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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.
See Archive page of TricksNDTricks
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:
- Login to your Blogger Account
- Go to dashboard and then select blog.
- Now go to Template and then click on Edit HTML.
- Now you will be able to edit html code.
- Add following code in the <head> section of the code.
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "archive"'>
<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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Blogger has just rolled out a new feature in which users are now able to reply to someone's comment. Now its easier to differentiate between whether someone is making a general comment on the thread, or responding to another comment on the thread. This feature was already available in most of the other blogging platforms.
To enable this feature in your blog, you only need to set blog feeds to full and embedded comments. if you donot know how to do this, follow these steps:
select: “Settings -> Other ->, and then in “Allow Blog Feed” dropdown select "full"
Now, select: “Settings -> Posts and Comments, and in “Comment Location” dropdown select “Embedded”.
Now you have done the needed things to reply on other person's comment
Google had rolled out new blogger interface, few months back. I also switched to the new one which looks good and more user friendly. But not all like these changes. I know some of bloggers who says that the old blogger was better than the new. So i have decided to write the steps to get old blogger interface.
- Login to your blogger account.
- Find the gear icon and click on that.
- Then click on "Old Blogger Interface"
Then you will be redirected to old blogger interface.
To come back on the new blogger interface. find the link at the right top of the blogger dashboard.
Google has now integrated blogger with Google+ and your blogger profile is now replaced with Google+ profile. Google has now added one more feature to make the blogpost sharing easier on Google+.
Now after publishing the post on blogger, you will see a dialog box with your post. Here choose the circle you’d like to share the post with and then share it. The post will be added to your Google+ account.
But this feature is only available in the new blogger interface. If you are still using the old blogger, the switch to the new blogger interface by clicking the link at top right corner.
In the new blogger interface, go and integrate your Google+ profile with blogger profile.
Then go to the Posts and Comments” page and enable Google+ sharing.
If you do not want this feature and it is already activated in your account then go and disable it in Posts and Comments page.
