More on Blogger Meta Tag Issue

A couple of comments came in on my post Important Notice to Blogger Blog Owners that made me realize I hadn't included a full description of what I ended up doing.

As a reminder the problem is that Blogger had inserted:

<meta name="ROBOTS" content="NOINDEX,NOFOLLOW"$gt

This tells the Google spider not to index this page.

To get rid of it, you can remove:

<$BlogMetaData$>

However, this also removes a few other lines from your file that includes your autodiscovery of RSS feeds. So, what you really want to do is:

1. Go to your blog
2. View Source - Original
3. See if you have the NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW
4. If you do, then keep that View Source window open
5. Go to Blogger
6. Edit your template and remove the BlogMetaData tag
7. Preview your Blog
8. View Source - with it removed
9. Copy all the lines in the Original that it had been inserting except for the ROBOTS
10. Paste those into your template manually
11. Preview
12. Save

Unfortunately, this means that future changes by Blogger to Meta Data you won't get automatically. Of course, getting NOFOLLOW was a great new feature for them to add.