How To Configure Custom Robots Header Tags On Blogger To Increase Traffic

 

Custom Robots Header Tags guide search engine robots like to which content(posts, images, pages, search pages, description) to index or list on search results. From SEO point of view it is not a good practice to allow unnecessary content or sections of a website to be crawled or list in search engines because it effects the performance of website.

It is pretty simple to enable and configure Custom Robots Header Tags on Blogger. In this tutorial you will step-by-step to how to configure the Custom Robots Header Tags on Blogger.

• Open Blogger Dashboard.
• Click Settings.
• Scroll down to "Crawlers and indexing" section.
  
• Enable custom robots header tags by moving the slider towards right. 

• Click "Home page tags".
• Enable "all".
• Enable "noodp".
• Click SAVE.
  

• Click "Archive and search page tags".
• Enable "noindex".
• Click SAVE.

• Click "Post and page tags".
• Enable "all".
• Enable "noodp".
• Click SAVE.

Explanation Of Directives

• all: There are no restrictions for indexing or serving. This directive is the default value and has no effect if explicitly listed.
• noodp: noodp means No Open Directory Project. The benefit of using noodp tag is that you can avoid search engines from choosing random description. This affects the SEO of your webpage. Noodp tag inform Google what is relevant for the page.
• noindex: Do not show this page in search results. From SEO point of view search pages are unnecessary to be listed on search engines. For instance on Blogger when you click a Label you see a search in that URL like "https://www.meersworld.net/ search /label/Blogger. So here in Archive and Search pages section we have ticked noindex, means Search Engines will not list such URLs having /search/ on Blogger.

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