How to Add Custom Robots.txt File in Blogger And Create SEO Friendly robots.txt

What actually is robots.txt file? How to create/make robots.txt file? Add SEO friendly custom robots.txt file in Blogger

Do you want to create your own robots.txt file for your Blogger Blog? If yes, this post will guide you in easy straight foeward steps. Here I will discuss about what robots.txt file is and how to add custom robots.txt file in Blogger. Recently Blogger has added an option called search preferences into Blogger dashboard that will allow you to add custom robots header tags and custom robots.txt file.

I will highly recommend you to know completely about robots.txt file before makes any changes into this file because robots.txt file is all about crawling and indexing of your entire blog so if anything goes wrong may harm your SEO. Now, first we will learn about robots.txt file.

What is robots.txt? 

 

Robots.txt file iassociates with all types of crawlers or spiders like Googlebot, which is Google search engine's spider. In simple words, search engines always want to index the fresh and new content on the web so they send their spider or crawler to crawl the new pages on the web. 

If the spiders find new pages they will likely to index those pages, now robots.txt file comes to the picture on sake of you, spiders or crawlers only index the pages you are allowing in your robots.txt file. 

Keep in your mind, the crawler or spider will first look at your robots.txt files to obey the rules you have instructed. If you have disallowed a page in your robots.txt file then spiders will follow the rule and they will not index that page into their search engine.

Where is robots.txt file Situated? 

 

Robots.txt file placed on the root directory of any websites or blogs. The spiders have no doubt to where to go for finding robots.txt file. If you don't have any robots.txt file into the root directory of your domain then crawlers by default crawl and index each pages of your blog.

In WordPress, you can easily create your robots.txt file and place it on the root directory by your control panel's file manager or by using any FTP client like filezilla.

In Blogger, You can not have any option to go into the root directory of your blogspot blog or custom Blogger domain. Now, thanks to Google who recently add search preferences option by which you can easily edit your meta header tags, robot tags, nofollow and dofollow tags for different page types. We will use this option to create custom robots.txt file. Before creating robots.txt file, you must know the rules because any improper use can harm your site SEO.

You can access your robots.txt file by adding /robots.txt to the root directory of your blog or website. If your website domain URL is "www.yourdomain.com" then you have to access your robots.txt file by "www.yourdomain.com/robots.txt" URL.

If you have a blogspot domain then you can access it by "yourdomain.blogspot.com/robots.txt" URL. You may also check my robots.txt file.

How to Create Robots.txt file 

 

Creating robots.txt file is really simple just you have to know some rules as I am going to discuss in the following ways.

"If you have a WordPress blog, you can create a text document on your desktop and rename it to robots.txt. You are ready to go with an empty robots.txt file. You can upload it to the root directory of your domain. You may create rules as per your need by writing some text into this file"

"If you have a Blogger blog, now it is more easy than WordPress to create your robots.txt file. I will discuss it later but before I want to discuss about the rules and what kind of commands you can write in this file"

First thing, if your domain doesn't have any robots.txt file, it means you are allowing to crawl and index all of your blog pages to each spiders or crawlers.

Second, let you have a robots.txt file which is blank, it also means you are allowing to crawlers to index all the pages of your website.

Third, let you have a robtos.txt file and write the following two lines in it.

Here "User-agent" means all kind of crawlers or spiders, it may be Google's crawler such as Googlebot for search engine or Mediapartner-Google for Google adsense. In the above robots.txt file, I have used "*" as a value in User-agent. It means we are creating the rules for global crawlers or spiders or robots.

In the second line, we are allowing everything to crawled and index by crawlers. Don't be confused! ("Disallow:  "is same as "Allow: /" and it is not same as "Disallow: /"). If you don't have any value in "Disallow: " it means you are allowing everything to crawl and index while if you have "/" value into disallow as "Disallow: /" you are disallowing everything to crawl and index by the spiders.

Now, a quick cheat sheet is as following to understand the rules.

Block all content from all web crawlers 

Allow all content to all web crawlers

Block a specific web spider from a specific page

In this example, I have disallowed that specific page to Google's crawler so Google search engine would not index this page into their search result. However, the same post can be crawl by other web crawlers.

Block a directory from all web crawlers 

In this example, all things inside "search" directory and sub-directory would be blocked to all web crawlers. If you have a Blogger blog and you have created the same rule, it would disallow your category pages, called label pages in Blogger because label pages contained in the "search" directory (/search/label). It will surely disallowed search pages in Blogger.

In the third line, all things inside "p" directory and sub-directory would be blocked to all web crawlers. If you have a Blogger blog and you have created the same rule in your robots.txt file it means you are disallowing all your static pages to be crawl by any spiders. 

Allow an item to a blocked directory from Googlebot

In this example, you have disallowed all the static pages in Blogger except a page called about us.

I think, you have learned that how to deal with robots.txt file. You should use robots.txt file to disallow the pages that create duplicate content issue such as monthly or weekly archive pages have the same contents. One more thing, do you really want your blog get top ranking when someone search for the privacy policy or disclaimer policy. If no, then these pages should not be index in search engines, and search engines can not index such types of page if you had disallowed them.

Since robots.txt file indicates what to crawl and index from your website, and all the web crawlers visit on your robots.txt file before visiting on your website so there should be an option to include your sitemap into your robots.txt file. Yes, it is so that the spiders can do easily calculate and reach to every page into your website.

Showing sitemap in robots.txt file

This is a XML sitemap for Blogger.

SEO friendly robots.txt file in Blogger

 

You may disallow the pages you don't want to be index by search engines like contact us, privacy policy and disclaimer policy pages.

Now, copy all the text in the above code. we will upload this into our robots.txt file in Blogger.
Go to Blogger Dashboard -> Select your blog -> Settings -> Search preferences

Under "Crawlers and indexing", enable custom robots.txt content by clicking on "Yes" now paste the copied content here as mention in the preview. Now, finally click on Save changes. You have successfully created your custom robots.txt file for your Blogger.

You can now check robots.txt file of your blog by the desired URL as mention earlier in this post. If you have disallowed some specific pages via your robots.txt file, you may check it via Google webmaster tool under robots.txt tester by choosing your site URL.

Conclusion: robots.txt file is beneficial for those who don't want to share specific things to search engines or other robots. You may resolve duplicate content issue by using it.

How To Install Windows 7 the Right Way

Windows 7 is far better than previous windows versions (XP and Vista). The install process is plain simple and easy to follow. Now, just follow these steps as follows and you will install windows 7 in no time-

You can Install Windows 7 via DVD Disk you’ve purchased or with boot-able USB.

This post explains installing windows 7 with DVD disk.

Following are Steps To Install Windows 7 -

1. First, insert your Windows 7 Boot Disk into your DVD drive and reboot your PC While the PC is rebooting, you will be prompted ” Press any key to boot from CD…” Just press any key her.
   After pressing a key, windows will load installation files.
   
   Windows 7 setup will start.
    
2. Select your language, time and currency format and keyboard input (US).
   
   
3. Click Install Now to proceed.
   
   Setup will load for a minute or two.
   
   
4. Install Windows 7 - Setup is starting.
   
   
5. If you do, select I accept the license terms and click Next.
   
   
6. If you are upgrading from Windows Vista select Upgrade, if you had Windows XP you have to select Custom (Advanced). Upgrade from Windows XP to Windows 7 is not available. Click Custom (Advanced).
   
   
7. Select the Partition where you want to install Windows 7 and click Next. You will need at least 5716mb free space.
   
   {If you don’t have enough free space to Install Windows 7, you will receive a Warning.
   
   If that’s the case, you will need to format the partition where you previously had Operating System installed. WARNING: Formatting a partition will erase all existing data on the partition, proceed only if you have backed up all your files!
   
   If you want to format the partition, go to Drive options and format the partition where you want to install windows 7. Again, do this only if you have backed up your documents/files!click format and then yes}.
   
   
8. After you press Next, Windows 7 Installation will begin. Approximately takes about 30 min to 1 hour to finish, depending on your computer speed.
   
   After half an hour, setup is complete and windows 7 installation is almost finished. Few more minutes
   
   Now your computer will reboot, since the Windows 7 DVD boot disk is still in the drive, the message press any key to boot from DVD will appear. We already did that, so this time DO NOT press anything. Just wait 5 sec and your PC will continue booting and finish installing your operating system.
   
   Windows will continue booting and installing, almost there!
   
   Finally!
   
   
9. Insert your name (this will be your windows username)
   
   
10. If you want to, insert password for your computer. ( Hey….You won’t forget it, right? :) )
    
    
11. Insert your Windows 7 product key and press Next
    
    
12. Do you want Microsoft Updates for your new operating system? It is highly recommend you know…! Select use recommended settings.
    
    
13. It’s time for Time zone, select yours from the drop down menu.
    
    
14. Depending on your location, select the appropriate network location.
    
    
15. If you have more than 1 computer, type home-group password for sharing files. Make sure to remember it.
    
    Windows is finalizing your settings.
    
    FINALLY! Everything done. After a final loading Windows will start. And now you can explore your PC.
    
    Can you see the finish line ? Yup, we’re there.
    
    
16. That’s it. Now insert your computer manufacturer drivers CD and install drivers. Also FYI, Windows 7 has great driver support, go to Start –> Control Panel –> Select View By = Small Icons –> Click Windows Update

Check for updates and click on optional updates, to see which drivers windows 7 found for your computer automatically.

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How to Get Clear Skin Fast

Habits That Need To Break To Get Healthy Looking Skin-

 

We All Know That There are lots of Peoples Suffering From Uneven Skins Problems. They All Wants To Have Healthy Looking Skin Fast And although this is quite impossible, there are ways to get your skin clear Super-fast. Let’s go through the different steps to take and you’ll be waking up with a glowing skin in no-time. 

Here are a few habits we all need to break immediately in the pursuit of clean, healthy looking skin-

1. Don’t Touch

   
   No matter how difficult it may seem, we need to keep our hands away from our face. Every time you touch your skin, chances are you’re transmitting something that isn’t all that great. The dirt and oils from your hands can easily be deposited onto your skin if you aren’t careful.
   
   So, a hand’s off approach is always best. This rule also applies to pimples. No matter what, you must resist the urge to pop or pick at your pimples. You can transmit bacteria this way, which could lead to infection. It’s a vicious cycle. So, break the habit of touching and picking at your skin immediately.
   
   

2. Change Your Pillowcases

   
   Every one has their own personal schedule when it comes to laundering their sheets and pillowcases. It’s definitely not my favorite household chore. When it comes to keeping your skin clean, however, changing your pillowcase as frequently as possible is important. When you sleep at night, your hair and skin are all over your pillowcase. Hair oils and product are rubbed onto the pillowcase and they ultimately end up on your face, shoulders or even back.
   
   If you aren’t diligent about removing your makeup every night, that’s a cause for concern, too. Keep those pillowcases clean if your skin isn’t as clean as you would like it to be. If laundering is not always an option, turn your pillowcase inside out, or flip your pillow over to help keep impurities from collecting on your skin.
   
   

3. Clean Your Phones

   
   There’s hardly a day that goes by when someone doesn’t ask me why they’re getting blemishes down one side of their cheek. Assuming that there’s no other skin condition, this might be a quick fix, actually. Clean your telephones. Whether it’s a mobile or a landline, if the phone is touching your skin it’s depositing something onto your face and taking away other things that will remain on your phone until cleaned.
   
   Yuck! Clean your phones and screens regularly and turn this into a daily habit. I love to use spray hand sanitizers or antibacterial wipes, because they’ll clean the phone and kill germs in the process. When all else fails, try to use your speakerphone or headphones to avoid contact.

4. Pull Back Your Hair

   
   One habit that needs to be broken applies to men and women with longer hair. Our hair is loaded with all kinds of debris, oils, product, scents, you name it. It’s like flypaper and it tends to catch everything it comes into contact with. These germs and impurities reside in your hair and, unfortunately, get transferred onto the face, shoulders and back every time they come into contact with each other.
   
   Break this habit and start pulling your hair back when you sleep, when you’re at the gym or even if you’re just lounging around on the couch reading a book. If you can keep your hair away from your skin, you’ll begin to see an improvement in the appearance of your skin.
   

5. Remove that Makeup

   
   We all know that removing makeup is not merely an option. It must be done every single night before you go to bed. So, if you have gotten into the habit of neglecting this important beauty tip, then break it right away. There is absolutely nothing good that can come out of sleeping with makeup on your face.
   
   But it’s not just about sleeping. If you’re working out, you need to cleanse your face pre- and post-workout in the name of clear skin. Makeup will mix with your sweat and oils during your workout and can lead to clogged pores. So, be sure to cleanse pre- and post-workout, and keep facial cleansing cloths on hand to make it a simple habit to incorporate.
   
   

6. No More Alcohol 

   
   If you’re using skin care products that contain alcohol, break this habit, too. Skin care products containing alcohol tend to dry out the skin. If you’re already prone to dryness, the result could lead to skin that looks dry, flaky and even chapped.
   
   No one wants this. Dry skin tends to look a bit older then skin that is on the oily side or that is properly moisturized. So, drop the alcohol-infused products and look for alcohol-free products right away.

7. Do Hair Before Applying Makeup

   
   This was the hardest habit I personally have had to break. I’ve always applied my makeup first and then went on to tackle the hair. Little did I know I wasn’t doing my skin any favors. If you apply your makeup and then reach for the blow dryer, the heat from the dryer can cause your makeup to melt and transfer.
   
   Unfortunately, this can cause makeup to settle into your pores, which could ultimately lead to breakouts. Try switching it up. Admittedly it was a hard habit for me to break, but now I get it.
   
   

8. Pay Attention to Your Glasses

   
   I have glasses for reading and I have glasses to protect my eyes from the sun (or perhaps they are more for a fashion statement). Either way, if you notice breakouts on your nose, temples or upper cheeks, your glasses could be the culprit. Not unlike your phone, you need to practice the healthy habit of cleaning your eyeglasses and sunglasses regularly.
   
   Wipe down the glass, the arms and the nosepiece every day to ensure you’re removing germs, makeup, oils and debris. Clean your glasses and sunglasses with rubbing alcohol or spray hand sanitizer and wipe them down with a soft cloth. This one little habit could be the difference between dirty and clean skin. Give it a try.
   
   

9. Don’t Neglect the Body

   
   
   If you only wash and moisturize your face, you’re doing yourself a huge disservice. Breakouts can definitely occur on other areas of the body—think Bacne and shoulder acne.
   
   So, to keep your skin clean, be sure to wash from head to toe and use a moisturizer. After a workout, try to get your sweaty clothes changed to clean clothes immediately. And always pat your skin dry with a clean towel. Never reach for the family hand towel.
   
   If you’re interested in treating acne and blemishes, remember to use products formulated and labeled as anti-acne products. Remember that the healthiest skin is always the most beautiful.
   

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How to Install Microsoft Windows XP

Below are the steps required to install the standard version of Microsoft Windows XP. It is important to realize that some computer manufacturers have their own proprietary version of Windows XP. These specialized OEM versions may use a recovery disc or have a hidden partition that installs Windows XP. Therefore, the steps below may not all apply to how Windows XP is installed on your computer

If the following steps do not apply to your situation, we recommended you contact your computer manufacturer for additional help. 

Note: If you are re-installing Windows XP on a computer that already has Windows XP on it that works, we recommend that you backup important personal files first. The Windows installation process includes the erasing of the hard drive in the computer, resulting in all your personal files being deleted.

STEPS- 

1. The standard Microsoft Windows XP installation CD is bootable. Therefore, start by placing the Windows XP CD in your computer and reboot.
   
2. As the computer boots, a prompt to Press any key to boot from CD should be shown on the screen. When you see that message, immediately press any key. If you do not get this prompt or are unable to boot from the disc, run through the booting from a CD troubleshooting steps.
   
3. When the Windows XP setup menu appears, press ENTER to continue the setup.
   
4. Next, the Windows XP licensing agreement will be shown. If you agree to the licensing agreement, press F8.
   
5. Next, the install process gives you the option to repair Windows XP or to install a fresh copy. Press ESC to install a new copy of Windows XP.
   
6. Next, the partition setup will appear. If a partition already exists and you do not plan on having multiple operating systems on the computer, we recommend that you delete the existing partition before continuing the setup. You will know if a partition exists if you see anything other than Unpartitioned space listed on the screen.
   

   Note: When deleting a partition, ALL information will be lost.
   

   • To delete the partition:
     
     Select the partition and press D, then ENTER. Press L to delete the partition and then press ENTER
     

   Note: If you have multiple partitions, we suggest deleting all partitions, unless you plan on using these partitions. Deleting each of the other partitions can be done using the same steps above for each additional partition.

   • To create the partition:
     
     If you started with a new hard drive or have deleted existing partitions, select the unpartitioned space to create a new partition, then press C. Specify the size of the partition in MB (the default is to use all available space) and press ENTER.
   
   
7. Once the new partition has been created for Windows XP to be installed on, press ENTER to install Windows XP.
   
8. You need to select whether the drive will use FAT or NTFS. We suggest NTFS for users who are not sure what file system they want to use. After selecting the file system, press Enter.
   
9. The computer will start formatting the hard drive, which can take several minutes or more, depending on the size of the partition.
   
10. After the format process has completed, Windows will begin installing the files and then take you through a wizard to continue with the remainder of the installation and setup.
    
    

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