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Kapil Chauhan
from Ghaziabad |

Hey Guys,

I created a list of books using the "Link List" gadget on blogger few months ago. Now when I am trying to add a new book to the list, it is showing as "text list" and is not allowing me to attach a hyperlink to the book.

All my other items in the list are hyperlinked to either flipkart or amazon. I am not sure why blogger is showing the list as "configure text list".

Please suggest something. I don't want to go through the process of create the book list with hyperlinks once again.

Thanks,

Kapil

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Vijay Prabhu
from Mumbai |

Can you post the entire html code of the widget here Innocent

Prayag Verma
from Noida |

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

Vijay Prabhu
from Mumbai |

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 ?

Prayag Verma
from Noida |

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

Vijay Prabhu
from Mumbai |

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

BTW very happy DEEPAWALI to you

Prayag Verma
from Noida |

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 )

Vijay Prabhu
from Mumbai |

ok will do the same Prayag thank you once more Smile

Kapil Chauhan
from Ghaziabad |

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.

Vijay Prabhu
from Mumbai |

Welcome bro Happy Diwali to you