| Most blog hosts remove a blog if its inactive after 30 days, but this still gives sites such as Google and Yahoo! time to index the page and your archived pages. Your blog is stored and displayed as a cached page for eternity or until your hosting service files for bankruptcy and erases its servers, whichever comes first. For this reason, seriously consider each post. In addition, consider these options: Turn off Weblog.com notification. You can find this in most blog host setup pages. Allow only members of the blog host site to comment on your blog, or only registered team members of the blog. Turn off archiving. This prevents archived posts from having their own URL that indexers will find. Place a script in your blog template that notifies search engines and crawler bots not to index your site. Place this entry between the <head></head> tags in your blog's template if you have access to it: <META name="ROBOTS" content="NOINDEX,NOFOLLOW" /> Do not publish a site feed for your blog. You can learn more about site feeds online at www.blogsbestof.com.
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