Comments on: How to Prevent Google Bot from Indexing Your Blogspot Blog

By: Callum

Callum — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:46:00 +0000

Another reason is that the blog contents might be showing up somewhere else (such as through an RSS feed on the site) and they might not want it indexed twice?

Thanks for this article.

By: Rajeev Edmonds

Rajeev Edmonds — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 06:15:52 +0000

@mm

As Kristine gave an example of ‘Private Blog’ . Similarly, if you have a test blog, then obviously you will never want it to be indexed.

By: Kristine

Kristine — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 06:04:44 +0000

We have a private blog that we use as a journal to keep in contact with friends – we’d like it private without indexing. I followed your instructions and I get the error: “Your template could not be parsed as it is not well-formed. Please make sure all XML elements are closed properly.
XML error message: Open quote is expected for attribute “{1}” associated with an element type “name”.”

Please update with correct code. Many of my friends would be interested in this!

By: Roger Green

Roger Green — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:40:03 +0000

Nuts, no one else asked, so I guess I will: why would someone want Googlebots NOT to go to their site? Maybe there’s an obvious reason but it’s lost on me.

By: mm

mm — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 04:32:25 +0000

I wonder why some blog owners want to prevent google from indexing. they dont want traffic?