Theme Forest
Theme Forest Templates is a very neatly stacked premium blogger templates. In this list of the template, and it keeps increasing day by day. The categories of the blogs are simple and are any noob friendly. They are – SEO friendly, simple, clean, magazine, responsive, free and premium. The featured image of every image shows the categories as mentioned.Head over to their website for more.BlogTipsNTricks
BlogTipsNTricks is that premium blogger template provider which swears by quality. They have only ten templates listed on their site and are working continuously to better them for us. Every template is free, and you can get a slight overview in documentation or get a live demo of the same before you download the template. Every feature of the templates is showed in the form of blog posts. Head over to their website for more.MS Design
MS Design is not specifically for free blogger templates; it has a bunch of other services for you as well. Every template is adequately described in a blog post with the option of the live demo, buy or download at the end. Moreover, all the key features of a template (SEO optimized, fast loading, Adsense ready, Google Play Buttons, social share buttons, etc. ) are highlighted. Head over to their website for more.Templateism
This free blogger template provider has namely 4 categories – technology, multimedia, magazine, and gallery. These types contribute to 50+ blogger templates. You are entitled to a free Live Preview of every template and can also go through detailed blog posts which highlight the features of the templates. You can download the template for free (by proper crediting). If you want to make more out of the template such as well technical support, regular update and much more, then you have to go for the one-time paid package. Head over to their website for more.ThemeXpose
ThemeXpose is another excellent free blogger template provider. They have themes for various categories – personal, magazine, technology, photography and entertainment templates. Head over to their website for more. A short blog post gives you an idea about the template features. You can download the free version or pay a small amount to remove footer credits and get support or pay the full amount to gain access to even more features besides the ones mentioned above. Head over to their website for more.BThemeZ
BThemeZ is the best blogger template provider if you are looking for something within your budget. Check the live demo and read the blog post to know the highlights of the template. You can also download the free version with limited access. But the free version offers you quite resources like unlimited support, multiple site usage, updates and bug fixes.Head over to their website for more.
Sora Templates
Sora Templates come with some useful templates. You can watch a live preview of each of the template. There is not much documentation about the templates. You can download the free version or go for the paid version to enjoy more service from the theme provider end. Head over to their website for more.Gooyaabi Templates
Gooyaabi Templates is one of the best blogger template providers. It has many categories like styles, colors, features, etc. There are many templates to select from. Their official website also shows the top templates of the year to know the trending template. All the templates are free, and you have access to a forum for support any time of the day. You will also get guides on how to install the template. The model features are mentioned below in very short to-the-point language. Head over to their website for more.BTemplates
As the name suggests, BTemplates is another free blogger template provider. They have a huge collection of 4500+ templates for you to choose your template from. All the templates are managed into the categories so that you can very quickly select your theme. The categories are – Layout (responsive), Styles (premium, magazine, etc.), Columns (1 column, 2 columns, etc.), Colors (green, blue, red, etc.) and Sidebar (left, right, both). Head over to their website and grab your template. Head over to their website for more.My Blogger Themes
The name is slightly misleading as this is solely a blogger template gallery. There are many categories in which the templates are sorted. They are – topic (food, health, city, entertainment, travel, etc.), style (magazine, personal, portal, etc.), feature (ads ready, dropdown menu, footer column, slideshow, etc.), etc. There is a section of popular and most downloaded templates to give you the idea of the trend. Head over to their website for more.Those were the top 10 best blogger template providers from a sea of template providers. If you think you know some theme provider who provides splendid templates, we would be happy to know about them in the comments below.We hope it simplified your blogger template selection.
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Are you one of modern day bloggers without much knowledge of technical details, looking to enhance your blog's ratings and audience but don't know how to and your blogger friend told you that you can get a hike into your site visitors via editing your Robots.txt file? Or maybe you don't want search engines spiders to crawl through your pages? Or you do have a technical background but don't want to risk making changes without expert's words on topic? Well in either case, this is the right place for you to be. In this tutorial, you will see how to add Custom Robots.txt file in Blogger in a few easy steps.
But before we open and start working on Robots.txt, let's have a brief overview of its significance:
Warning! Use with caution. Incorrect use of these features can result in your blog being ignored by search engines.
User-agent:Media partners-Google:
Mediapartners-Google is Google's AdSense robot that would often crawl your site looking for relevant ads to serve on your blog or site. If you disallow this option, they won't be able to see any ads on your specified posts or pages. Similarly, if you are not using Google AdSense ads on your site, simply remove both these lines.
User-agent: *
Those of you with little programming experience must have guessed the symbolic nature of character '*' (wildcard). For others, it specifies that this portion (and the lines beneath) is for all of you incoming spiders, robots, and crawlers.
Disallow: /search
Keyword Disallow, specifies the 'not to' do things for your blog. Add /search next to it, and that means you are guiding robots not to crawl the search pages /search results of your site. Therefore, a page result like http://myblog.blogspot.com/search/label/mylabel will never be crawled and indexed.
Allow: /
Keyword Allow specifies 'to do' things for your blog. Adding '/' means that the robot may crawl your homepage.
Sitemap:
Keyword Sitemap refers to our blogs sitemap; the given code here tells robots to index every new post. By specifying it with a link, we are optimizing it for efficient crawling for incoming guests, through which incoming robots will find path to our entire blog posts links, ensuring none of our posted blog posts will be left out from the SEO perspective.
However by default, the robot will index only 25 posts, so if you want to increase the number of index files, then replace the sitemap link with this one:
1. Sign in to you blogger account and click on your blog.
2. Go to Settings > Search Preferences > Crawlers and indexing.
3. Select 'Edit' next to Custom robots.txt and check the 'Yes' check box.
4. Paste your code or make changes as per your needs.
5. Once you are done, press Save Changes button.
6. And congratulations, you are done!
In any case, from SEO and site ratings it's important to make that tiny bit of changes to your robots.txt file, so don't be a sloth. Learning is fun, as long as its free, isn't it?
But before we open and start working on Robots.txt, let's have a brief overview of its significance:
Warning! Use with caution. Incorrect use of these features can result in your blog being ignored by search engines.
What is Robots.txt?
With every blog that you create/post on your site, a related Robots.txt file is auto-generated by Blogger. The purpose of this file is to inform incoming robots (spiders, crawlers etc. sent by search engines like Google, Yahoo) about your blog, its structure and to tell whether or not to crawl pages on your blog. You as a blogger would like certain pages of your site to be indexed and crawled by search engines, while others you might prefer not to be indexed, like a label page, demo page or any other irrelevant page.How do they see Robots.txt?
Well, Robots.txt is the first thing these spiders view as soon as they reach your site. Your Robots.txt is like a hour flight attendant, that directs you to your seat and keep checking that you don't enter private areas. Therefore, all the incoming spiders would only index files that Robots.txt would tell to, keeping others saved from indexing.Where is Robots.txt located?
You can easily view your Robots.txt file either on your browser by adding /robots.txt to your blog address like http://myblog.blogspot.com/robots.txt or by simply signing into your blog and choosing Settings > Search engine Preference > Crawlers and indexing and selecting Edit next to Custom robots.txt.How Robots.txt does looks like?
If you haven't touched your robots.txt file yet, it should look something like this:User-agent: Mediapartners-GoogleDon't worry if it isn't colored or there isn't any line breaks in code, I colored it and placed line breaks so that you may understand what these words mean.
Disallow:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /search
Allow: /
Sitemap: http://myblog.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?orderby=UPDATED
User-agent:Media partners-Google:
Mediapartners-Google is Google's AdSense robot that would often crawl your site looking for relevant ads to serve on your blog or site. If you disallow this option, they won't be able to see any ads on your specified posts or pages. Similarly, if you are not using Google AdSense ads on your site, simply remove both these lines.
User-agent: *
Those of you with little programming experience must have guessed the symbolic nature of character '*' (wildcard). For others, it specifies that this portion (and the lines beneath) is for all of you incoming spiders, robots, and crawlers.
Disallow: /search
Keyword Disallow, specifies the 'not to' do things for your blog. Add /search next to it, and that means you are guiding robots not to crawl the search pages /search results of your site. Therefore, a page result like http://myblog.blogspot.com/search/label/mylabel will never be crawled and indexed.
Allow: /
Keyword Allow specifies 'to do' things for your blog. Adding '/' means that the robot may crawl your homepage.
Sitemap:
Keyword Sitemap refers to our blogs sitemap; the given code here tells robots to index every new post. By specifying it with a link, we are optimizing it for efficient crawling for incoming guests, through which incoming robots will find path to our entire blog posts links, ensuring none of our posted blog posts will be left out from the SEO perspective.
However by default, the robot will index only 25 posts, so if you want to increase the number of index files, then replace the sitemap link with this one:
Sitemap: http://myblog.blogspot.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500And if you have more than 500 published posts, then you can use these two sitemaps like below:
Sitemap: http://myblog.blogspot.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500
Sitemap: http://myblog.blogspot.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=500&max-results=1000
How to prevent posts/pages from being indexed and crawled?
In case you haven't yet discovered yourself, here is how to stop spiders from crawling and indexing particular pages or posts:Disallow Particular Post
Disallow: /yyyy/mm/post-url.htmlThe /yyy/mm part specifies your blog posts publishing year and month and /post-url.html is the page you want them not to crawl. To prevent a post from being indexed/crawled simply copy the URL of your post that you want to exclude from indexing and remove the blog address from the beginning.
Disallow Particular Page
To disallow a particular page, you can use the same method as above. Just copy the page URL and remove your blog address from it, so that it will look something like this:Disallow: /p/page-url.html
Adding Custom Robots.Txt to Blogger
Now let's see how exactly you can add Custom Robots.txt file in Blogger:1. Sign in to you blogger account and click on your blog.
2. Go to Settings > Search Preferences > Crawlers and indexing.
3. Select 'Edit' next to Custom robots.txt and check the 'Yes' check box.
4. Paste your code or make changes as per your needs.
5. Once you are done, press Save Changes button.
6. And congratulations, you are done!
How to see if changes are being made to Robots.txt?
As explained above, simply type your blog address in the url bar of your browser and add /robots.txt at the end of your url as you can see in this example below:http://helplogger.blogspot.com/robots.txtOnce you visit the robots.txt file, you will see the code which you are using in your custom robots.txt file. See the below screenshot:
Final Words:
Are we through then bloggers? Are you done adding the Custom Robots.txt in Blogger? It was easy, once you knew what those code words meant. If you couldn't get it for the first time, just go again through the tutorial and before long, you will be customizing your friends' robots.txt files.In any case, from SEO and site ratings it's important to make that tiny bit of changes to your robots.txt file, so don't be a sloth. Learning is fun, as long as its free, isn't it?
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