February 8, 2008
Does Google Automatically Index New Blogspot and WordPress Blogs?
If you have a brand new site on Blogspot or WordPress, does it automatically get indexed in search engines?
In my experience, the answer was actually yes! But some others believe that it doesn't always happen.
Tedster, for example, says the following:
Without any external links, Google is not likely to index any site, whether it's a blog or not. They're definitely not likely to keep in the index for very long even, if they do discover the url somehow.
(And that's true. My rankings dropped for awhile a few weeks after the site but then they returned.)
As another person says, it depends on if it pings the search engines:
I think that if your blog automatically pings update services, it will eventually be discovered by search engines.
And incrediBILL confirms what I said:
I hate to burst some naysayers bubbles but Google indexed and ranked one of my new blogspot sites in less than 2 hours.
Finally, a question is asked:
Is Google favouring Blogger/Blogspot because they own it? If so... is that fair on people who use other blogging services?
Rest easy, my friend. My site that got indexed immediately was a WordPress blog hosted on its own domain. ;)
Forum discussion continues at WebmasterWorld.
Tamar Weinberg in Google Optimization at February 8, 2008 9:42 AM
Comments (6)
Comments
yes Google and other engines do index them even if you don't submit them or build any links. The reason being that there are lots of automated whois sites grab data on new domain names / existing names etc to check for new registrations and/or expiring domains.
Anyway, often these are listed out on a page somewhere, Google can then follow this even if its not an active link, Google will still check out the url.
Anywho, the short answer is yes for a number of reasons... any site, any domain unless you have a robots txt or other protection to stop it happening.
Blogs are more inclined to be indexed and placed in the index faster since universal search came into practice... this happens when you see a time stamp next to the result.
Posted by David at February 8, 2008 12:23