How To Use Yoast SEO Plugin On Blogger (Blogspot)

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Yoast SEO is a  popular Plugin on Wordpress that is used to optimize contents for easy ranking and and also helps in setting up a website’s ranking entirely.

Many people believe that a Blogger (Blogspot) Blog cannot use any plugins most especially Yoast SEO Plugin. But I will teach you how to install and implement Yoast SEO features on your Blogger Blog. All needed of you is to follow up this article.

Can I use all features of Yoast SEO on my Blogger?

Though, we can install Yoast SEO on our Blogger blog, we cant install all features. But don’t bother, the features here can make your contents rank #1 ON Google SERP. I guarantee that for you because it has been tested and trusted.

Why do I need to install Yoast SEO features on my Blogger Blog?

There are many reasons and benefits of installing Yoast SEO features on your Blogger blog, below are few benefits of installing Yoast SEO on your Blogger Blog

•  It helps in optimizing your contents with targeted keywords

•  It makes Google know exactly what your blog is all about, be it your niche, your social media, whether you are an individual or organization, e.t.c

•  You will be able to see how your posts will show on google SERP before publishing

•  It makes google crawl your website daily for faster indexing

•  Yoast SEO plugin will also tell you if your content is Good or Bad for you to correct your mistakes before publishing it.

•  It enhance the readability of your contents to in order to reduce bounce rates

•  And many more…..

Now, lets move to the point

How to install Yoast SEO features in Blogger

Here we are. To get the Yoast SEO features on your blogger blog successfully, just follow these steps below carefully.

Enable Custom Meta Description

To enable custom meta description on Blogger just Go to  Settings • Meta Tags and Enable Search Description. Then write a short note about your blog. Then click on Save Changes.



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Add below script to header tag. 

Now what you're to do is to add the following code just below the <head> tag or above the </head> tag

NOTE: PLEASE ENSURE THAT THE BELOW SCHEMA CODES HAVE PREVIOUSLY NOT BEEN CONFIGURED ON YOUR SITE. OTHERWISE, SKIP THIS STEP.

Go to Themes • Edit HTML



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Paste the following code after the <head> tag 

COPYING AND PASTING THIS CODE DIRECTLY WITHOUT MAKING THE CHANGES THAT ARE MENTIONED BELOW, WILL NOT WORK AND WILL BREAK YOUR SITE. SO MAKE SURE THAT YOU MAKE THE FOLLOWING CHANGES TO THIS CODE AS MENTIONED BELOW BEFORE PUTTING IT TO THE HEAD OF YOUR WEBSITE



Now, make the following changes to the code above (you can paste it somewhere and make the changes before adding it to your blog)

•  At Line 10, replace “LINE 10: URL OF THE LOGO OF YOUR BLOG” with the original URL of the logo of your blog. You can upload your blog’s logo in a draft post and then right-click on the image to copy its URL.

•  At Line 16, replace “LINE 16: SHORT DESCRIPTION OF YOUR BLOG.” with a short description of your Blog.

•  At Line 37, replace “LINE 37: YOUR NAME” with the Name of the primary author who posts articles on your blog.

•  At Line 39, replace “LINE 39: WEBSITE’S OFFICIAL E-MAIL ID” with the real e-mail id of your blog.

•  At Line 40, replace “LINE 40: YOUR SITE’S OFFICIAL TWITTER URL” with the real URL to the official Twitter profile of your site.

•  At Line 41, replace “LINE 41: YOUR SITE’S TWITTER USERNAME” with the username of the official Twitter profile of your blog (without the @ sign).

•  At Line 44, replace “LINE 44: TITLE OF YOUR BLOG” with the title of your blog.


Note: The code won’t compile unless you make the above changes!

Now, paste it to your Blogger’s blog as shown below


Now, the code has been successfully installed. what next? Keep on reading 😊


To get your posts optimized for better ranking with the use of Yoast SEO plugin, here are the steps you are to follow.

On-Page SEO and Readability.

Now that you are done pasting the code on your site, you have to learn how to optimize your contents using Yoast features for better ranking. To get this done, we need to create a demo WordPress site on a FREE hosting so that we can take advantage of the article checker and SERP preview tools of the Yoast SEO plugin.

To start with, you have to create a free wordpress site on 000webhost. Use the tutorial to set up your demo WordPress site. This might be a long process, but I assure you, it will be worth the effort!

After the registration, login to the Dashboard of your demo WordPress site and go to Plugins –> Add New. Search for “Yoast“. Click on Install Now. Then Activate It.

Now, all you need to do is, before publishing any post, copy and paste the whole article into a new post of the dummy WordPress and optimize your article according to the suggestions provided by the Yoast SEO plugin.

Now, let’s copy an article from Blogger to the demo WordPress site.

Also, scroll down and copy the “Search Description” from Blogger to the “Meta description” field of Yoast.

Now, let’s suppose that this article was meant to target the keyword “sample“. Thus, put the target keyword in the focus keyword field of Yoast.



Now, as you can see, there are unhappy faces besides SEO and Readability.

Our target is to optimize our article in such a way that both the faces turn happy green.

You will now scroll down and click on the SEO Analysis drop-down menu

Here you will see all the mistakes that are there in your article. You need to fix those mistakes one by one in your article so that its On-Page SEO gets brushed up.

After fixing all the SEO related problems that Yoast SEO points out in your article, the red unhappy face beside the SEO Analysis button must turn into a happy green one.

Then click on Readability.


Now fix all the readability issues that Yoast SEO suggests in your article. You can click on the eye button to locate the exact line where the problem is on. Make the face beside the Readability button turn green as well!

After fixing all the SEO and readability issues in your article, just copy the article from WordPress again and paste it to Blogger and then publish it!

I would suggest you optimize all your old articles and as well all the new articles that you will publish in the future, using this method.

You’ve successfully SEO optimized your Blogger blog and will see the huge growth in your rankings and organic traffic, soon! Keep creating quality content!

If this article has helped you use the Yoast SEO plugin in your Blogger blog, kindly consider sharing it on your favorite social media!

If you have any doubts regarding this article, feel free to comment down below.

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