Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'blogspot'

A Google Groups thread discusses the ramifications content warning pages have on search engine visibility. See, if your blog has questionable content, the Google Blogger platform will put up a warning page. However, the problem is that this page itself...

Posted on December 1, 2008 9:37 AM

Over the past couple weeks, we reported about two issues: (1) Did Google Stop Crawling Blogger Blogs on Personalized Domains? (2) Google Bloggers Having Sitemap File & Continued Crawling Issues? Google seems to have resolved both issues. The Google Groups...

Posted on August 14, 2008 8:38 AM

There have been reports with Google's Blogger tool and Sitemaps not working well together. A Google Groups thread notes that those submitting a Sitemap file to Google Webmaster Tools, and using Google's Blogger service, are having issues. Many who have...

Posted on August 12, 2008 8:32 AM

There are threads at Google Groups and DigitalPoint Forums with multiple reports of Google not crawling Blogger hosted blogs, that are on custom or private domains (i.e. not on blogspot.com domains). Many have reported that the Googlebot crawling has stopped...

Posted on August 7, 2008 8:26 AM

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