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Blogspot / Blogger SEO: Avoid duplicate content by blocking archive page

Blogspot / Blogger SEO: Avoid duplicate content by blocking archive page

To stop spam, Google and many other search engines impose a Duplicate content penalty



This might pull down search engine rankings. Blogger archive pages can pose a little problem . You can see on this image below that both archive page and post pages have the same content. You need to block it.



This is very simple actually. Just go to Blogger Dashboard –> Layout –> Edit HTML
Add this just after <head> tag.

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;archive&quot;'><meta name="robots" content="noindex, follow" /></b:if>


This code instructs crawlers not to index archive pages.

I recently posted an article on shoutmeloud.com about SEO tricks using Google Webmasters tool. You can check it out.

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When this blog was launched on the blogger platform, I set out to accomplish SEO Optimization and better indexing of my posts.

For a minute I thought to myself, if blogger blogs are owned by Google, they’d automatically be exempted from Google’s Duplicate Content Policy. Well I was living in denial.


A search for this problem on Google, saw me reading up to 3 posts which all came to the same conclusion.

“Bloggers Blogs Aren’t Exempted From Google’s Duplicate Content Policy”

Below is the method I used to help me keep in line with Google’s policy.

1 : Login in your blogger account, while in your dashboard click on Layout then Edit HTML.






2: PLEASE BACKUP YOUR TEMPLATE BEFORE YOU PROCEED TO THE NEXT STEP! Click on Download Full Template.




3 : Go to your template code and scroll till you find and just after that but before <b:skin>

Code :

<!-- Recommended Duplicate Content Cure Code -->
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType != "item"'>
<meta content='noindex,follow,noarchive,noodp' name='GOOGLEBOT'/>
<meta content='noindex,follow,noarchive,noodp' name='SLURP'/>
<meta content='noindex,follow,noarchive,noodp' name='MSNBOT'/>
<meta content='noindex,follow,noarchive,noodp' name='TEOMA'/>
<meta content='noindex,follow,noarchive,noodp' name='ROBOTS'/>
<b:else/>
<meta content='index,follow,noodp' name='GOOGLEBOT'/>
<meta content='index,follow,noodp' name='SLURP'/>
<meta content='index,follow,noodp' name='MSNBOT'/>
<meta content='index,follow,noodp' name='TEOMA'/>
<meta content='index,follow,noodp' name='ROBOTS'/>
</b:if>
<!-- Recommended Duplicate Content Cure Code End -->

To make your blog permanently Duplicate Content free.

 

Save your template and you’re done!

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How to Avoid Duplicate Content in Your Blogger - blogspot


You probably know by now that Google is taking serious measure to rid it's search engine result pages from duplicated content. It is frustrating to see MFA pages when you are doing your search. These MFA pages used scripts to publish other's articles and blogs. These are duplicate content.


Google, in doing so, also penalizes websites that have different URLs pointing to the same page.


Legitimate Blogs Are Penalized Too

For example, you started a new blog with Blogger.com. You made 3 posts, one everyday. Your main page http://yourblog.blogspot.com lists 3 posts, which is identical to the archive,

http:// Your blog Name  .blogspot.com/2011_08_01_archive.html, showing the same 3 posts.

To the search engine, this is duplicate content. One of the URLs will be "supplementaled" or worse, delisted from the search engine database.

Blogger Archive Option

To prevent this from happening to your blog. Do you activate the Archive option when you first started the blog. Wait till you've written for more than 1 or 2 months.

The following screen shot shows you how to set Archive Frequency to No Archive.




You can also use the optimized Modified MrMoto template which I modified the Archive page. The modified archive page does not show the entire post but just the title of the post. In this way, your archive page looks different and contains different stuff from your main page. You're safe!
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