Hi fellas,
Now that you have reached this page and this line, you would probably know you are in a WordPress blog. Had everything gone normally in my blogging life, this would have been a Blogger blog. Yeah that would be www.shadowspeak.blogspot.com. But i switched over to WordPress for a simple problem. My blogs in Blogger were just not getting listed in Google search. Even if i search the exact words i had blogged about, I still didn’t get the results in Google search. That was highly disappointing. The reason you,me or anyone would blog is for others to read our blogs, find it useful and start a discussion. But whats the purpose if your blog is not connected with people who are searching for something like your blog?
WordPress is just awesome in that respect. The moment i post something it gets listed in Google and so many other search engines in less than 24 hours. Great! Just what a blogger needs! I had one of my friends complaining to me about the same problem yesterday. he had posted a couple of dicey topics hoping to start off some hot discussion, but with no responses its understandable he’s a bit pissed off. After all if you are using Blogger, you are using Google’s blog and still you don’t get listed in Google search. Not funny MountainView!
And today I just found out why! Its because Google thinks that blogs are special. So special infact that they require a entirely different Search engine! Check out Google Blog Search A stroke of genius you say? I say No. Come on i don’t expect a majority people to search separately for blogs and websites. The difference has clearly been blurred in recent times with all the supposed news websites, changing into something like a blog. So suit up Google. Because for an ordinary user not really bothered about ads and other stuff and focussing mainly on the content of what he writes, Blogspot has become a major letdown. In that way WordPress really has a knack of not only getting listed in Google but also high up too.
P.S. Hope someone from the Blogger team reads this!
Links!
1. Blogspot.com
2. WordPress.org
3. Google search
4. Google Blog Search
As always
Ramji
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March 30, 2008 at 7:32 am
Hey Ramji,
Even if the blogger team read your post they can’t help you. Why? Because that is not how search engine works.
Google is not god to know everything that is going on. If you put a page in your server tomorrow and expect google to find it out, they aren’t gonna do it.
Google has search bots written in python. Several millions of them. Which go around everyday raiding people’s pages and finding links and then searching those pages and finding links in those pages and searching them and so on.
So technically for your blog to be known by the bots, it should have been linked by someone who is already listed in google. Maybe no one who was listed in the google already linked to your blog and hence when you searched the exact same words it didn’t appear.
This has nothing to do with wordpress or blogger.
That said, if you seriously want google to know that your blog exists even though people are not linking to it, tell them at http://google.com/addurl.html. Simple.
And yes, without knowing the problem stop complaining that google thinks blogs as special.
March 30, 2008 at 9:11 am
@Sagaro:
The line about the Blogger team was a sarcastic one. Don’t read too much into it. Come on I dont seriously expect anyone from blogger to read it (although I expect them to be looking out for feedback on the Net if they are really serious want to improve their service!)
And I know about python as well as the XML notification service that Google runs to allow people to ping it. But I’m talking in the perspective of someone who just starts blogging just for the fun of it. I was a first time user in both Blogspot and WordPress to start off with i.e. I didn’t have any links with people already listed by Google. But I was able to find my wordpress blog through Google and not my Blogger blog. Thats what drove me to write this.
All the stuff about pinging and pythons apart there are successful bloggers who don’t know a thing about it. For those bloggers content and readership is a priority. And it in this respect that I rate WordPress higher than Blogger.
Anyway thanks for the link. I was aware of the XML notification service by which we can notify google on updates to our site. This makes it simpler. Will try it out.