How to Configure Search Preferences in Blogger

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[font=Roboto,]Search engine optimization ([size=small][font=Roboto,]SEO[/font]) is very important for your blog. If you make your blog search engine friendly, then you must get more traffic than regular. Blogger included this feature as you can set —[/font][/size]
  • [font=Roboto,]Search or Meta Description.[/font]
  • [font=Roboto,]Custom Page Not Found.[/font]
  • [font=Roboto,]Custom Redirects.[/font]
  • [font=Roboto,]Custom robots.txt.[/font]
  • [font=Roboto,]Custom robots header tags.[/font]
[font=Roboto,]Go to Search Preferences[/font]
  1. [font=Roboto,]Sign in to Blogger with your Google Email and Password.[/font]
  2. [font=Roboto,]Click the Down arrow [img=7x4]http://www.egtutorial.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Down-Arrow-Icon.png[/img] in the top left, then choose your blog.[/font]
  3. [font=Roboto,]In the left menu, click Settings > Search preferences.[/font]
[font=Roboto,]Meta Tags Setting[/font]
[font=Roboto,]Enable Search Description[/font]
[font=Roboto,]Choose [size=small][font=Roboto,]“Yes”[/font] to enable your blog’s search description. Write a description about your blog up to [font=Roboto,]150 characters[/font] maximum. [font=Roboto,]Search engines[/font] usually use the [font=Roboto,]meta description[/font] of a page in their [font=Roboto,]search results snippets[/font] like the image below —[/font][/size]
[font=Roboto,][img=610x178]http://www.egtutorial.com/wp-conten...search-result-snippet.png[/img][/font][/SIZE]
[font=Roboto,]Enabling this feature will allow you to add [size=small][font=Roboto,]Search description[/font] for every post in the [font=Roboto,]Post Editor[/font]. Make sure the description is truly descriptive and keywords based are related to the content. To count characters, you can use this [font=Roboto,]LetterCount[/font] tool.[/font]
[font=Roboto,][img=275x177]http://www.egtutorial.com/wp-conten...h-or-Meta-Description.png[/img][/font][/SIZE]
[font=Roboto,]Find Search Description[/font]​
[font=Roboto,]The meta or search descriptions aren’t displayed in the pages the user sees. If you are curious to see where the meta description actually goes, then —[/font]
  1. [font=Roboto,]Make sure you published a post with Search Description.[/font]
  2. [font=Roboto,]Open the page in a Browser new tab (Google Chrome, Firefox).[/font]
  3. [font=Roboto,]Right-click on the page or press [size=small][font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Ctrl[/font]+[font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Shift[/font]+[font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]I[/font].[/font]
  1. [font=Roboto,]Click arrow [img=127x13]http://www.egtutorial.com/wp-conten...ad-element-to-see-meta-description-.png[/img] to expand <head> element.[/font]
  2. [font=Roboto,]Find this <meta content=”The description you provided will appear here…” name=”description”>.[/font]
[font=Roboto,]Errors and Redirections[/font]
[font=Roboto,]Set Custom Page Not Found Message[/font]
[font=Roboto,]When visitors or readers try to access a page that doesn’t exist in your blog is called [size=small][font=Roboto,]404 error page[/font]. By default, a message [font=Roboto,]“Sorry, the page you were looking for in this blog does not exist.”[/font] will be displayed on the [font=Roboto,]Page Not Found page[/font].[/font][/size]
[font=Roboto,]You can set a custom message will be displayed on the page instead of generic message. You can enter [/font]
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 message and design the message with [/size]
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[font=Roboto,]Go to the 404 Error page[/font]​
[font=Roboto,]To find the [size=small][font=Roboto,]404 error page[/font], go to a link that doesn’t exist in your blog. For this, type some wrong characters after forward slash [font=Roboto,]“/”[/font] of your site url. An example link below —[/font][/size]
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http://example.blogspot.com/hfkjdhkj

  1. [font=Roboto,]Copy and paste the link in your Browser address bar.[/font]
  2. [font=Roboto,]Replace example with your blog address.[/font]
  3. [font=Roboto,]Hit [size=small][font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Enter[/font]. Now you should see the 404 error page.[/font][/size]
[font=Roboto,]An Example HTML Message for 404[/font]​
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"https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-yTKCZtKNDsY/WCIGnOnvF5I/AAAAAAAACfQ/ed-jeSK7mugnkMVPdOp1HjHXw84egCH3gCLcB/s1600/404-Error-Page-Banner.png"


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style

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"font-size: 18px;"

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>Sorry, the page you are looking for does not exist.</

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h3

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[font=Roboto,]Click Edit of [size=small][font=Roboto,]Custom Page Not Found[/font] option, then Copy and Paste the code in the text field.[/font][/size]
[font=Roboto,][img=509x517]http://www.egtutorial.com/wp-conten...error-message-preview.png[/img][/font][/SIZE]
[font=Roboto,]Set Custom Redirects[/font]
[font=Roboto,]If any page url doesn’t exist in your blog but readers still visit to that page. They obviously go to the [size=small][font=Roboto,]404 error page[/font] and can’t find the content they are looking for. To solve this problem, you should add a [font=Roboto,]custom redirect[/font] from that old url to a new url.[/font]
[font=Roboto,]Crawlers and indexing[/font]
[font=Roboto,]Set Custom robots.txt[/font]
[font=Roboto,]You can use the [size=small][font=Roboto,]robots.txt[/font] file to give instructions about your site to [font=Roboto,]web robots[/font]. By default, your blog uses it immediately after you created the blog. To check this file, go to http://example.blogspot.com/robots.txt.[/font][/size]
[font=Roboto,]You might see the file like below if your site is not visible to [size=small][font=Roboto,]Search engines[/font] —[/font][/size]
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User-agent: Mediapartners-Google

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Disallow:
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User-agent: *

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Disallow: /search

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Disallow: /
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User-Agent: googlebot

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Disallow: /search

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Allow: /

  • [font=Roboto,]User-agent: * — It means this section applies to all robots.[/font]
  • [font=Roboto,]Disallow: / — It tells the robot that it should not visit any pages on the site.[/font]
  • [font=Roboto,]Disallow: /search — It means the links having keyword search just after the blog address will be ignored. Therefore, a page url like http://example.blogspot.com/search/label/labelname will never be crawled or indexed.[/font]
  • [font=Roboto,]Allow: / — It means that the robot may crawl your homepage.[/font]
[font=Roboto,]You can generate a custom robots.txt file for your blog from [size=small][font=Roboto,]here[/font]http://ctrlq.org/blogger/. After generating the file —[/font][/size]
  1. [font=Roboto,]Click “Yes” to enable custom robots.txt content.[/font]
  2. [font=Roboto,]Copy and paste the generated code in this field.[/font]
  3. [font=Roboto,]Click Save changes.[/font]
[font=Roboto,]After a few moments, the file will be updated to this new code.[/font]
[font=Roboto,][img=724x210]http://www.egtutorial.com/wp-conten...ustom-robots-txt-file.png[/img][/font][/SIZE]
[font=Roboto,]Set Custom Robots Header tags[/font]
[font=Roboto,]You can customize your blog’s robots header tags for individual pages using this feature. To enable custom robots header tags —[/font]
  1. [font=Roboto,]Click Edit button[/font]
  2. [font=Roboto,]Select “Yes”[/font]
  3. [font=Roboto,]Click Save changes[/font]
[font=Roboto,]Once you’ve enabled it, you can see the custom robots tags is available for every post.[/font]
[font=Roboto,][img=218x438]http://www.egtutorial.com/wp-conten...Robots-Tags-for-Posts.png[/img][/font][/SIZE]
[font=Roboto,][size=small][font=Roboto,]Warning: Before using this feature you should have knowledge about Robots Header Tags. If you don’t know anything about it then I recommend you not to enable it.[/font][/font]
[font=Roboto,]Robots Header Tags with Meaning[/font]​
[font=Roboto,]Directive
Meaning[/font]
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all
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There are no restrictions for indexing or serving. Note: this directive is the default value and has no effect if explicitly listed.
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noindex
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Do not show this page in search results and do not show a “Cached” link in search results.[/size]
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nofollow
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Do not follow the links have been used on this page[/size]
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none
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noindex
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, [/size]
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nofollow

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noarchive
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Do not show a “Cached” link in search results.[/size]
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nosnippet
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Do not show a snippet (meta or search description) in the search results for this page[/size]
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noodp
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Do not use metadata from the Open Directory project for titles or snippets shown for this page.[/size]
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notranslate
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Do not offer translation of this page in search results.[/size]
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noimageindex
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Do not index images on this page[/size]
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unavailable_after
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: [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.[/size]
[font=Roboto,]Robots Header Tags Live Experiment[/font]​
[font=Roboto,]I am using [size=small][font=Roboto,]Chrome browser[/font] to see the robot header tags.[/font][/size]
  1. [font=Roboto,]Open Chrome and go to your site.[/font]
  2. [font=Roboto,]Right-click on the page, then click Inspect or press [size=small][font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Ctrl[/font]+[font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Shift[/font]+[font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]I[/font].[/font][/size]
  3. [font=Roboto,]Select the Network tab.[/font]
  4. [font=Roboto,]You may need to reload the page once again. Press [size=small][font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]F5[/font] to reload.[/font][/size]
  5. [font=Roboto,]Scroll up and click your site name (example: www.egtutorial.com).[/font]
  6. [font=Roboto,]If Custom robots header tags are enabled then you will see X-Robots-Tag like the image below.[/font]
[font=Roboto,][size=small][font=Roboto,][img=743x342]http://www.egtutorial.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Check-Robots-Header-Tags-with-Chrome.png[/img][/font]http://www.egtutorial.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Check-Robots-Header-Tags-with-Chrome.png[/font][/size]
 
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