As a Blogspot user now you don’t need to add Meta Tags by editing
your blog template, ALT and Image tags
by some tricky methods and more that you used to add manually. Blogger added the Meta Tags, Alt tags for
Images, Customize Robots.txt, Redirects and Customize 404 Not Found Page
option.
By this Search Preferences now you can easily customize your
404 error pages with your own custom message, add meta tags for your each blog
post and homepage as well, add ALT tags on your images and edit your robots.txt
file as you want for better search preferences.
Only by the some SEO option Blogger blog was not consider as
good as wordpress. But not anymore now, Blogger is now up to the mark and has
great features that lets you allow to customize your search preferences more
effectively.
What’s New in Blogger?
Here is the an overview of what all the new option Blogger has added to it’s settings.
#1.
Meta Description for Blog Homepage
#2.
Meta Description for Individual Post
#3. ALT and
Title tags for Images
#4. Custom
404 Error Page
#5. Custom Redirects
#6. Custom
Robots.txt
#7. Custom
Robots Header Tags
How to Configure Search Preferences in Blogger/Blogspot
The new Search Preferences option is only available in new
updated Blogger version. To enable this option for your blog Follow the step
below.
Loging to your Blogger account > Select Blog >
Settings > Search Preferences.
Check out the picture how it looks.
Meta Description For Search Engine
This is the basic description about your blog that will be
visible on search results of your blog’s Home page like this picture below.
Meta Description
should be a short description about your Blog and max 150 charaters in length.
This is necessary if you want to enable meta description for individual posts.
Meta Description For Individual Post
This is one of best feature Blogger has added. Now you can
easily add meta description for each and every individual post. You can add meta description for each post
while creating or editing the blog post. Click the Search Description on right
side under the post Settings and enter the small description about your post.
Check this picture below.
ALT and Title tags for Images
The ALT and Title tag is very important for indexing images
into Google. Only ALT and Title tags implanted images are easily indexed by
Google Images bots or Other Images Bots. You must have ALT and Title tag to
every images on your blog. Here’s how you can set the ALT and Title tags to
image from the posts editor.
Step#1. Upload the
images to your blog Post Editor.
Step#2. Click on the
Image you want to set ALT and Title tags.
Step#3. A small menu
will appear below the image now click on properties option.
Step#4. Set the title
text and alt text in the dialog box appeared and click on OK button.
Custom 404 Error Page
This Custom 404 Error Page is one of the most awaited
feature by Google and time to say Bye bye to Blogger default Error Page not
found page. A 404 Not Found Page usually appears when visitor lands on a page
that does not exist on your blog or URL mistake. Now you can easily add Custom 404 Not Found
pages to your Error Pages. Check this picture below how you can set a custom
404 page.
Custom Redirects
Custom redirects is also a great feature added to Blogger.
It is useful when you want to redirect your visitors to another page from the
page that is not exist now. It works as a 302 temporary redirect when you set
this option for redirecting visitors.
To enable page redirection in your blog click on “New
Redirect” and add the broken link URL in the first box and add the new link in
the second box where you want to redirect your visitor. Check this picture
below.
Nofollow Attribute Within Post
It is good to add “rel=nofollow” attribute to each and every
external links from your blog to avoid giving link juice. Whenever you add
external links from your blog post don’t forget to click on “Add rel = nofollow
attribute” for proper SEO advantage. Check this picture below.
Custom Robots.txt
Robots.txt file helps you allow or block the search engine
Robots to Crawl/index the pages. Now you can control what content you want to
crawl or ignore by search engine. Not only this now you can use the robots.txt
file to block search engines from crawling different parts of your blog like
pages, archives, tags. You can also add
sitemap URL to BlogSpot’s robots.txt file for indexing. You can access the
robots.txt file of any blog by visiting this url (http://yourblog.blogspot.com/robot.txt)
Warning!! If you don’t have much knowledge about this, never
try to changing or Modifiying this file because it can effect the search engine
visibility.
Warning!! Changing or Modifying the Robots Header Option may
effect your Blog visibility in Search engine.
This is Robot tags is for control the search engine Robots
means Allow or Block the Robots. By visiting Crawlers and indexing section in
Search Preference tab you can set the Robots tags to Home Page, Archive/label
pages and Post page. Check out this picture.
Custom Robots Tags for Individual Posts
Now you can also customize the custom Robots Header tag for
each and every individual post while creating or editing post. Check this
picture.
Here is the table explain the meaning of Each Custom robots
header tags.
Directive
|
Meaning
|
All
|
There are no restrictions for indexing or serving.
Note: this directive is the default value and has no effect if explicitly
listed.
|
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
for titles or snippets shown for this page.
|
Notranslate
|
Do not offer translation of this page 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
|
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