Blogger is one free platform which everyone one of us love. By default, your blog will not be Search Engine friendly. This post will provide you some information on search engine optimize of your Blogger blog using Google Webmasters Tool.
- Go to Google Webmasters Tool
- Click on Add a site and enter your URL
- Get your Verification Meta tag. Copy it.
4) Go to your Blogger Dashboard –> Layout –> Edit HTML. Add your meta tag after <head>. If you get some errors add </meta> after this tag.
5) Go to Site Configurations –> Sitemaps
Add “feeds/posts/default”
If this doesn’t work, try “feeds/posts/default?redirect=false”
6) Now back to Google webmasters tool. Click on Site Configuration –> Crawler Access –> Remove URL tab.
You have remove all your archive pages to avoid duplicate content.
Click on “New removal Request” and then on “Individual URLs: web pages, images, or other files”
Your archive pages will be like these.
http://www.yoursite.blogspot.com/YEAR_MONTH_01_archive.html
For example: June 2009 – http://www.suhastech.co.cc/2009_06_01_archive.html
Add archive pages from all your blogging months.
7) Now, Goto Site Configuration –> Settings
Add “showComment” in the Parameter Box and select “Ignore”
This is remove Comment pages which avoid Duplicate pages.
If you have some more to add, please feel free to add in your comment.
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Thanks, I know most of this but removing archive and contents are new to me, I will try to do this
nice post buddy. very useful for SEO .
each step is easy to follow in this article nice update
is this only for Blogspot users or can Wordpress users take help from it
Great info harsh ….
, i was unaware of archive part of webmaster process …
You can obviously use this for wordpress (In the end, its a website!) but you can easily select “No Follow” while posting on WP. (I think archive pages are set to No follow by default)
Blogger users are devoid of this. So, they have to use this.
great post friend i am using blogspot.It is helpful for me….
great post harsh..
First of all thanks for the post Suhas it is very helpful
I have few questions to which I need answer
1. How can you say the process helps in SEO of blogspot blog?
2. The status is mentioned as pending!! How much time will it take in removal of page.
3 cheers for this post.
1) This process avoids duplicate content (duplicate content = Low search engine ranking)
2) They say, it can take about 90 days to remove it
3) Thanks
Suhas can you explain in a more detail how Step 5 is going to help for BlogSpot users? and how significant is it for SEO?
Hi Mohit,
FromWiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Site_map
A site map (or sitemap) is a list of pages of a web site accessible to crawlers . This helps search engine bots find pages on the site.
So, your pages will easily accessible.
I think that should clear your doubt.
Suhas
Suhas, I mentioned the wrong Step No.
I wanted to know abt ur Step 6, how does removing of archive page will help? and how important is it in SEO?
Hi Mohit,
Here are some links which will help you,
Official Link – http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=66359
SEO Journal – http://www.searchenginejournal.com/duplicate-content-penalty-how-to-lose-google-ranking-fast/1886/
Cheers,
Suhas
Suhas I have tried removing the archived URLs but it was Denied by Google. With ref to http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=156412 plz tell me the solution
Hello Suhas,
Great post !!
But I also faced the same problem as Mohit above. The request was denied and the reason given is http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=63757&hl=en
Please tell how to resolve this issue ?
Hi,
First of all, sorry for the late reply. I’ll try to resolve. I need a little time.
Thanks,
Suhas
@Mohit and Anshul
Here’s a fix I could find out..
http://www.suhastech.com/2010/01/archive-duplicate-content-blogspot.html
Great post, have been having huge problems with archives causing duplicate content. Finally solved after reading your post! Thanks!
its really good and informative site. thanks