How To Set Up Custom Robots Header Tags in Blogger

Don’t you want to know what are Custom Robots Header Tags in Blogger and how to set up them? You’re in the right place.

In this tutorial we will guide you step-by-step on How to set up the Custom Robots Header Tags in Blogger.

Custom Robots Header Tags guide search engine robots & crawlers which content(posts, images, pages, search pages, description) to index or list on search results.

From SEO point of view it is not a good practice to allow unnecessary content or sections of a website to be crawled or list in search engines because it effects the performance of website.

There are 3 types of  Custom Robots Header Tags in Blogger:

• Home page tags
• Archive and search page tags
• Post and page tags

 

Follow the steps to set up Custom Robots Headers Tags one-by-one:

• Open Blogger Dashboard.
• Click Settings.
• Scroll down to “Crawlers and indexing” section.
• Enable custom robots header tags by moving the slider towards right.

 

01. Home Page Tags

In this section you will learn to set up Home Page Tags in Blogger.

• Click “Home page tags”.
• Enable “all”.
• Enable “noodp”.
• Click SAVE.

 

02. Archive and Search Page Tags

In this section you will learn to set up Archive & Search Page Tags in Blogger.

• Click “Archive and search page tags”.
• Enable “noindex”.
• Click SAVE.

 

03. Post and page tags

In this section you will learn to set up Post and Page Tags in Blogger.

• Click “Post and page tags”.
• Enable “all”.
• Enable “noodp”.
• Click SAVE.

 

Explanation Of Directives

These are the directives/tags that have been marked/used in Custom Robots Header Tags above.

• all: There are no restrictions for indexing or serving. This directive is the default value and has no effect if explicitly listed.
• noodp: noodp means No Open Directory Project. The benefit of using noodp tag is that you can avoid search engines from choosing random description. This affects the SEO of your webpage. The Noodp tag inform Google what is relevant for the page.
• noindex: Instructs web-robots to not index pages in search engines, and don’t show/list them in search results. From SEO point of view Blogger’s search pages are unnecessary to be listed on search engines. That’s why in “Archive and Search pages” section we have ticked noindex, means Search Engines will not list URLs containing “/search/”.  This is an example of a URL containing search “https://www.example.blogspot.com/search/label/Fashion”.

 

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