Important Blogger Conditional Tags For SEO

If you use blogger and care about your website's SEO, if you want your site to appear on Google search then you need to make use of conditional tags to make your pages responsive and load fast. Here are important tags you would need to achieve that aim and make your site search friendly.

Useful Blogger Conditional Tags

1. Tag to Show Widget or Script Only on Homepage

<b:if cond=’data:blog.url == data:blog.homepageUrl’> Your Section or Widget portion here</b:if>

This is used to hide any anything from other pages and make it appear on the homepage, you can use this to hide your sidebar, header, footer etc and allow it to display only on the homepage.

2. Tag to Show Widget Or Script Only On a Particular Page

<b:if cond=’data:blog.url == “URL of the page“‘> Your Section or Widget portion here</b:if>

This allows you show anything only the page you feel it's required and useful, edit and paste the URL of the page you want the script to show as highlighted and save.

3. Tag to Show Widget or Script Only on Post and Pages

<b:if cond=’data:blog.pageType == “item”‘> Your Section or Widget portion here</b:if>

Use this tag to hide anything from homepage, archive and search pages and have it appear on the post and static pages only.

4. Tag to Show Widget or Script Only on Archive Pages

<b:if cond=’data:blog.pageType == “archive”‘>
 Your Section or Widget portion here
</b:if>

If you want a widget to appear only on archive pages and hide it from other pages then make use of the conditional tag above.

5. Tag to Show Widget or Script Only on Label Pages

<b:if cond=’data:blog.searchLabel’> Your Section or Widget portion here</b:if>

If you want a widget to appear only on label pages and hide it from other pages then make use of the conditional tag above.

6. Tag to Show Widget or Script Only on Post and Static Pages

<b:if cond=’data:blog.url == data:post.url’> Your Section or Widget portion here</b:if>

Use this to make any widget or script visible on the post and static pages while invisible on every other page.

7. Tag to Show Widget or Script Only on Static Pages

<b:if cond=’data:blog.pageType != “static_page”‘> Your Section or Widget portion here</b:if>

This tag is used to show any portion or widget on static pages only, the widget won't be displayed on a nonstatic page.

8. To Show Collectively on Pages e.g homepage, archive, label, static pages

data:blog.pageType == “index”

9. To Show Only on Search Results Pages

data:blog.searchQuery

10. To Show Only on First Post

data:post.isFirstPost

11. To Show Only on 404 Pages

data:blog.pageType == “error_page”

12. To Show On Multilevel Pages

<b:else />

13. To Reverse Blogger Tag

<b:if cond=’data:blog.url == data:post.url’>  

</b:if>

 To reverse this condition replace == with != 

Guide To Use Blogger Conditional Tags

Below is an example of a script, your conditional tag should be pasted on the highlighted portion of text "Your condition here"

<b:if cond = ‘Your Condition here‘>Your Section or Widget portion here</b:if>

The HTML code should look like the script below if you added the show only on homepage tag correctly.

<b:if cond = ‘data:blog.url == data:blog.homepageUrl‘><div class=”name”></div>OR
<b:widget id=”name” locked=”false” title=”name” type=”HTML”></b:widget></b:if>

Free free to ask any question and get replied as soon as possible, you may also want to check out this tutorial by a friend on how to redirect your non-www URL to www, am very sure it would boost your SEO performance.

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