Friday 21 April 2017

How to Overcome Duplicate Content in Blogger

How to Overcome Duplicate Content in Blogger. There are several things that cause duplicate content in blogger. Among these are duplicates that occur because archive pages, searches, and most commonly are duplicate content because of mobile version pages.

Then how to solve it to avoid duplicate content?. The trick is easy, but it should be tailored to the cause, so not all duplicate content can be resolved in the same way. Ok, just take a good look at the following way:

1. Duplicate Content Due to Page Label

In the default state of the actual page label has been set so as not indexed by search engines, namely the robots.txt file. But somehow, sometimes label pages are still indexed by search engines that ultimately lead to duplicate content.

The solution buddy should enter a special code manually into your blog template.

Please add your code below under the <head> code inside your blog template:

<b:if cond='data:blog.searchLabel'>
<meta content='noindex,nofollow' name='robots'/>
</b:if>

2. Duplicate Content Due to Archive and Search Page

To overcome duplicate content that occurs because the archive page and the search is very easy, no need to enter special codes, my friend only need to set the setting of search preferences on your blog dashboard.

Go to your blog dashboard> Settings> Search preferences> Enable custom robot header tags. Next stay adjust as shown below:


3. Duplicate Content Due to Mobile Version Page

The most common cause of duplicate content that occurs in bloggers is because of the mobile version of the blogger because every post in the blogger has three different URLs with the same content.

Like this example:
Original URL: yourblog404.blogspot.com/2015/09/posting.html
Mobile version URL: yourblog404.blogspot.com/2015/09/posting.html?m=1
Desktop version URL: yourblog404.blogspot.com/2015/09/posting.html?m=0

If all the above URLs are indexed Google then there will be 3 duplicate content in one post.

Why do I get indexed?. After researching more deeply about this issue I find that this is happening because of the use of blogger template Valid HTML.

How come?. Average HTML blogger template removes some important code in blogger. One of them is <b: include data = 'blog' name = 'all-head-content' />.

One of the functions of the code is to display the rel = "canonical" code that is important for dealing with duplicate content.

There are some valid HTML templates that manually encoded the rel = "canonical" code, but the code can not function properly.

So how is the solution?

There are 3 solutions to choose from:

# 1. The first solution: Change Template.

# 2. Second solution: If so, delete this code inside the template:

<link expr:href='data:blog.url' rel='canonical'/>

Keep this code under <head>:

<b:include data='blog' name='all-head-content'/>

# 3. Final solution: If the template you use has a responsive design, you can put this code right under the code <head>:

<b:if cond='data:blog.isMobile'>
<meta content='noindex,nofollow' name='robots'/>
</b:if>

All of the above have been my own practice and the results at that time (before moving to WordPress) my blog does not experience anymore whose name duplicate content. But even so I am not responsible if after practicing the way above your blog is lost from search results or deindex.

It is important to know, after applying the way above my friend can not directly see the results, it took weeks for months to see the results. My blog alone takes about a month more before finally free from duplicate content issues.

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