You Cannot Index Label Searches, Productively
Thursday, July 16, 2015
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The dependent acre of indexing of label searches comes up, from fourth dimension to time, inward Blogger Help Forum: Learn More About Blogger.
Label searches are non unique content - as well as should non survive indexed. Posts are content - as well as posts are best indexed, every bit post service pages - conduct from the automatically generated sitemap.
Post content indexed both using a normal post service page URL, as well as using 1 (or many) label search URLs, volition survive detected every bit duplicated content.
Duplicated content penalties volition survive applied to content simultaneously indexed using both label search URLs, as well as post service page URLs. We've seen this occur - as well as it was non a fourth dimension of enjoyment, for many spider web log owners.
H5N1 few months after labels were added to our blogs, inward 2007, spider web log owners were complaining most lack of search engine activity. Blogger spider web log owners, inward massive amounts, reported that page rank had dropped to null - as well as search engines had stopped indexing their posts.
Investigation revealed that Blogger blogs, amongst newly added label search indexes, were existence indexed twice - 1 using the normal, post service page URLs, as well as a second, using the label search URLs. Blogs amongst multiple labels / post service were rampantly indexed.
And all of the indexing was for nothing. Why? Because the search engines were detecting the duplicated indexing - as well as applying penalties to both the post service page indexed content, as well as the label search indexed content. And nobody was happy.
Blogger Engineering installed an emergency update, to our "Robots.Txt" files.
And in that place nosotros are. Everybody who understands search engine indexing leaves the "Robots.Txt" code intact, as well as publishes informative, interesting, as well as unique content.
If you lot wish, you lot may take away that component - or whatever other component - of your file. It's your blog, as well as your file.
However, if you lot exercise take away the necessary entries, as well as you lot come upwards subsequently to reduced search engine activity, or of no visitors, you'll survive instructed to restore to a criterion "Robots.Txt" file. And, to pass to a greater extent than fourth dimension publishing content, inward your blog.
I desire the label content to appear, inward search engine hitting lists.Some spider web log owners cannot sympathise what gets indexed, past times the search engines.
Label searches are non unique content - as well as should non survive indexed. Posts are content - as well as posts are best indexed, every bit post service pages - conduct from the automatically generated sitemap.
Post content indexed both using a normal post service page URL, as well as using 1 (or many) label search URLs, volition survive detected every bit duplicated content.
Duplicated content penalties volition survive applied to content simultaneously indexed using both label search URLs, as well as post service page URLs. We've seen this occur - as well as it was non a fourth dimension of enjoyment, for many spider web log owners.
H5N1 few months after labels were added to our blogs, inward 2007, spider web log owners were complaining most lack of search engine activity. Blogger spider web log owners, inward massive amounts, reported that page rank had dropped to null - as well as search engines had stopped indexing their posts.
Investigation revealed that Blogger blogs, amongst newly added label search indexes, were existence indexed twice - 1 using the normal, post service page URLs, as well as a second, using the label search URLs. Blogs amongst multiple labels / post service were rampantly indexed.
And all of the indexing was for nothing. Why? Because the search engines were detecting the duplicated indexing - as well as applying penalties to both the post service page indexed content, as well as 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 - as well as "Allow: /" permits all other access.User-agent: * Disallow: /search Allow: /
And in that place nosotros are. Everybody who understands search engine indexing leaves the "Robots.Txt" code intact, as well as publishes informative, interesting, as well as unique content.
If you lot wish, you lot may take away that component - or whatever other component - of your file. It's your blog, as well as your file.
However, if you lot exercise take away the necessary entries, as well as you lot come upwards subsequently to reduced search engine activity, or of no visitors, you'll survive instructed to restore to a criterion "Robots.Txt" file. And, to pass to a greater extent than fourth dimension publishing content, inward your blog.