It seems blogger/blogspot are providing some advance options to there users. Recently they introduce Threaded Comments. And Now Blogger Introduce New Advanced SEO Options like Redirection, Robots.txt, Meta Tag . The big changes include the option to easily add a blog description that search engines will crawl allowing you to tell them what your blog is about, even the better is the option to add a short description to each individual post. Adding tags to your images has been made easier so they will perform better in search results and there is also a few more complicated options.
We always says that WordPress CMS is best for SEO but now Blogger are also providing some advance features to there blogspot users. By adding new SEO features in BlogSpot, Google have fixed the SEO difference by a great extent.
How To Enable The Search Preference Option
This option is only Available in New Blogger UI Dashboard. to Enable the Options
Go to New Blogger Dashboard > Select the Blog
Select the Settings Tab > Search Preference
Blogger Added the Following Options
- Search Meta Description
- Custom Post Meta Description
- Custom 404 Error Page
- Redirects
- Custom
Robots.txt - Custom Robots Header Tags
- Alt and Title tags for Images
Search Description
This is the General Description for Home Page to Optimize Home page/Blog and this Description is Visible on Search Results of Home page.
Search Description Should be a Short Description about your Blog and Max 150 Characters in Length.
Custom Post Meta Description
his is the Custom Post Meta Description for Each and Every Individual Post. You can Set and Customize the Each Post Description While Creating or Editing the post area.
Custom 404 Error Page
Also available is the ability to add a custom “Page Not Found” (eg. a “404”) message, and Custom Redirects for pages on your blog.
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We hope you enjoy the new features. It’s all part of our effort to bring you a much improved and modernized Blogger.
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nice tips. I’m first
Do you know do this in joomla.
In article, i leaved description in metadat but on search result did not match
We don’t about Joomla. You can search on google about this..
Hey Ammar Ali, I have a question to ask you one thing that,
What is robots.txt ?
The Robot Exclusion Standard, also known as the Robots Exclusion Protocol or robots.txt protocol, is a convention to prevent cooperating web crawlers and other web robots from accessing all or part of a website which is otherwise publicly viewable. Robots are often used by search engines to categorize and archive web sites, or by webmasters to proofread source code. The standard is different from, but can be used in conjunction with, Sitemaps, a robot inclusion standard for websites.
robots.txt is very useful as we can set the visibility of the articles in search engines, it helps to determine whether the articles will be indexed by search engines or not. It must be handed carefully or you can land into predicament, as search engines may ignore your blog etc.,
Content of robots.txt could be as follows : (though you can block your certain pages from robots by mentioning it in disallow)
User-agent: Mediapartners-Google
Disallow:
User-agent: *
Disallow:
Allow: /
Sitemap: http://www.zunkyard.blogspotcom/feeds/posts/default?orderby=updated
For full Post visit :
http://www.zunkyard.blogspot.in/2012/08/robotstxt-customise-to-allow-and.html
dear tell me that if someone already added meta or Description in blogg template
if i added in Search preferences same words
benefit for my blog or not
Both are benefits for your Blogspot blogs
Thankx for this post! Google really introduce great thing!
Thanks for you article, and is so useful, I am also, hear about this recently..
Now that they have given access to robot.txt and also provided option to choose to no-index to labels. Does this mean that the label links could be crawled?
May be not.
very useful. Thanks for sharing it.