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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.

posted 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.

 

Id confirm from my experience it happens within a week at most on both blogger and word press.

 

Yes, many of the search engines do index blogs. The googlebots are crawling everywhere, and so are the bots of the other search engines. If you ping using some of the pinging services, you should find your blog posts getting indexed quite fast, even within a few hours. In WP, there's a section where you can add sites for pinging each time you publish a new post!

Cheers!

 

From personal experience the googlebots like blogs

 

From personal experience the googlebots like blogs

 

I don't know about wordpress but in case of blogspot it is true.
When ever you create a new post in blogspot it gets crawled by google but don't shows in deep indexing.
Check the query site:www.sitename.com and you will see that new posting is there in the results.

Post regularly other wise the blog won't get crawled

 

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