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Saturday, July 14, 2012

How to prevent Indexing of Archive pages in Google


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We all know that Google Panda is hitting all those websites which publish copy content. There are many things which we must take care to prevent our blog from being hit by Panda. We must no index search, labels and index pages from search engine indexing. This is a must have step for those who use blogger platform because archive pages can cause duplicate content issue. Content will be available on the post page as well as on Archive page.


Few days back, i noticed some traffic fall. Then i started finding the reasons for this. Then i saw that problem was archive pages which are still indexed in the search engine and causing duplicate content. 
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This was really a bad moment when i saw and realized that change in template lost my last changes. So Archive pages started being indexed. I again did few changes to make sure blog is now Panda and Penguin friendly.


You can stop search engines to index archive pages by using no index robots meta tag for archive page.
To perform this, Follow these steps:

  1. Login to your Blogger Account
  2. Go to dashboard and then select blog.
  3. Now go to Template and then click on Edit HTML.
  4. Now you will be able to edit html code.
  5. Add following code in the <head> section of the code.

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


Now save the template and wait for few days. If you want instant removal of archive pages, you can use webmaster tools to request for removal of archive pages from Google search.

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