If you want to choose a language as a default website language of your blog, read this article. It will help you to declare any language as a default language of your blog.
People create a blog on targeting international traffic. To getting international traffic you have to keep your blog always ready.
You can keep it ready by doing proper SEO of your blog. Default website language has come under the main part of SEO.
You can define it by using HTML or XML. It also called Language definition tag.
It helps in SEO because by declaring a website language, crawlers don’t have to spend more time to understand your content and also its language. It takes it easy.
Except for Blogger.com in some blog making platform, it generates automatically. Therefore we have created manually in blogger. Simply we have to add a few tags only. These tags are in HTML or XML language.
In this article, I am going to show you how to declare your website language with helping of HTML.
The advantage to declare website language
ü No need to set each and every page language especially by doing this
ü Language Code specify in URL after declaring website language
ü Crawler would easily crawl your website
ü It does not increase the load time of your website
How to declare the Website Language
It is essential to place the language tag under the <html> tag. Consider the following tag as an example
<html lang=”en”>
…
</html>
…
</html>
A few difference between XML coding and HTML coding but it is essential to place each tag in <html> tag. Consider the following example of XML coding.
<html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml” lang=”en” xml:lang=”en”>
…
</html>
…
</html>
How to declare the Website Language in Blogger
Step 1: Go To Blogger.com >> Theme >> Edit HTML.
Step 2: In Theme, search for <html>
Step 3: Paste the following coding next to it.
lang=”en-US” xml:lang=”en-US“
After pasting the above coding in your Theme it looks like the given following.
<html lang=”en-US” xml:lang=”en-US” b:version=’2′ class=’v2′ expr:dir=’data:blog.languageDirection’ xmlns=’http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml’ xmlns:b=’http://www.google.com/2005/gml/b’ xmlns:data=’http://www.google.com/2005/gml/data’ xmlns:expr=’http://www.google.com/2005/gml/expr’>
Step 4: After this Click on “Save Theme”.
Congratulation! you have done it successfully.
Final Word:
It is a very useful tag to improve your SEO score. When you crawl your website by any SEO tool it will show you website language.
If your website has not a language you can put the above coding in your blog Theme.
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You can also use hreflang tag