How to Add Custom Robots.txt File in Blogger (Blogspot)? 

For better performance of our blog we need to optimize it for better SEO. A better SEO is also needed to get organic traffic from search engines. One great step towards a better SEO is adding robots.txt file to your blog.

 It tells the search engines crawlers about what page to crawl and what not to. In Blogger (Blogspot) we have the option to customize the robots.txt file according to our needs. But before adding it to your blog firstly as a beginner we need to know about what is robots.txt file. So lets start

What is Robots.txt?

Robots.txt is a file which tells the search engine crawlers what page to crawl and what not to. Simply, you can exempt your blog demo pages, label pages, archive pages and other which you don't consider as important. Search engine crawlers always scan the robots.txt file before crawling any blog.

So lets start adding this great SEO improver to your blog.

Adding Robots.txt to Blogger (Blogspot) Blogs:

To add Custom Robots.txt file to your blog, follow the basic steps mentioned below:

1. Go to your blogger blog.
2. Navigate to Settings >> Search Preferences ›› 
   

 

3. Crawlers and indexing ›› Custom robots.txt ›› Edit ›› Yes

4. Now paste the below robots.txt file code in the box.

User-agent: Mediapartners-Google
Disallow:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /search
Allow: /

Sitemap: http://example.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?orderby=UPDATED

5. Remember to change the highlighted url (example.blogspot.com) with your blog address.
6. Click on Save Changes button.