How to Enable and Customize Blogger Robots.txt File?

Hi ! In this tutorial I am going to show you how to edit your Blogger blog robots.txt file. Webmasters use custom robots.txt file to control search engine web robots (also known as Web Wanderers, Crawlers, or Spiders) to crawl some directories and web pages or links of website or blog. when we take settings robots.txt file in blogger then search engine automatically index or remove pages from search engine according to the settings. 

By default each website allows the Search engines robots however if you would like to restricts the robots either to not crawl any bound directory, file or the complete website then you may want the robots.txt file in which you've got to write instructions for search engine bots.

Steps to edit robots.txt on blogger

Your Site Settings › Search preferences › Crawlers and indexing  

Here you will able to see two options Custom robots.txt and Custom robots header tags.These two
 options would offer you the flexibility to customise your robot.txt file.In the last post i told you about
Custom robots header tags.

Now press edit button which is present after  'Custom robots.txt' option. After pressing on edit button
you can see a message " Enable custom robots.txt content? " so press "Yes" and proceed to next step.

Now you can see  text area, type the content which you want to exclude a content from crawling.
Click on Save Changes button.

You are done!
How to block Link from search engines?
No, you have to write the URL. For example, if your want to stop robots from crawling this URL
(www.bloggerknown.blogspot.com/p/about.html) then, in the robot.txt file you will enter this command.

User-agent: *Disallow: p/about.html

Your robots.txt file located under your main blogspot directory as for Blogger Known its located on the following url:

http://www.bloggerknown.blogspot.com/robots.txt

By default blogger robots.txt contains the following content:

User-agent: Mediapartners-Google
Disallow:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /search
Allow: /
Sitemap: http://bloggerknown.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?orderby=UPDATED

I know this post is not a new thing but I hope it might help many newbies to understand the importance of robots.txt.

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How to Setup Custom Robots Header Tags for Better SEO

Blogger is continuously improving search preference feature, Add Custom Robots Header Tags are very important for every blogger  for batter SEO. Today tutorial i tell you how to enable custom robots header tags in blogger. You have to be careful to setup custom robots text because if you do something wrong Google not index your page in search engine. Follow the instructions carefully and it'll positively help you to boost your web site traffic.

Step 1: To enable these tags, go to Blogger > Settings > Search Preferences, click Edit next to "Custom robots header tags," and select Yes.

Step 2: Select Yes Option and customize setting shown in the below image.

You must learn about tags when should you use them.
all:  There are no restrictions for indexing or serving. This is default for all pages
noindex:  Do not show this page in search results and do not show a "Cached" link in search results.
nofollow:  Do not follow the links on this page
none:  Equivalent to noindex, nofollow
noarchive:  Do not show a "Cached" link in search results.
nosnippet:  Do not show a snippet in the search results for this page
noodp:  Do not use metadata from the Open Directory project (DMOZ) for titles or snippets shown for this page.
notranslate:  Do not offer translation of this page in other languages in search results.
noimageindex:  Do not index images on this page.
unavailable_after: [RFC-850 date/time]: Do not show this page in search results after the specified date/time. The date/time must be specified in the RFC 850 format. Example: 17 May 2012 15:00:00 PST

Step 3: Now click on ""Save changes" button > Done

That's all! If you have any doubt or need help about it, please leave comment.

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SEO Guidelines For New Website/Blogger

Today I am going to tell you some best ways how to improve your blog ranking on Search engine, Alexa-Rank and Google Page Rank. this is basic information about SEO next time we lunch complete course about SEO pack for blog so please subscribe our blog and join our community for learn best things about blogging .

1. How to improve search engine Visibility?

Improving search engine Visibility is that the #1 target of each websites to make it on the highest of each Search Engines results page and it isn't only depending on 1 criteria, rather it is a combination of Back-links  Page-rank  web traffic/impressions, uniqueness, and content quality of a website.

Here are some ways we can increase search engine visibility.

• Use SEO Optimized Blogger Templates
• Submit your Websites to Search Engines
• Submit Website Sitemap To Webmaster Tools
• Display Author image in Google Search Results
• Use robots.txt
• Complete How to Increase Search Engine Visibility?

2. What is Alexa and how to improve it?

Alexa shows your site's current estimated position and rank on the internet. to improve your Alexa, you need to have many Back-links  high Page-rank  and thousands of internet traffic/impressions. Alexa doesn't update in real time and usually takes three months to detect your true rank.

Here are some ways we can increase Alexa page rank.

• Claim your site on Alexa
• Install Alexa Widget on your site
• Write a review about Alexa on your blog
• Install Alexa Toolbar on your browser
• Build quality back links
• Ask users to write a review on Alexa

3. What is Page Rank and how to improve it?

Unlike Alexa, Page-rank only shows your site's current estimated position on the web. to improve it, you need to have a lot of Back-links and articles. Like Alexa, Page-rank does not update in real time.

Here are some ways we can increase Google Page Rank.

• Write high quality content 
• Submit Your Site to web and article Directories
• Use Link Exchange Program to increase back links.
• Keep updating your site/blog everyday
• Use Social Bookmarking button to share you site on social sites
• Website Advertising
• Commenting On Other Blogs and Websites

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