Need help with Link List on blogger

Thanks a ton Prayag!! I did exactly what you asked me to do and it worked absolutely fine.

Thanks a lot Vijay.

Happy Diwali to both of you.

Welcome bro Happy Diwali to you

ok will do the same Prayag thank you once more 

Sure that helps Prayag  You suggest that I let the robots.txt be as it is right?

BTW very happy DEEPAWALI to you

I am suggesting that the robots.txt should be like

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User-agent: Mediapartners-Google
Disallow: 

User-agent: *
Disallow: /search
Allow: /

Sitemap:  http://www.comboupdates.com/feeds/posts/default?orderby=UPDATED

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Which is Blogger's default (a.k.a. No Custom robots.txt )

Hi Kapil 

I checked your blog and found that the gadget was indeed a  TextList ( See Screenshot ) . Recently Blogger has had a lot of problems , maybe they would have converted the LinkList Gadget to a TextList gadget from the backend. Another change that happened was that the rather then the new element adding in the top of the list , it is adding at the bottom of the list.

I would say the best way to solve this problem is that was make a new HTML/JavaScript gadget and copy this code into it (Its your Current widgets code )

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<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.flipkart.com/big-short/p/itmczyrhe5hbcwy4?pid=9780141043531&amp;affid=kapsrulesg" target="_new">Big Short</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.flipkart.com/breakout-nations-pursuit-next-economic-miracles/p/itmdg42bdzxv85wh?pid=9780241957813&amp;affid=kapsrulesg" target="_new">Breakout Nations</a></li> 

<li><a href="http://www.flipkart.com/crash-proof-2-0-profit-economic-collapse/p/itmdy2faqmgfbmvt?pid=9788126526208&amp;affid=kapsrulesg" target="_new">Crash Proof 2.0</a></li> 

<li><a href="http://www.flipkart.com/damodaran-valuation-security-analysis-investment-corporate-finance-2nd/p/itmczza6j5cz2gme?pid=9780471751212&amp;affid=kapsrulesg" target="_new">Damodaran On Valuation</a></li> 

<li><a href="http://www.flipkart.com/economics-one-lesson-shortest-surest-way-understand-basic/p/itmdyy4fyyvrkngx?pid=9780517548233&amp;affid=kapsrulesg" target="_new">Economics in One Lesson</a></li> 

<li><a href="http://www.flipkart.com/fault-lines-hidden-fractures-still-threaten-world-economy/p/itmczzmcug95qfue?pid=9788172239732&amp;affid=kapsrulesg" target="_new">Fault Lines</a></li> 

<li><a href="http://www.flipkart.com/financial-shenanigans-detect-accounting-gimmicks-fraud-reports-0003/p/itmczyz8pywqh3kk?pid=9780071703079&amp;affid=kapsrulesg" target="_new">Financial Shenanigans</a></li> 

<li><a href="http://www.flipkart.com/fooled-randomness-hidden-role-chance-life-markets/p/itmczyrgfmqyxtzd?pid=9780141031484&amp;affid=kapsrulesg" target="_new">Fooled by Randomness</a></li> 

<li><a href="http://www.flipkart.com/freakonomics-rogue-economist-explores-hidden-side-everything/p/itmczyn4vzmf9dzr?pid=9780141019017&amp;affid=kapsrulesg" target="_new">Freakonomics</a></li> 

<li><a href="http://www.flipkart.com/investment-biker-around-world-jim-rogers/p/itmczza2ybneetra?pid=9780812968712&amp;affid=kapsrulesg" target="_new">Investment Biker</a></li> 

<li><a href="http://www.flipkart.com/irrational-exuberance-second/p/itmdyyffhxgqgydr?pid=9780767923637&amp;affid=kapsrulesg" target="_new">Irrational Exuberance</a></li> 

<li><a href="http://www.flipkart.com/liar-s-poker/p/itmczz2xtnfvmcxh?pid=9780340839966&amp;affid=kapsrulesg" target="_new">Liar's Poker</a></li> 

<li><a href="http://www.amazon.in/gp/product/0887305105/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=3626&amp;creative=24790&amp;creativeASIN=0887305105&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=kapleatoinv-21" target="_new">Margin of Safety</a></li> 

<li><a href="http://www.flipkart.com/rich-dad-poor/p/itmdykzfvphpgbtg?pid=9781612680019&amp;affid=kapsrulesg" target="_new">Rich Dad Poor Dad</a></li> 

<li><a href="http://www.flipkart.com/security-analysis-principles-technique-3rd/p/itmczyz5yugkteas?pid=9780071448208&amp;affid=kapsrulesg" target="_new">Security Analysis</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.amazon.in/gp/product/1587991888/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=3626&amp;creative=24790&amp;creativeASIN=1587991888&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=kapleatoinv-21" target="_new">Seeking Wisdom</a></li> 

<li>The Art of Thinking Clearly</li> 

<li><a href="http://www.flipkart.com/black-swan-impact-highly-improbable/p/itmczyrh67fgkydc?pid=9780141034591&amp;affid=kapsrulesg" target="_new">The Black Swan</a></li> 

<li><a href="http://www.flipkart.com/checklist-manifesto-get-things-right/p/itmczzyejvgtkuq8?pid=9780143068655&amp;affid=kapsrulesg" target="_new">The Checklist Manifesto</a></li> 

<li><a href="http://www.flipkart.com/dark-side-valuation-valuing-young-distressed-complex-businesses-2nd/p/itmczyque9sr72ms?pid=9780137126897&amp;affid=kapsrulesg" target="_new">The Dark Side of Valuation</a></li> 

<li><a href="http://www.flipkart.com/dhandho-investor-low-risk-value-method-high-returns-1st/p/itmczz9ftshh4zyr?pid=9780470043899&amp;affid=kapsrulesg" target="_new">The Dhandho Investor</a></li> 

<li><a href="http://www.flipkart.com/the-intelligent-investor/p/itmczyn5bzyw3ekc?pid=9780062312686&amp;affid=kapsrulesg" target="_new">The Intelligent Investor</a></li> 

<li><a href="http://www.flipkart.com/little-book-behavioral-investing-not-your-own-worst-enemy/p/itmczz9qma7uwd2b?pid=9780470686027&amp;affid=kapsrulesg" target="_new">The Little Book of Behavioral Investing</a></li> 

<li><a href="http://www.amazon.in/gp/product/8126507977/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=3626&amp;creative=24790&amp;creativeASIN=8126507977&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=kapleatoinv-21" target="_new">The Little Book that Beats the Market</a></li> 

<li><a href="http://www.flipkart.com/road-serfdom-text-documents/p/itmczyxgfc8j8efc?pid=9780226320557&amp;affid=kapsrulesg" target="_new">The Road to Serfdom</a></li> 

<li><a href="http://www.flipkart.com/thinking-fast-slow/p/itmd9z2fx7azzxw6?pid=9780141033570&amp;affid=kapsrulesg" target="_new">Thinking Fast and Slow</a></li> 

<li><a href="http://www.flipkart.com/value-investing-behavioral-finance-1st/p/itmczynzfazcbvcc?pid=9780070077638&amp;affid=kapsrulesg" target="_new">Value Investing and Behavioral Finance</a></li> 

<li><a href="http://www.flipkart.com/you-can-stock-market-genius/p/itmczzhjw5mysyhh?pid=9780684840079&amp;affid=kapsrulesg" target="_new">You can be a Stock Market Genius</a></li> 

</ul>

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Now , its really easy to enter new items or update them . You will just need to switch to the Rich Text mode when editing this HTML/JavaScript gadget (see screenshot) 

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ynhHMfmddHc/UnYFlDd-ycI/AAAAAAAAM9Y/3LMdmWzCK4k/s1600/richtextclick.png

Hope this helps

Nice Prayag would you be kind to help me out.  I had disabled the Robots.txt in my blogger yet the WMT keeps blocking URLS from search due to robots.txt.  Now I have enabled it with just one parameter follow  /

Can you tell me exactly what I should do ?

Hi Vijay

Firstly I would suggest that you use the default Robots.txt for your blog . The reason being ,  label pages have been blocked because they don't have any content of there own and there are chances that a duplication penalty might be applied to your site. As Blogger uses rel=canonical tags on each post page , chances of a penalty are very rare but as they have been blocked by deafult in all Blogger blogs , there must be some valid reason behind it.

If you still want to keep indexing the label pages, then when I checked your site's label pages on Google , this is what I saw http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rHb_WPwFDC0/UnYyH02w8uI/AAAAAAAAM90/UkFZ2EQahuk/s1600/robots.png

As you can see , the robots.txt is still blocking them , I think that the problem is that the robots.txt updates have not yet been picked by Google.There is a meta tag for revisit-after but it doesn't seem to be used by Google nowYou can also try submitting the robots.txt to https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/submit-url and see if it works. Google updates the search index very actively but sometimes for specific sites this might take longer as each website has a different crawl rate assigned to them

As your blog has around  300 labels , this shouldn't take much time once the robots.txt has been picked by Googlebot

But I would still suggest to reconsider this decision , as there might be negative outcomes for your site's ranking due to duplicate content problems

Hope this helps and Happy Diwali

Can you post the entire html code of the widget here