Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'google blog search'

Google Classifies Any Site With an RSS Feed as a Blog?

A WebmasterWorld thread has discussion around how Google seems to consider any web site that contains an RSS feed, as a blog. In fact, several webmasters are complaining that their web sites are showing in the Google Universal Results, under...

Google Blog Search Adds ATOM Feed, Latest Posts & Hot Queries

Google Blog Search announced the addition of a few features. The most noticeable changes are to the Google Blog Search home page, where Google now shows the top hot queries and the latest blog posts from popular blogs. Here is...

Google News Get Update & Blog Search Gets Improved

Google News and Google Blog search had updates over the weekend. Google News announced the visual update to their home page, while the Google Blog search update was not announced and less visual in nature. The Google News update includes...

Google Blog Search Updates Link Query Algorithm

A few weeks ago, we reported that Google released a major blog search update. That update fixed the issue with Google Blog Search finding content in the blogroll and thus showing irrelevant search results. It directly impacted the "blogroll detector"...

Google Releases Major Blog Search Blogroll Algorithm Update

The much awaited update to the Google Blog Search blogroll detector algorithm has finally been pushed through. An updated Google Groups thread has Googler, Jeremy Hylton saying: We have launched a ranking change that reduces the number of results that...

Google Postpones Blog Search Ranking Update

Two weeks ago, we reported that Google Blog Search To Test New Link Command Features Next Week. Well, it has now been postponed a bit. An updated Google Groups thread has Googler, Jeremy Hylton saying this has to be pushed...

Google Blog Search To Test New Link Command Features Next Week

Since November 2008, Google Blog search's link command has been scanning too much information, including blogrolls. Since then, Google vowed to fix the blogroll issue with the link command back in early December. At the end of December, Google said...

Google Testing Images In Blog Search Results?

A WebmasterWorld thread reports one member noticing receiving images in his Google Alerts from Google Blog search. It seems to be an extension of how Google News shows images near some articles. But in this case, this searcher is saying...

Google Blog Search May Not Discover Your New Blog Posts

A Google Groups thread has confirmed reports from Jeremy Hylton of Google, that Google blog search, in some cases, has issues finding and returning new blog posts in Google Blog Search. Jeremy explained that earlier on, there was an issue...

Google Blog Search Fixes Link Issue But Asks For Additional Help

In early November, I reported an issue with Google Blog Search scanning blogrolls, which was then confirmed later on. The confirmation told us that Google would fix the issue, where Google Blog Search would continue to index and use more...

Google Blog Search To Fix Blogroll Issue

About a month ago, we reported Google Blog Search Link Command Now Scanning Blogroll Links. In short, using a link:www.seroundtable.com would not only return links from the content of the article, but also return links from the navigational elements. So...

Google Blog Search Link Command Now Scanning Blogroll Links

Every week day, I put together, what I call the Daily Link Find on my personal blog. It basically is a summary of links to my blog posts I find for the day. I find most, if not all, the...

Google Blog Search Relaunches With News Front Page

Everyone is talking about the announcement that Google Blog Search looks more like Google News, the home page and works a bit more like Techmeme. Danny has a quick post on it, ReadWriteWeb calls it a Techmeme Killer, but Matt...

Google Back Link Update? Google Blog Search Link Command Slow?

A DigitalPoint Forums thread reports that Google has also done a backlink update recently. Now, I think most people in this forum thread are talking about the link:www.domain.com command when searched at Google.com. That backlink command is known to just...

Google Testing Blog Search Results In Google.com

Barry Welford spotted Google showing Google Blog Search results at the bottom of Google web search results. He posted a screen capture at Cre8asite Forums showing this in action. Here is that screen capture downsized a bit. I have ton...

Google Blog Search Ranking Patent Application

Bill Slawski started a Cre8asite Forums thread on the topic of a new patent application he spotted named Ranking blog documents. Bill expained this document in great detail at his blog post named Positive and Negative Quality Ranking Factors from...

Old Google News Alerts Subscribers Getting Unwanted New Blog Search Alerts

I reported this morning at SEW Blog that Google Enhanced Google Alerts & Adds Blog Search Alerts. Yea, so you can now subscribe via email alerts to blog search for specific keywords. They have also updated Google Alerts to "show...

Google Blog Search Pinging Service

Want to ping Google Blog Search manually to tell them you have updated your blog or feed? You can do so at http://blogsearch.google.com/ping. Want to automated it? Build it in to your code using the Pinging Service API. Have more...

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