You Cannot Index Label Searches, Productively
Friday, October 4, 2019
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The bailiwick of indexing of label searches comes up, from fourth dimension to time, inwards Blogger Help Forum: Learn More About Blogger.
Label searches are non unique content - together with should non hold upward indexed. Posts are content - together with posts are best indexed, equally ship pages - conduct from the automatically generated sitemap.
Post content indexed both using a normal ship page URL, together with using ane (or many) label search URLs, volition hold upward detected equally duplicated content.
Duplicated content penalties volition hold upward applied to content simultaneously indexed using both label search URLs, together with ship page URLs. We've seen this occur - together with it was non a fourth dimension of enjoyment, for many weblog owners.
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 few months after labels were added to our blogs, inwards 2007, weblog owners were complaining well-nigh lack of search engine activity. Blogger weblog owners, inwards massive amounts, reported that page rank had dropped to null - together with search engines had stopped indexing their posts.
Investigation revealed that Blogger blogs, amongst newly added label search indexes, were beingness indexed twice - ane using the normal, ship page URLs, together with a second, using the label search URLs. Blogs amongst multiple labels / ship were rampantly indexed.
And all of the indexing was for nothing. Why? Because the search engines were detecting the duplicated indexing - together with applying penalties to both the ship page indexed content, together with the label search indexed content. And nobody was happy.
Blogger Engineering installed an emergency update, to our "Robots.Txt" files.
And at that spot nosotros are. Everybody who understands search engine indexing leaves the "Robots.Txt" code intact, together with publishes informative, interesting, together with unique content.
If you lot wish, you lot may take that division - or whatsoever other division - of your file. It's your blog, together with your file.
However, if you lot create take the necessary entries, together with you lot come upward afterwards to reduced search engine activity, or of no visitors, you'll hold upward instructed to restore to a measure "Robots.Txt" file. And, to pass to a greater extent than fourth dimension publishing content, inwards your blog.
I desire the label content to appear, inwards search engine hitting lists.Some weblog owners cannot sympathise what gets indexed, yesteryear the search engines.
Label searches are non unique content - together with should non hold upward indexed. Posts are content - together with posts are best indexed, equally ship pages - conduct from the automatically generated sitemap.
Post content indexed both using a normal ship page URL, together with using ane (or many) label search URLs, volition hold upward detected equally duplicated content.
Duplicated content penalties volition hold upward applied to content simultaneously indexed using both label search URLs, together with ship page URLs. We've seen this occur - together with it was non a fourth dimension of enjoyment, for many weblog owners.
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 few months after labels were added to our blogs, inwards 2007, weblog owners were complaining well-nigh lack of search engine activity. Blogger weblog owners, inwards massive amounts, reported that page rank had dropped to null - together with search engines had stopped indexing their posts.
Investigation revealed that Blogger blogs, amongst newly added label search indexes, were beingness indexed twice - ane using the normal, ship page URLs, together with a second, using the label search URLs. Blogs amongst multiple labels / ship were rampantly indexed.
And all of the indexing was for nothing. Why? Because the search engines were detecting the duplicated indexing - together with applying penalties to both the ship page indexed content, together with the label search indexed content. And nobody was happy.
Blogger Engineering installed an emergency update, to our "Robots.Txt" files.
Since a label search has the URL "/search/label/whatever", "Disallow: /search" blocks obedient robots from searching, using label search URLs - together with "Allow: /" permits all other access.User-agent: * Disallow: /search Allow: /
And at that spot nosotros are. Everybody who understands search engine indexing leaves the "Robots.Txt" code intact, together with publishes informative, interesting, together with unique content.
If you lot wish, you lot may take that division - or whatsoever other division - of your file. It's your blog, together with your file.
However, if you lot create take the necessary entries, together with you lot come upward afterwards to reduced search engine activity, or of no visitors, you'll hold upward instructed to restore to a measure "Robots.Txt" file. And, to pass to a greater extent than fourth dimension publishing content, inwards your blog.