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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.

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.

Search Engine Optimization Vs. Search Engine Marketing: What's The Difference? SEO and SEM are two terms that are commonly bandied about by webmasters. Sometimes it seems as if the two terms are used almost interchangeably. But is there a difference, and if so, what is it? In fact, there is a difference. SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization. It refers to anything you do to your page to make it more search engine friendly. SEM stands for Search Engine Marketing. It forms a sort of umbrella term that can refer to anything you do to get your page ranked higher in search engines, from search engine optimization to requesting backlinks to submitting your URL to search engines.