What do I need to set on Blogger to make sure that my blog gets indexed by Google? At the moment, not being indexed according to Webmaster.
User-agent: Mediapartners-Google
Disallow:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /search
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(This article is one of SEMMY Award 2009 nominees.)
http://www.localseoguide.com/how-to-get-your-site-indexed-in-google-other-search-engines-quickly-i-hope/
How to get your site indexed in Google & other search engines, quickly.
It lists out many ways.
Excerpt:
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1. Navigate to the page with a Google toolbar enabled browser.
2. Email the site to a friend using gmail.
3. Mention the url using the http protocol and www on message boards w/o a link (http://www.blah.com/). Try not to be spammy.
4. Perform site: and link: requests to each of the engines but especially msft and yahoo.
5. Navigate to the site on any of the cheap internet connections including comcast, aol, time warner, + brighthouse, netzero, etc… as those logs are used to find new sites.
6. Make toolbar requests to compete.com , alexa.com & quantcast.com.
7. Fetch site profile data from API’s (site:, link:, inurl:) google,, yahoo and alexa.
8. Navigate to the site profile page on aboutus.org (and/or create a profile page there)
9. Create a wikipedia entry for the site.
10. Do a site profile search in each of the various Yahoo and Google search services (local, images, news, video, youtube, blogs).
11. Search technorati, icerocket, blogpulse for the site.
12. Submit (aka buy links to) your top pages on well-indexed directories such as Yahoo Directory and Best of the Web.
13. Get links from bloggers who typically write about competitive sites:
14. Issue press releases via major press release distribution services (PRNewswire, PRWeb, etc.)
15. Submit links to top 50 pages from as many social bookmarking sites as possible:
a. http://www.ebizmba.com/articles/social-bookmarking
b. http://www.blogmarketingtactics.com/social-bookmarking/social-bookmarking-top-links.html
c. http://www.searchenginejournal.com/125-social-bookmarking-sites-importance-of-user-generated-tags-votes-and-links/6066/
16. Buy some Google Ads to your pages (this forces Google to crawl these pages to assess your quality score)
17. Make the top 50 pages the priority on your xml sitemap. Maybe make these and the home page the only pages in your xml sitemap.
18. If your site has pages with generic data that is common to other sites (e.g. business contact info), then you should figure out ways to add unique text to each page such as a new review of the business.
19. Oh yeah and submit your domains to all of the search engines via their submit URL pages (urls of Google, Yahoo, MSN, Live.com, mentioned in original texts)
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I am going to try these out on my blogs too.
website mentioned in texts
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Are you pinging http://rpc.pingomatic.com/ ? They in turn send a ping to google.
Or you can ping Google directly. http://blogsearch.google.com/ping
Everyone should make it a practice to go through their ping list and make sure they are not over pinging. You only need to ping each service once per post, (less if you post often) and many services ping other services. So by posting to your blog, if you have the wrong services in your ping list, whether autopinging or doing it manually, then you can end up spamming the pinging services, which can hurt your blog and get it delisted.
Also realize if you have autopinging set up, then everytime you make a new post or edit a post you ping again. If you are testing things or doing a lot of editing... turn autopinging off. Some blog software has plugins available to better control the pinging process, so that even if your blog is very active it will not ping too often. Once you are delisted it is very hard to recover.
Google owns blogger as well... so new blogs do get indexed. Some just might take longer than others. You will still need to make sure you optimize both your blog, and your individual posts for SEO to show up in the SERPs.
And are you absolutely sure it is not indexed? To check, do a search for site:yourblogname.blogger.com. If it comes up, then you need to work on the SEO on your blog template or your posts to get it to rank for your keywords.
Personal SEO and blog experience.
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M$The disallow does not have / in front of it so that means that the google bots can crawl your site
The second part is the wild card for bots and does disallow indexing. It really is with regards to the labels tab on your blog. It stops the bots indexing the pages again via the labels link. It's an attempt to stop duplicate indexing
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M$User-agent: Mediapartners-Google
Disallow: /search
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1. Perhaps the best way is to try submitting the blog directly to Google. Try this,
http://www.google.com/addurl/?continue=/addurl
2. And like my dear friends have added here, you can ping it to get faster responses.
3, Then, making the blog Search Engine Optimized also helps a lot.
4. This article also helps a lot;
http://www.localseoguide.com/how-to-get-your-site-indexed-in-google-other-search-engines-quickly-i-hope/
5. Finally, another very effective way of getting it done is to post links to your blog in as many social networking sites, discussion threads, answering forums, internet business forums, your other blogs etc. as possible. It takes some time, but it helps a lot.
Hope that helps.
Experience
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Here is the direct link to submit your blog
http://www.google.com/addurl/?continue=/addurl
Here is a good informative site about google search engine
http://www.smartwebby.com/website_promotion/google.asp
I know this doesn't answer the exact question, because like I said, I am not a tech person.
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What is your blog talking about? Short content, spam content, duplicate content, sex, drug content tend to be not indexed by Google. Please make sure you read Google Quality Guideline: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35769#3
Also, if you want you blog to be indexed more frequently, you could use Google Blog Search Ping: http://blogsearch.google.com/ping
If you think you robot.txt is blocking search engine bot from indexing your blog, you could test your robot setting in Google Webmaster Tool since you're already using the service:
To test a site's robots.txt file:
1. On the Webmaster Tools Home page, click the site you want.
2. Under Site configuration, click Crawler access
3. If it's not already selected, click the Test robots.txt tab.
4. Copy the content of your robots.txt file, and paste it into the first box.
5. In the URLs box, list the site to test against.
6. In the User-agents list, select the user-agents you want.
Any changes you make in this tool will not be saved. To save any changes, you'll need to copy the contents and paste them into your robots.txt file.
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=156449
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How to Ping Your Blog
Hope this helps some, let us know if things change.
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