Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'blogspot'

Over the weekend, I noticed reports from WebmasterWorld and DigitalPoint Forums suggesting that Google dropped .info and blogspot results from its index. First reports came in at around 9:50am (EST) on May 23rd at both forums. Massive panic actually started...

Posted on May 26, 2008 8:37 AM

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...

Posted on February 8, 2008 9:42 AM

Over at Cre8asite Forums, moderator Barry Welford has spotted an anomaly with the results of Google Blog Search when compared to Google's relevant search results. Barry asks what drives the poor quality of these search results. Perhaps it is the...

Posted on October 22, 2007 9:06 AM

A number of WebmasterWorld members who use Google's Blogspot application are reporting that when they log into Google Webmaster Tools, they're getting a lot of errors that many URLs are being restricted by robots.txt. However, blogspot.com users have no control...

Posted on October 10, 2007 9:46 AM

On a recurring theme of Internet spam, a study discussed in WebmasterWorld indicates that three out of four blogs -- or 75% -- are spam. According to the study (PDF link): ...14 of the top-15 doorway domains have a spam...

Posted on March 20, 2007 9:43 AM

A DigitalPoint Forums thread reports that all blogspot, blogger, blogs were not accessible starting around 5:20 am (EST) this morning. The first reports of the blogs coming back online was at 6:55 am. So the downtime was at least 1.5...

Posted on September 15, 2006 7:38 AM