Using the Meta Robots Tag in Blogger - Formulating the recommended meta robots tag syntax in Google Blogger
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The meta robots tag is inserted in the header section of the Classic Template. Below is an example of the source code:
<head>
<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="INDEX,FOLLOW">
Below are the objectives the code needs to accomplish with respect to search engine results, crawling and indexing:
The front page/home page should be crawled or indexed. Also, the Google bot should follow the links on this page.
The Post page or Item page should also be crawled or indexed, and all links should be followed.
The archived page should not be crawled or indexed. Also, Googlebot should not follow links on this page.
If the blog is listed in DMOZ, the description on Google search results should use the specified meta description tag of all blog pages instead using the DMOZ description.
To write the code, Blogger template is dynamically driven, and the execution of the command follows the thought process below:
IF <templatetag1> Meta robots instruction 1</templatetag2> OR IF <templatetag2> Meta robots instruction 2 </templatetag2> OR IF < templatetag3> Meta robots instruction 3 </templatetag3>……….
The first set of instruction is executed, and then it goes to the next, and so on and so forth. Translating the objectives into something like the above would look like this:
First meta robot tag for crawling/following of links:
IF Front page is crawled, then meta robots instruction should be “index, follow” OR IF Post page is crawled, then meta robots instruction should also be “index, follow” OR IF Archived page is crawled, then meta robots instruction should be “noindex, nofollow.”
Second meta robot tag is for displaying meta descriptions instead of DMOZ snippets.
For all blog pages, <META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOODP">
Take note that this particular meta robots tag will not affect the crawling and indexing of links or text content. It will deal only with what descriptions will be shown in search results in Google if the blog is listed in DMOZ. By default, if Google does not find this command, it will show the DMOZ descriptions, which could be inaccurate for the page, thus affecting click through.
It is important to confirm that the execution of those tags in the dynamic Blogger template yields the objective.
This can be done by viewing the source code of any particular pages in the site using either Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, etc.
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