The students of search Engine Optimization know the importance of headers, tags and their functionality in ranking process. The blogger has provide all these components as final dish for its users to use them in simple way of just clicking. The blogger named this dish "Custom Robots Header Tags".
Before Jump straight into the matter, lets have a brief overview about "What are Robots?, Header Tags? and lastly, what does mean by Custom?
What are Robots?
Robots also known as bots, spider, crawler are computer programmed developed by search engines provider to perform the following functions:
- Crawl
- indexing
- and serve contents as requested by users.
Header Tags Functionality
Header tags are directives or instructions that robots follow at the time of crawling, indexing, and show multiple contents on results page. Let suppose if someone approach a browser to find a website or web page, the response of search engine to the request is associated with multiple attributes, and these attributes are termed as "Header Tags". For instance, You need to assign H-1 heading to your title of the post and so on.
What does mean Custom?
Custom means you have opportunity to select the header tags as per your choice.
Classification of Pages for Custom Robots Header Tags in Blogger
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| By default Blogger has classified pages into three types in accordance with header tags factors |
Be default, the blog site has been classified into three pages, and every page is associated with same number of header tags which are 10 in total.
Home Page
This class represents the home page of your blog, that contain all of your posts.
Archive and Search Pages
Archive likes a shelve where all your posts related pages are placed, and you can access them through clicking on "older" or "new" button or link available right bottom of your home page. But availability of these option depends upon the theme that you are using.
The other ways to access these post is clicking on Month or Year button.
Secondly anyone have access them using search bar service available on your home page of your blog. Search result may display multiple blog posts or a single post.
Default for Post and Pages
If a blog has more than 500 posts, suppose, then every single post has a page with comments feature.
Components of Robots Header Tags
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| For each page the same ten total number of header tags factors are used |
- All: -This tag allows robots (computer Programed) to crawl, indexing, and display your content as a result of search.
- noindex:-Retard the robots from indexing the blog. In other words, website will not appear in search results
- nofollow: -This attributes pass on directive to robots do not index these pages as they are marked or linked as no follow, means no need to indexed them. But the same linked pages are marked as do follow by other website; you are free to index them.
- none: -This single attribute or header tag performs the same actions as done by the noindex and nofollow together.
- noarchive:- Users of Internet might be experience that google caches the websites on results page. What does it mean? Google caches means stores website temporally as copy for a duration if the link goes down. Picking up this header tag means stop google from caching websites
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| Google Cache is actually a snapshot or copy of website that stored temporarily to show on result page if the link goes down |
- nosnippet: -Google search results shows some piece of text for each website or page that help readers to find the nature of content pen down inside the post or website. If your turn on, google will not show snippet text on search results page.
- noodp: -odp stand for Open Directory Project of Dmoz- A human made directory for websites, and editable by human. Google search engine often uses information from it for instance text snippets to improve its SERP efficiency. You Stop robots, if you set it off.
- notranslate:-Google provides feature to translate content of website into the language of user. It won't be shown if you set it on.
- noimageindex:-From SEO point of view, indexing image is essential and it helps to increase traffic on blog. By default it is unchecked.
- Further, use copy right feature to prevent image from unauthorized use.
- Unavailable-after-Blogger can specify the duration or time period after that web page will not be available to be show on results page.
Finally the time has come to dive into the real matter.
Setting up Robots Header Tags in Blog
All steps are going to be disclosing for setting up
these header tags for blogger to bring in more traffic.
Step 1
Go to your blog dashboard by signing in blogger.com. If you don't have blog watch this video to know how to make your own blog on blogger.
Step 2
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| Most relevant header tags are shown in this image that commonly in use for blog. |
On left side
Bar, Go to Setting>>Search Preference. A property pan opens on your right
side with multiple section having different features.
Your
targeted section is labeled as "Crawlers and Indexing". Click on Edit
in Line with Custom Robots Header Tag
Step 3
In this
step, go with the option "Yes". A set of header tags will be
displayed with check boxes. Here the above cited explanation helps you checked
the most relevant boxes. Below image also guides in selection of most relevant
header tags.
Note: For readers’ convenience, most relevant robots Header tags are checked
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