Blogger Blogs Check Your Code
February 21st, 2007 by Tony
We have had a few people ask about the no index no follow tags appearing on some blogger blogs, there is a lot of discussion going on about it now so it should be pretty easy to find info about but here are the basics as I understand:
Blogger was/is generating code on some blogs that cause the search engines not to follow them…. so you might want to check yours out and see if yours is one of them.
It sounds like this may be more of an issue for people converting over to the new blogger, and it should be an easy fix if you are aware of it.
Here is an article that talks about it, if anyone has any more info feel free to comment.
Thanks
T
February 23rd, 2007 at 7:10 am
I always change my meta tag to read content=”index,follow”
to explicity tell the robots to follow the links as opposed to noindex,nofollow.
Its important to note that the noindex coding in the comments are not the same as the noindex coding that occassionaly shows up in the header section of your template.
In the header is bad for advertising. In the comments is good for preventing spam and good for preventing the degradation of advertising dollars. An advertiser would not want to pay for a bog article only to have a competitor come in after the fact and get a link for free.
February 25th, 2007 at 9:34 pm
Great Input Brett.
March 16th, 2007 at 5:54 pm
I’ve seen this come up a lot lately and some other places have actually been rejecting posts because of this, but it really isn’t a problem if a few things are taken into account.
Like Brett said about all the good and bad things of nofollow they do apply, but there really isn’t an issue in Blogger code that makes links nofollow unless the blog is set to private in the settings. That no follow is strictly for robots not to index it, but the code is not active if the blog is set to “yes” in the setting for Google to share it in their directories.
There are 3 instances of nofollow in the Blogger templates. The one just mentioned, one for comments, and one for backlinks tracking. Unless a blog it set to private there is no need for advertisers, or reviewers to ask for those tags to be removed. I have seen many people adding code to turn off all the nofollows in these templates and this is not what they want to do. Most of these blogs are already fine and have no issues since they are set to Live. If a reviewer is using FireFox all they have to do is simply highlight the link and click “view selection source”. If that code doesn’t have a nofollow tag in it than the link is fine.