Comments on: How Did Google Find My Blog?

By: Quick Weight Loss Tips

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By: caravan

caravan — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 12:19:02 +0000

Good post.

All I have to do now if figure out how the search engines find my sites when I want them to. If I can consistently do that then I’ll be a happy man

By: oldschool

oldschool — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 03:04:37 +0000

@Marco – I have not used it, but Brian Clark at Copyblogger (a respected and trusted blog) did a review on it:
http://www.copyblogger.com/why-creativity-can-kill-your-copy/

Thanks for stopping by.

By: marco

marco — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 02:59:01 +0000

I’m also considering using a specialized copywriting softwared called Glyphius. Has anyone had any experience with this? It is supposed to use statistical analysis to optimize the wording of your advertising copy. I’d be interested in hearing any feedback, good or bad. Thanks

By: oldschool

oldschool — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 22:08:29 +0000

@ Elizabeth – That is another good thing to point out as many people install blogs in a directory (i.e. /blog) rather than the root level. For those, the info provided in the blog post will be helpful. It is always good to know what the end result is so you can improvise (i.e. hack the code) when needed.

By: Elizabeth Able

Elizabeth Able — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 22:00:08 +0000

Thanks!

Privacy settings are my first question to those who want to know why their blog isn’t getting indexed. Sometimes they get set and forgotten.

The codex says this only works if WP is installed @root, and I haven’t investigated the specifics completely, though I do know that the metas still get written. There will always still be a use for hands-on knowledge, at least to make sure behavior is as hoped.

By: oldschool

oldschool — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 21:26:13 +0000

Now Elizabeth, that just makes things too easy

Thanks for that insight. It certainly is a much more smooth approach than my “Old School” methodology. I guess the hacker in me always wants to muck with code when there is a simple solution.

I didn’t realize all that the privacy feature did behind the scenes.

So there you have it folks, just make sure you do that before your first post.

Kudos!

By: Elizabeth Able

Elizabeth Able — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 21:03:58 +0000

You can also go to Settings > Privacy > and choose “I would like to block search engines, but allow normal visitors.” This results in meta name=”robots” content=”noindex,nofollow”, instructing search engines not to index or follow links to what it finds on the page. It can take a little time for previously cache’d pages to drop out of the index, and you may need an inlink for Search Engine spiders to follow to nudge indexing if you go back to allowing spiders to do their work.

This will also turn off pings, and if you don’t already have a robots.txt file, will also create a robots.txt that disallows user-agents.

Just remember that only “good” spiders obey.