How to SEO Optimize Archive Links in Blogger 2016
As we have been talking about blogger SEO in deep. And Thus, I have come up today with another post and this is about optimizing the archive links in Blogger.So, links inside archives are pointing to different posts existing in our blog which were published in the past. These archives links basically can create problems for search engines' robots as crawling duplicate content from our blog. Because as I already mentioned in my previous posts that a page should have only a unique address for search engines to be crawled. Different addresses create problems for search engines and the site owner too. Because it create duplicate content issues which is very harmful for a blog.So, Lets Start our SEO Trick:
How to avoid Search Engines from crawling the archives:
We don't need much to do to avoid search robots for crawling archive pages, because we'll have to add just an extra attribute to the HTML part of our blog and that will solve the issue. Follow given steps below to resolve the issue today:
1. Go to
Blogger
2. Template
>> HTML >> Proceed >> Tick the Expand Widget Template
3. Now
Find Below Line Of Code in Your Template
<a
class='post-count-link' expr:href='data:i.url'>
Just
replace the above code with this one:
<a
rel="archives" class='post-count-link' expr:href='data:i.url'>
Just replace the above code with this one:
Save the template and you're done. This will tell the search engines' that the link is an archive page so they will automatically understand it and won't crawl it.
Additional Tips For Better Understanding:
If you go to any of your blog's dashboard and do the following then it is also possible that search engines won't crawl the archive pages and other unnecessary pages. Do the following means, to make some advance and deep SEO setting in Blogger new interface. Just take these steps:
- Go to Blogger Dashboard
- Setting >> Search Preferences >> Scroll down the page and see Custom Robots Header Tags
- Edit >> Yes >> and now make this setting which is showing in below picture
Save your blogger template and you've added no index attribute to all of your archive pages.
I hope that after reading this article you have better understanding about this.if you like this article share it on social media to help other blogger brothers.
Let me know if you have any problem regarding to this article.If you have any problem you can ask me in comment box.Thanks for reading the article.
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