How to Fix Crawl and Indexing Problem in Your Blogger Site

If you are running a blog, it is important to make sure that search engines like Google can find and rank your content. Here is a simple guide to help you set up your Blogger blog correctly to avoid issues with crawling and indexing. This will help search engines understand and show your content in search results more easily.

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What is Crawling?

Crawling is when search engines like Google send bots to find pages on the internet. These bots follow links and scan pages to understand the content, helping search engines see if your content matches what people are searching for.

What is Search Engine Indexing?

After crawling, indexing happens. Search engines decide if the page should be saved in their database. Once indexed search engines can quickly find and show your page in search results when people look for related topics.

Search Engine Cycle

The search engine cycle generally follows these steps:

1. Step 1:Crawling:

   Search engine bots discover your pages.

2. Step 2:Indexing:

   The pages get saved in the search engines database.

3. Step 3:Ranking:

   Based on several factors, search engines decide where to place your page on results pages.

4. Step 4:Displaying Results:

   Users see your indexed pages in search results.

Blog Settings - Privacy

• Go to Settings > Privacy.
• Ensure Visible to search engines is turned ON.
• This allows search engines to crawl your blog.

Crawl and Index Settings

• In Settings, scroll down to Crawlers and Indexing.
• Enable custom robots.txt: Just copy the given code below and paste in blog.

  The given file below instructs search engines on which parts of your site to crawl or ignore. Here is an example:

  Robots.Txt

  
  User-agent: *
  Disallow: /search
  Allow: /
  Sitemap: [Your Sitemap URL]
      

  Replace [Your Sitemap URL] with the actual link to your sitemap.

Enable custom robots header tags

Tags for different parts of your blog, like homepage, archive, and posts.

• Home Page Tags: All, noodp
• Archive and Search Pages: noindex,noodp
• Default for Posts and Pages: All,noodp

Submit a Sitemap to Google Search Console

Go to Google Search Console and add your blog if you have not.Under Index > Sitemaps, paste the last part of your Blogger sitemap URL and submit it.

Sitemap

atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500

How to Avoid Crawl and Index Issues

1. Regularly Update Your Blog: Adding fresh content shows search engines that your blog is active.
2. Use Clear, Descriptive URLs and Titles: This helps search engines understand what your page is about.
3. Check for Crawl Errors in Google Search Console: Regularly check for errors to fix issues quickly.
4. Avoid Duplicate Content: Duplicate content can confuse search engines and hurt your blogs ranking.

Final Summary

By following these steps, you can help search engines crawl and index your blog more effectively, increasing the chances that your content will show up in search results.