Article Template Modification Shows How To Code The
Article Template To Include Meta tags and Google AdSense.
Plus add comments & auto-discovery to your articles, too!
Note: Before you begin, please be sure that you have read the tutorial, Understanding How The EasyBlogs Template Works so you can get around the different parts of your template.
Modifying Your Blog Template
Step 1. Open the Easy Blogs software and go to All My Blogs and then, click on Template Editor
article template modification
Step 2.
and select the
template from the list that you are currently using for your blog.
Step 3. Click on the "Article Pages" Tab on the left.
I. Add Meta tags & Auto-discovery
Step 1. Go to the "Start of Page" tab of the Articles Pages (be sure you are in the Article Pages of the template editor.
Step 2. Delete the lines that say:
<META Name="Description" Content=" ">
<META Name="Keywords" Content=" ">
Step 3. Insert the following 2 lines of code:
<meta name="keywords" content="[%thispage.metatag.keywords%]">
<meta name="description" content="[%thispage.metatag.description%]">
Step 4. Right below where you inserted the code in Step 3, insert your auto discovery code using the following steps:
Step 4a. Copy and paste the below code into Notepad or some
other HTML editor (don't use WORD!):
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Title
of Your Blog" href="http://www.mysbisite.com/rss.xml">
Step 4b. Modify the red sections of the code to fit your website.
Step 4c. Copy the modified code into your template right below where you inserted the code in Step 3 above.
When done, it will look like this:
article template modification
Click Save 
in the top menu bar to save
your insertions.
II. Add AdSense
To add the AdSense code to your article, go to the "Article" tab of the "Articles Pages" section of the template editor.
article template modification
Insert the code from your AdSense account between the ADSENSE markers using the 300 X 250 med rectangle for best results.
Click Save in the top menu bar to save
your insertions.
III. Add Haloscan comments code
(If you have not created your Haloscan account, please see this tutorial before proceeding.)
Step 1. Go to the "Start of Page" tab of the "Articles Pages" part of the template editor find the markers to paste Code 1 into the template between the markers:
<!--INSERT HALOSCAN CODE 1 - start -->
<!--INSERT HALOSCAN CODE 1 - end -->
Note: Code 1 looks like this except the red code which is your Haloscan id:
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.haloscan.com/load/yourid"> </script>
Note: You may copy the code here but be sure to replace "yourid" with our Haloscan id.
article template modification
Step 2. Go to the "End of Page" tab of the Article Pages part of the template editor and insert the modified version of Code 2 (found below) inside the markers that say, as follows:
<!--INSERT HALOSCAN CODE 2 - start -->
<!--INSERT HALOSCAN CODE 2 - end -->
Copy and Paste this code in between the markers
for CODE 2: (do not alter this code in any way)
<a href="javascript:HaloScan('[%entry.date.words%]');"
target="_self"><script type="text/javascript">postCount('[%entry.date.words%]');</script></a>
article template modification
Click Save in the top menu bar to save
your insertions.
NOW------- Go to the tutorial,
How To Create Articles In Easy Blogs That Are Fully Search Engine
Optimized and Ready For RSS Syndication! to Setup your
Settings....very important so don't miss this step!
Have you added the meta tags feature
to your default pages? Find the tutorial to add meta tags to your default
pages is
here.
| All template modifications require that you: a)
re-publish, re-generate your pages in the blog software |
That wraps up Article Template Modification SBI Rss Tutorial. To get the full tutorial look here.
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