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Blogspot SEO Guide using Google Webmasters tools

by Suhas on December 14, 2009

in Blogspot

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.

  1. Go to Google Webmasters Tool
  2. Click on Add a site and enter your URL

Add site

  • Get your Verification Meta tag. Copy it.

Meta tag

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”

sitemap

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.

Remove url Confirm

7) Now, Goto Site Configuration –> Settings

Add “showComment” in the Parameter Box and select “Ignore”

showComment

This is remove Comment pages which avoid Duplicate pages.

If you have some more to add, please feel free to add in your comment.

This is a guest post by Suhas, who writes at Suhastech. If you want to write for Shoutmeloud, Do read Shoutmeloud revenue Sharing program.

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{ 24 comments… read them below or add one }

1 Tinh December 14, 2009 at 07:29

Thanks, I know most of this but removing archive and contents are new to me, I will try to do this

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2 khalid December 14, 2009 at 07:46

nice post buddy. very useful for SEO .

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3 Gurpreet Singh December 14, 2009 at 14:47

each step is easy to follow in this article nice update

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4 IndianCashMaker December 14, 2009 at 17:53

is this only for Blogspot users or can Wordpress users take help from it

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5 sharma December 14, 2009 at 20:17

Great info harsh ….
, i was unaware of archive part of webmaster process …

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6 Suhas December 14, 2009 at 21:11

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.

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7 ajeet | hackingtrick.com December 14, 2009 at 22:33

great post friend i am using blogspot.It is helpful for me….

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8 Rajiv M December 16, 2009 at 10:35

great post harsh..

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9 latestphonereviews December 17, 2009 at 13:19

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.

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10 Suhas December 18, 2009 at 10:11

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

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11 Mohit Prabhat December 21, 2009 at 13:57

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?

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12 Suhas December 21, 2009 at 19:23

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

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13 Mohit Prabhat December 23, 2009 at 11:41

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?

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14 Suhas December 24, 2009 at 18:03
15 Mohit Prabhat January 1, 2010 at 14:08

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

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16 anshul January 4, 2010 at 15:35

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 ?

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17 Suhas January 13, 2010 at 17:04

Hi,

First of all, sorry for the late reply. I’ll try to resolve. I need a little time.

Thanks,
Suhas

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18 Suhas January 16, 2010 at 21:34

@Mohit and Anshul

Here’s a fix I could find out..
http://www.suhastech.com/2010/01/archive-duplicate-content-blogspot.html

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19 Calle January 23, 2010 at 17:48

Great post, have been having huge problems with archives causing duplicate content. Finally solved after reading your post! Thanks!

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20 sonali sen February 25, 2010 at 17:13

its really good and informative site. thanks

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21 Junald April 23, 2010 at 09:46

WOw! This is what I am looking for a long time! Thank you!

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22 N.T.L May 15, 2010 at 13:11

I can’t do “remove all your archive pages to avoid duplicate content”. All of them are denied.

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23 Suhas May 17, 2010 at 11:01

I had actually requested the admin (@harsh) to update this post but he didn’t reply. I’m just a guest poster.

Anyways, here’s the fix (read my previous comment),
http://www.suhastech.com/2010/01/archive-duplicate-content-blogspot.html

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24 Tùng Lâm May 19, 2010 at 15:27

If i do like your following, should i “remove all your archive pages to avoid duplicate content”?

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