Custom Robots Header Tags For Blogger

All old bloggers are alerted that google changed the interface of blogger with new one and including new crawlers and indexing functions special for SEO to increase the popularity of blogger platform. We see that most of the bloggers uses blogger platform but they do not know about the new features which provides amazing indexing functions and tools specials for SEO that is called "Search Preferences" which consist of several parts but here we only need to enable "custom robots header tags" which will help to make our blog more seo friendly. So in this article i will show you how to enable custom robots header tags but be careful while doing any changes because it may be proved dangerous for google crawlers in result however it may not index your blog post if you do something wrong.

Custom Robots.txt file For Blogger

How To Enable Robots Header Tags In Blogger

In order to know how to enable this feature in blogger lets see the following steps mentioned below with screen shots and then discuss each one with detail:
Go To Blogger Dashboard:
Go To Setting>>>Search Prefrences>>>Custom Robots header tags:

Click>>>Edit>>>Yes:
Then check all the boxes thats given in the screenshot.

In the screenshot you will see that we checked the necessary options and the rest of other are not important for blogger blog. You see that we have only checked the options All & Noodp for home page. next we have checked the options Noindex & Noodp Archive and Search pages. And the last one we checked All & Noodp for single posts. Now it will be discussed one by one what they all mean:

ALL: This attribute means no restriction for indexing it is always default for all pages. It will crawl and index all the contents inside the page.

Noindex: This attribute means not to show this page in search result or in another word we say that it tells the search robots not to index the whole page.

Nofollow: This attribute indicate and tells the crawler robot not to follow any links on this page.

None: This attribute is Equivalent to noindex and nofollow, it gives signal to robot not to index any page & links

Noarchive: This attribute means not to show "cached" links in search result.

Nosnippet: This attribute means not to show a snippet for this page in search result.

Noodp: This attribute means not to use metadata from the open directory project (dmoz) and do not show title and snippets for this page.

Notranslate: This attribute means not to show translation option in others language in search result for this page.

Noimageindex: This attribute means not to index image in search result for this page.

Unavailable_after: This attribute ordered to the search robot not to show this page in search result after specified date/time.

So we have discussed each attribute in detail and checked all the necessary option above in the screenshot  Now go forward and take idea for your blog/website on how to deal with your contents on your blog. I will suggest you to use the above method if you want to increase traffic on your blog but if there is something personal or not to index in search result then you can use the following attributes.

Noindex if your want to hide any page from search engine result. Noimageindex if you want to hide personal or secrets image in search result. Unavailable_after can be used for specific time and it will be unavailable after specified time and date, you can use it for Christmas Day, Eid day and Happy New Year Greetings in your post which after some time will be no more.

Analyze Your Thought: Now it all depends on you, what can be proved best for your blog while using them think about your blog and what it needs. But if you only do it for SEO to increase your blog traffic then only checke the above necessary options which is show in the screenshots.