Saturday, July 12, 2014

How to SEO Optimize Archive Links in Blogger

We don’t need much to do to avoid search robots for crawling archive pages, because we’ll have to add just an extra quality 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’>
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
In addition if you go to any of your blog’s dashboard and do the following then it is also likely that search engines won’t crawl the archive pages and other needless pages. Do the following means, to make some go forward SEO setting in Blogger new line. Just take these steps:
1.       Go to Blogger Dashboard
2.      Setting >> Search Preferences >> Scroll down the page and see Custom Robots Header Tags
3.      Edit >> Yes >> and now make this setting which is showing in below picture


Save your template and you’ve added no index attribute to all of your archive pages.