Blogger Search Preferences For Redirects, Robots.txt, Meta Descriptions & More

Mar 22, 2012 - 8:03 am 12 by

Blogger LogoGoogle's Blogger has added several new "search preferences" settings to the Blogger administration controls.

You can now configure your robots.txt file, meta descriptions, meta tags, set up redirects, customize your error pages, add alt and title attributes to links and even add the nofollow attribute to the links.

The Google Operating System blog uses blogger and they posted a screen shot of one of the search settings page:

Blogger Search Preferences

Here are help documents on how to use each of these new features:

For the general blogger and SEO document see this page.

Forum discussion at Google+.

 

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