Thursday, 9 May 2013

Make Blogger Labels noFollow-SEO Tips




Hello Readers, This post will tell you why and how to make the entire labels link in your blogger blog nofollow. You must be familiar with the term nofollow. I have posted about it in my earlier posts. nofollow and dofollow links plays very important role in blogging. But in this post we will be talking about applying nofollow attribute to the labels in your blog. You must have heard about the Google Panda. Google Panda is a strict algorithm by Google which can make your blogging life worse if your blog does not qualify the quality norms of this Algorithm.
make blogger labels nofollow

If your blog contains too many labels or duplicate/irrelevant content, you can be the next target of this algorithm. By ensuring the quality of your blog content you can avoid the ill effects of this algorithm. It is good to put 5-6 unique and relevant labels with your blog post, but if you use them in access it would degrade your blog's quality. The ill effects of Google Panda includes drop in the traffic which will be very harmful to any blog. So we will make all the labels in blogger blog nofollow to avoid such effects.

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How to Make Blogger Label nofollow

  • Login in to your Blogger Account.
  • Take a backup of your blog to avoid any loss. It is recommended before you make any changes to your blog template.
  • Now click on Edit HTML and Find the Following piece of code:
<a expr:href='data:label.url' rel='tag'>
  • Now we will add nofollow attribute to this code by appending nofollow to the rel attribute like this:
<a expr:href='data:label.url' rel='tag,nofollow'>
  • Click on Save and then on view Blog.

Note: It will make all the labels visible under your post nofollow. If you have labels in your sidebar in the form of tag cloud you need to make more changes, which are as follows-

  • Follow the above procedure and Search for the following code:
<a expr:dir='data:blog.languageDirection' expr:href='data:label.url'><data:label.name/></a>
  • Add nofollow to the anchor tag like this:
<a expr:dir='data:blog.languageDirection' expr:href='data:label.url' rel="nofollow"><data:label.name/></a>

You have successfully made your labels nofollow. If you want to check whether this trick worked or not, you can check it with Mozilla Firefox. Right click on any label on your blog using Mozilla and then click on Inspect element. It will show you the code of the selected label with nofollow attribute.

Nofollow tags are very important for SEO as well. Google does not pick the description of any of your labels, if you have ever edited the "robots.txt" file. So it is good to mark your labels nofollow. If you have any questions or problem in the above tutorial, you can comment here i will be glad to help you.

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Author: Mohammad Zafar Ahmad
Zafar Ahmad is PHP/Java Developer and a Passionate Blogger. He likes to write about Blogging tips, SEO tips, Blogger Widgets, Smart phones, Tablets and Online Earnings. You can find him on Facebook, Twitter or Google+

2 comments:

  1. Just a note: The line, "It is good to put 5-6 unique and relevant labels with your blog post, but if you use them in access it would degrade your blog's quality." The word "access" should be "excess" instead.

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    1. Oops my bad..! I will update it..Thanks for picking it out.. :P

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