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Create-and-Add-Custom-Robots.txt-File-on-Blogger-Site

  • Incorrect use of this feature can result in your blog being ignored by search engines. We will make sure it is done correctly by testing it.
  • Custom robots.txt is a way for you to instruct the search engine that you don’t want it to crawl certain pages of your blog.
  • “Crawl” means that crawlers, like Googlebot, go through your content, and index it so that other people can find it when they search for it.
  • Go to blogger.com
  • Open the blog you’re are working with
  • Click on settings
  • Click on Search Preferences
  • Under the heading ‘Crawlers and indexing’, you will see ‘Custom robots.txt’
  • Click ‘Edit’
  • Select ‘Yes’ to Enable Custom robots.txt content
Create-and-Add-Custom-Robots.txt-File-on-Blogger-Site
  •  Replace ‘EXAMPLE’ with your blog URL
  • Click ‘Save Changes’
  • Now go to your webmasters account and give it a test
Code
    User-agent: Mediapartners-Google Disallow: User-agent: * Disallow: /search Allow: / Sitemap: http://myblog.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?orderby=UPDATED




  • all: index and follow the links.
  • noindex: prevent indexing of the page.
  • nofollow: prevents the Googlebot to follow the links on this page.
  • none: shortcut to noindex, nofollow, noarchive.
  • noarchive: prevents Google to display the link associated with Cached page.
  • nosnippet: prevents the display of an extract in the search results. Therefore indicates to use the page title (and in some cases the sitelinks) only (Google, Yahoo!)
  • noodp: prevents the use of a replacement drawn description of ODP websites / DMOZ.
  • notranslate: prevents translation of your pages in search results.
  • noimageindex: Specifies that you do not want your page to appear as the source of an image appearing in Google search results.
  • unavailable_after: [date]: lets you specify the exact time and date that the crawling and indexing of this page must stop.
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