Add Custom Robots.txt file in Blogger

What is Robots.txt?

Robots.txt is a text file which contains few lines of simple code. It is saved on the website or blog’s server which instruct the web crawlers to how to index and crawl your blog in the search results. That means you can restrict any web page on your blog from web crawlers so that it can’t get indexed in search engines like your blog labels page, your demo page or any other pages that are not as important to get indexed. Always remember that search crawlers scan the robots.txt file before crawling any web page.

Each blog hosted on blogger have its default robots.txt file which is something look like this:

User-agent: Mediapartners-Google
Disallow:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /search
Allow: /
Sitemap: http://example.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?orderby=UPDATED

Explanation

This code is divided into three sections. Let’s first study each of them after that we will learn how to add custom robots.txt file in blogspot blogs.

1.      User-agent: Mediapartners-Google

This code is for Google Adsense robots which help them to serve better ads on your blog. Either you are using Google Adsense on your blog or not simply leave it as it is.

·         User-agent: *

This is for all robots marked with asterisk (*). In default settings our blog’s labels links are restricted to indexed by search crawlers that means the web crawlers will not index our labels page links because of below code.

Disallow: /search

That means the links having keyword search just after the domain name will be ignored. See below example which is a link of label page named SEO.

http://www.bloggertipstricks.com/search/label/SEO

And if we remove Disallow: /search from the above code then crawlers will access our entire blog to index and crawl all of its content and web pages.

Here Allow: / refers to the Homepage that means web crawlers can crawl and index our blog’s homepage.

Disallow Particular Post
Now suppose if we want to exclude a particular post from indexing then we can add below lines in the code.

Disallow: /yyyy/mm/post-url.html

Here yyyy and mm refers to the publishing year and month of the post respectively. For example if we have published a post in year 2013 in month of March then we have to use below format.

Disallow: /2013/03/post-url.html

To make this task easy, you can simply copy the post URL and remove the blog name from the beginning.

Disallow Particular Page
If we need to disallow a particular page then we can use the same method as above. Simply copy the page URL and remove blog address from it which will something look like this:

Disallow: /p/page-url.html

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

This code refers to the sitemap of our blog. By adding sitemap link here we are simply optimizing our blog’s crawling rate. Means whenever the web crawlers scan our robots.txt file they will find a path to our sitemap where all the links of our published posts present. Web crawlers will find it easy to crawl all of our posts. Hence, there are better chances that web crawlers crawl all of our blog posts without ignoring a single one.

Note: This sitemap will only tell the web crawlers about the recent 25 posts. If you want to increase the number of link in your sitemap then replace default sitemap with below one. It will work for first 500 recent posts

Sitemap: http://example.blogspot.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500

If you have more than 500 published posts in your blog then you can use two sitemaps like below:

Sitemap: http://example.blogspot.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500
Sitemap: http://example.blogspot.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=500&max-results=1000

Adding Custom Robots.Txt to Blogger

Now the main part of this tutorial is how to add custom robots.txt in blogger. So below are steps to add it.

1.      Go to your blogger blog.

2.      Navigate to Settings >> Search Preferences ›› Crawlers and indexing ››Custom robots.txt ›› Edit ›› Yes

3.      Now paste your robots.txt file code in the box.

4.      Click on Save Changes button.

5.      You are done!

How to Check Your Robots.txt File?

You can check this file on your blog by adding /robots.txt at last to your blog URL in the browser.

Kerala Honeymoon Package

Honeymoon Package -  (03N/04D) Routing: Cochin > Munnar > Houseboat > Cochin

Day 1: Cochin - Munnar ______________________________________________ Your journey into the deep south behind with your arrival in Cochin, where you will be met for a transfer to Munnar. Famous for its tea estates, this picturesque hill station is the biggest tea producer in south India. Located 1,600 m above the sea level, it was once the summer resort of the erstwhile British government in the region. The sprawling tea plantations, quaint towns, winding lanes and holiday facilities make this a popular resort destination. After you check in, you have the rest of the day to spend at your leisure. Overnight at the hotel.

Day 2: Munnar ______________________________________________________ After a hearty breakfast, begin your day with a spot of sightseeing. On the agenda are the Eravikulam National Park, the natural habitat of the Nilgiri Tahr, a kind of ibex; the Mattupetty Dam; Echo Point and the wonderful sights of the town itself. Then you head back to the hotel for a hot dinner! This is the second and last night at Munnar, after which you proceed to the next destination.

Day 3: Munnar - Alleppey _____________________________________________ Now it’s on to the backwaters hub of Alleppey once you get done with breakfast. On arrival, head to a houseboat for an overnight cruise through the scenic backwaters of Alleppey that involve a cruise through palm-fringed canals and a priceless, insider’s glimpse of the village folk, perhaps at work in the paddy fields, even as the sussurrant sound of breeze wafting through the palms relaxes and rejuvenates you! This mysterious strip of emerald green land has endless miles of placid backwaters. Cruise till 5.30-6 pm in the evening by which time, you halt in the lake itself for an overnight stay within the comforts of the a/c deluxe houseboat.

Day 4: Alleppey - Cochin ____________________________________________ Disembark Houseboat and on time transfer to Cochin Airport to connect your onward flight.

How to create VAT Ledger in Tally

How to create VAT Ledger in Tally?

Normally you will be create Four Type of Ledgers for VAT Transactions.

Purchase Ledgers
Sales Ledgers
Input VAT Ledgers
Output VAT Ledgers

Create Purchase Ledgers: Purchase Leger creation is based on your company requirements. For Example, if your company purchased material 5% VAT and 14.5% VAT, then you will be create two types of Purchase Ledgers. (i.e: Purchases 5% & Purchases 14.5%).

Gateway of Tally > Accounts Info. > Ledgers > Create

> Enter Ledger Name as Purchases 5%
> In the Under field, select Purchase Accounts from the List of Groups.
> Set the field Used in VAT Returns to Yes
> From the VAT/TAX Class, Select Purchases@5%
> Press Ctrl+A, to save the Ledger.

In the same way create another Ledger Purchase 14.5%

Create Sales Ledgers: Sales Leger creation is based on your company requirements. For Example, if your company sale Goods  5% VAT and 14.5% VAT, then you will be create two Sales Ledgers. (i.e: Sales 5% & Sales 14.5%)

Gateway of Tally > Accounts Info. > Ledgers > Create

> Enter Ledger Name as Sales 5%
> In the Under field, select Sales Accounts from the List of Groups.
> Set the field Used in VAT Returns to Yes
> From the VAT/TAX Class, Select Sales@5%
> Press Ctrl+A, to save the Ledger. 

In the same way create another Ledger Sales 14.5%

Create Input VAT Ledgers: In the above example, your have Purchased two VAT Rates Purchases, i.e, Purchases 5% & Purchases 14.5%, So, create Two Input VAT Ledgers.

1) Input VAT 5%
2) Input VAT 14.5%
  
Gateway of Tally > Accounts Info > Ledgers > Create

> Enter Ledger Name as Input VAT 5%
> In the Under field, Select Duties & Taxes 
> In the Type of Duty/Tax filed, Select VAT
> In the VAT Sub Type field, Select Input VAT
> In the VAT/TAX Class filed, Select Input VAT @ 5%
> In the Rounding Method filed, Select Not Applicable
> Press Ctrl+A, to save the Ledger.

In the same way create another Ledger Input VAT 14.5%

Create Output VAT Ledgers: In the above example, your have Sales two VAT Rates Sales, i.e, Sales 5% & Sales 14.5%, So, create Output VAT Ledgers.

1) Output VAT 5%
2) Output VAT 14.5%
  
Gateway of Tally > Accounts Info > Ledgers > Create

> Enter Ledger Name as Output VAT 5%
> In the Under field, Select Duties & Taxes 
> In the Type of Duty/Tax filed, Select VAT
> In the VAT Sub Type field, Select Output VAT
> In the VAT/TAX Class filed, Select Output VAT @ 5%
> In the Rounding Method filed, Select Not Applicable
> Press Ctrl+A, to save the Ledger.

In the same way create another Ledger Output VAT 14.5%