It takes time for the search engine crawlers to crawl your blog if you do not declare your site's language. Declaring language is helpful for crawlers to index your blog's content easily with speed. Besides if search engine crawlers can't understand your site's language, it will listed in bad category. Then your site's contents aren't going to be visible in the search result. Though many blogging platform has built in language declaring feature, Blogger doesn't provide us with such advantages. So, we need to declare blogger language manually.
How to declare language in blogger:
Step-1: Go to Blogger Dashboard >> Template >> Edit HTML
Step-2: Search for <html using Ctrl+F.
Step-3: Add the below code just after <html
lang="en-US" xml:lang="en-US"So, the whole code will look like the below codes:
<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'>
ISO 639-1 Language Codes:
Language | ISO Code |
---|---|
Abkhazian | ab |
Afar | aa |
Afrikaans | af |
Albanian | sq |
Amharic | am |
Arabic | ar |
Aragonese | an |
Armenian | hy |
Assamese | as |
Aymara | ay |
Azerbaijani | az |
Bashkir | ba |
Basque | eu |
Bengali (Bangla) | bn |
Bhutani | dz |
Bihari | bh |
Bislama | bi |
Breton | br |
Bulgarian | bg |
Burmese | my |
Byelorussian (Belarusian) | be |
Cambodian | km |
Catalan | ca |
Cherokee | |
Chewa | |
Chinese (Simplified) | zh |
Chinese (Traditional) | zh |
Corsican | co |
Croatian | hr |
Czech | cs |
Danish | da |
Divehi | |
Dutch | nl |
Edo | |
English | en |
Esperanto | eo |
Estonian | et |
Faeroese | fo |
Farsi | fa |
Fiji | fj |
Finnish | fi |
Flemish | |
French | fr |
Frisian | fy |
Fulfulde | |
Galician | gl |
Gaelic (Scottish) | gd |
Gaelic (Manx) | gv |
Georgian | ka |
German | de |
Greek | el |
Greenlandic | kl |
Guarani | gn |
Gujarati | gu |
Haitian Creole | ht |
Hausa | ha |
Hawaiian | |
Hebrew | he, iw |
Hindi | hi |
Hungarian | hu |
Ibibio | |
Icelandic | is |
Ido | io |
Igbo | |
Indonesian | id, in |
Interlingua | ia |
Interlingue | ie |
Inuktitut | iu |
Inupiak | ik |
Irish | ga |
Italian | it |
Japanese | ja |
Javanese | jv |
Kannada | kn |
Kanuri | |
Kashmiri | ks |
Kazakh | kk |
Kinyarwanda (Ruanda) | rw |
Kirghiz | ky |
Kirundi (Rundi) | rn |
Konkani | |
Korean | ko |
Kurdish | ku |
Laothian | lo |
Latin | la |
Latvian (Lettish) | lv |
Limburgish ( Limburger) | li |
Lingala | ln |
Lithuanian | lt |
Macedonian | mk |
Malagasy | mg |
Malay | ms |
Malayalam | ml |
Maltese | mt |
Maori | mi |
Marathi | mr |
Moldavian | mo |
Mongolian | mn |
Nauru | na |
Nepali | ne |
Norwegian | no |
Occitan | oc |
Oriya | or |
Oromo (Afaan Oromo) | om |
Papiamentu | |
Pashto (Pushto) | ps |
Polish | pl |
Portuguese | pt |
Punjabi | pa |
Quechua | qu |
Rhaeto-Romance | rm |
Romanian | ro |
Russian | ru |
Sami (Lappish) | |
Samoan | sm |
Sangro | sg |
Sanskrit | sa |
Serbian | sr |
Serbo-Croatian | sh |
Sesotho | st |
Setswana | tn |
Shona | sn |
Sichuan Yi | ii |
Sindhi | sd |
Sinhalese | si |
Siswati | ss |
Slovak | sk |
Slovenian | sl |
Somali | so |
Spanish | es |
Sundanese | su |
Swahili (Kiswahili) | sw |
Swedish | sv |
Syriac | |
Tagalog | tl |
Tajik | tg |
Tamazight | |
Tamil | ta |
Tatar | tt |
Telugu | te |
Thai | th |
Tibetan | bo |
Tigrinya | ti |
Tonga | to |
Tsonga | ts |
Turkish | tr |
Turkmen | tk |
Twi | tw |
Uighur | ug |
Ukrainian | uk |
Urdu | ur |
Uzbek | uz |
Venda | |
Vietnamese | vi |
Volap�k | vo |
Wallon | wa |
Welsh | cy |
Wolof | wo |
Xhosa | xh |
Yi | |
Yiddish | yi, ji |
Yoruba | yo |
Zulu | zu |