30 May 2016

How To Add Custom Robots Header Tags Settings In Blogger

Custom Robots Header Tags are the most advanced features in blogger blogs. This tool helps us to pick what part of our blog should enable from Advanced Search Preferences. If you can perfectly use Custom Robots Header Tags in option in settings Blog directs robots can index all enable pages.

Custom Robots Header Tags and Purpose

In Blogger, you are going to deal with the following custom robots header tags.

1. all – If you set this tag, crawlers are not bound by any constraints. They can freely crawl, index and expose your content.
2. noindex – Not all the blogs are for public notice. Even if you don’t share the URL of your personal blog with anybody, chances are people will come to it from search results. On such a scenario, you can use noindex tag as it prevents search engines from indexing the pages.

3. nofollow – All links on the page containing this directive will be treated as nofollow. The page will be indexed but the linked pages will not be crawled. Note that if there is another web page somewhere on the internet having links to those pages marked as nofollow by you, then those pages will be crawled. The nofollow directive simply states that ‘Do not index the linked pages because I have linked to them. But, if someone else has linked to them and has not marked them as nofollow, then you are free to index them’.

4. none –
none combines the features of both noindex and nofollow tags. The crawlers will neither index your pages nor skim through the links.

5. noarchive –
You might have noticed a cached label with most of the website links on SERPs. It shows that Google has captured a copy of your site into their server to display in case it goes down. That being said, the noarchive tag turns off cached version in search pages.

6. nosnippet – The text snippets in search results help people find what’s on the webpage. If you want to keep the content exclusive, you can turn this header tag on.

7. noodp – Open Directory Project or Dmoz is a man-made directory of websites. Google use the information from there sometimes. You can turn it off with this tag if you want to.

8. notranslate – Do you want to disable translation on your site? Then use notranslate for the exact purpose.

9. noimageindex – If you allow, the images on that page will not be indexed. This is similar to nofollow tag. If the same image is present on some other page, then that image may be indexed.

10. unavailable_after –
In Blogger, you will get a field right to this tag. So, the webpage will be deindexed after this time.

Setup Custom Robots Header Tags in Blogspot

At First you need to enable this option from your blogger settings.
  •     Log into your blogger account.
  •     Now start to Settings >> Search Preference
add-costom-robots-tags-in-bloggerClick on the edit link under the Custom Robots Header Tags section as shown in under screenshot.


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    Once you click on the edit link you will see many options. Simply tick on the options which shown in the below image.

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  •     Now click on ''Save Changes'' button.
  •     finally you are done.

Bottom Line

 Incorrect use of robot tags can affect the performance of your site in search results. These options should be used only if you are completely sure of what you are doing. Generally, a normal blogger wouldn’t be requiring these options.

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