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Robots.txt contains the guidelines or rules for the bot-crawlers about how they will crawl and index your website or blog. Blogger allows to set some very basic SEO settings very easily from the dashboard. One of them is setting a custom robots.txt for your blogger. When a robot search engine crawler is visiting a page or website, robots.txt is the first thing it looks for is the robots.txt file. As a Blogger user you now have the option to control what the search engine crawlers should follow and index from your website or blog. Every blogger blog has a default robots.txt but with advanced changes in blogger you can change it according to your needs. In this post, you will know about the default robots.txt of blogger, how to add or edit a custom robots.txt for your blogger blog and some useful examples of robots.txt with an adsense friendly one. So let's get started.

You know when you try to leave a link in the comments section of Blogger blogs and it never links? There's a way around that. Don't abuse this, obviously, but this  is such a handy little tip, particularly if you want to link to a particular post. 

Some of you have observed that many blogs have AdSense ad Units or other ads and widgets in the header area of the blog page, one of the most popular placement is the AdSense 468x60 ad unit. Unfortunately, we are not always able to add a widget within the blogger header as a Blogger user. The reason is that if we are using the Blogger default template, or any other customized design available online, the header may be locked and have no choice to Add a gadget inside it or just next to the blog title.

One thing that has bothered me for a while is the fact that every one of my blog post page titles starts with the blog name. Repeating your blog title on every post page is bad for SEO.  Blogger doesn't have a built in option for this but it's easy to fix with a few lines of code. Go to your Blogger CP and select edit html. Find the string:  <title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title> Replace it with: <b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "index"'> <title><data:blog.title/></title> <b:else/> <title><data:blog.pageName/></title> </b:if> You Blogger blog will now be better optimized for search engines and users.

Pin It button allows your readers to share your posts without having to leave your blog. It pulls all available images from a post and lets them choose which image to pin. It also comes with an optional counter that displays how many times a blog post has been pinned. Adding Pin It button to Blogger post This Pin It button goes to the top or bottom of a post. It comes with a counter that displays how many times a blog post has been pinned. Here are the steps: Go to  Template > Edit HTML . Back up your template. Check the Expand Widget Templates checkbox on top right of the HTML window. Look for the following data tag in your HTML. This is the tag for the post content: < data:post.body /> Normally there are two instances of the tag present in your template. Locate the  the first  (from top) one.  Paste the following code immediately below (after) it: <!-- Pinterest button Start by BloggerSentral.com --> <b:if cond='data:blo...

As we all aware facebook is one of the largest social media company in the word.If your blog have any fan page then it will help you a lot in increasing traffic on your blog. Here I am giving all types of facebook like buttons codes. i.e. vertical count,horizontal count and without count.You can add this button just below of of post tile and below of the post.Just follow my instructions carefully.... Note  - This button will not like your fan page it will like and share your  post How To Add Facebook Like Button To Blogger Posts? Go to Blogger Dashboard > Design > Edit HTML First take a backup of your template Tick   the expand widget check box Find for below code in your template <data:post.body/> If you wish to add like button j ust below of post title  the  add the below code just before  of <data:post.body/> and if you wish to add this like button  just below of your post  then add below code ...

Hi Everyone those who looking for a great widget for social sharing of web site's & blog there is a good news. Now you can easily add floating share buttons like one in the floating in the left, very easily in 4 steps. With This widget any visitor visiting your blog post can share the port on  social networking sites like facebook, twitter, digg, stumbleupon etc .  The user sharing your site on  social networking sites or like it on FBwill drive more traffic to your website ,blog; this  is because as your popularity grows share,like on  social networks it will drive more traffic to your blog, so you should  do all you can; to link your blog website to these social networking websites. One good way of doing this is to add some nice share buttons to your blog.  Share buttons allow your readers to easily share the contents of your  blog or website with their friends on various social networking websites where  they are membe...

This tutorial explains how to add a small print button below the post titles to print It is really necessary to Add Print Button to Blogger Posts, if there were any visitors or viewers want to print one or more posts in a blog. Like this below : Click Here to See the Example  (scroll at the end of post to find printer button icon) How to Add Print Button to Blogger Posts ? ... First Step 1. Go to Dashboard, click Design, click Edit HTML 2. Click Expand Widget Templates 3. Find code of HTML below : </head> you can use (Ctrl+F) to find easily

What would have happened if there was absolutely no way to redirect a blog to another. I initially intended to make http://vikas.com a different blog under a sub domain but changed my mind due to certain reasons. I was worried about the traffic I was going to lose and decided to search online just to make a little research. I came up with a little trick which I'm gonna share here, who knows, someone else might searching for same. To redirect one blogspot blog to another needs no complex codes, simply copy and pasted the code below in the HEAD section of your template by folowing these steps: * Login to your blogger account and click on  Design  >  Edit HTML * Now Press CTRL = F and serch for  </head>  * Paste the following code just above this <meta HTTP-EQUIV='REFRESH' content=' 0 ; url=http:// my.new.blog.address.com '/> <meta content='NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW' name='ROBOTS'/> Please change my-new-blog-adress to yo...