Add Custom Robot.txt File In Blogger Blogs

While blogging, we have to consider search engine preference which is nothing but the term SEO. Search Engine Optimization is so needed to all blogs and every bloggers should need to make sure they have better SEO optimized blog. And on search preference the main thing to be noted is Robots.txt. In blogger by using inbuilt feature you can add custom Robots.txt easily. The only thing most of the blogs are indexing soon on search results is with these robot.txt which improve your blog visible in search engine result. If you take Google as your search engine, then this tool is must needed for making your blog visible under top search result pages.

Earlier, we need to add Robot.txt as file into domain html file blah,blah… But by using the new tool on Blogger, users are allowed to add custom robot.txt for their blogs quickly and in simple manner. This post will be guiding you on this case! Before getting into the tutorial, you need to get some better idea on robot.txt, what is it?

What is robot.txt file?

Robot.txt is file where the blog owners or admin use this file to give instructions about their site to web robots. It can also stops web crawler software, such as Googlebot, from crawling certain pages of your site. It can make your blog SEO friendly too! It will be added next to the site link for example,

http://www.WebsiteName.com/robots.txt

Add Custom Robots.txt in Blogger

Step 1: Go To Blogger >> Setting >> Search Preference.

Step 2: Find Custom Robot.txt Section there and in the checkbox go ahead with YES. Then paste the following code added below in that box

User-agent: Mediapartners-Google
User-agent: *
Disallow: /search?q=*
Disallow: /*?updated-max=*
Allow: /
Sitemap: http://www.yourdmomain.com/feeds/posts/default?orderby=updated

Step 3: Then Save the Changes.

Final thoughts

Hope you benefited with this post by improving your blogs search preference using robot.txt. If you’ve any doubts on this, then drop them below. Don’t forget to share your thoughts in comments below. And do likes and share this post, if you feel this article helps! Happy and Peace Blogging;)

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