on your site and check the source code of your page by pressing
CTRL+U. Now you can see only one occurrence of meta description on all
your blog post. If you done it successfully then let us know in comments
section.
