Blogger. com User - Why Bots Not Indexing Your Blog?

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If you host your blog at blogger.com, then this information is crucial for you to know. here’s the news; By default, the following meta tag is inserted into your blog: which is bad because the meta tag directly tell any search engine bots to not indexing your blog. That is INDEED a bad news unless, for some reasons you want your blog to stay invisible!?

Well, this condition only applies if you are using the default templates. If you have rigorously change your template then your blog may not be subjected to this problem. How to make sure of that? Just view your blog’s page source and search for NOINDEX or NOFOLLOW. To view your page source, right click on any blank section on your blog and from the pop-up menu, clik “view page source” if you are using Firefox, or “view source” if you are using Internet Explorer.

If you don’t see any of those two words, good news for you. If you do then here is what you should do;

1. Sign in to your blogger account
2. go to your blog’s layout setting
3. clik at the “Edit HTML” link
4. If you are using classic blogger, delete <$BlogMetaData$>; If you are using the new blogger, delete the line (refer to the picture above)

Once you have done that, don’t forget to press the “save template” button.