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

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

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.

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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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