Apparently, for reasons as yet unknown, some Blogger users are finding that they are no longer indexed by Google.
Due to the generic nature of the code behind Blogger’s set templates, it appears that the ROBOTS NOINDEX,NOFOLLOW tag used if you’ve set your blog to private, is being inserted randomly into blogs that are most definitely not private, with the result that you will be excluded from Googles index.
The heads-up and solution to this problem came from the Marketing Pilgrim blog, and if you’re on Blogger, I strongly advise you to have a read, and then check your template, to correct it if necessary.
Of course, another solution would be to use a decent blogging platform instead….
6 users commented in " Use Blogger? Make Sure You’re Still In Google. "
Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackI always thought that going for a free blog platform equals to shooting yourself in the foot…
But this seems more like a head shot…
I’m so glad I found WordPress first.
I’ve got a Blogger blog I mess about with for the purposes of researching things for Blog-Op, and it’s awful!
Hey now!
2Dolphins has been Blogger-based for a little over 3 years. I’m pretty happy with the results. Sure, it’s a little quirky sometimes, but using Blogger is certainly better than the hand-coding method we began with…
Hi Rob
Blogger has it’s plus point, but once you try WordPress, you wouldn’t go back.
Are you blogger self-hosted I take it, from your use of a sitemap generator. How does it compare to Blogspot?
My site has always been self-hosted, so I can’t draw a comparison to Blogspot.
I’m not sure I’m really ready to do so, but how tough is it to convert an existing blog from the Blogger platform to WordPress? Sounds very dicey…
Hey Rob,
It’s actually quite easy, and totally no-risk - the good thing is you have your own domain name, which means you take your PR and links with you!
As I understand it, setup a new wordpress blog on a sub-domain. There are several plugins available that will import all of your posts & comments across into the new blog. Your original blog should still be working fine, and you will effectively have a mirror copy on Wordpress. Last step is to then just point the nameservers of your domain away from blogspot and onto your wordpress blog.
Should be seamless, and your old blog will still be there on it’s .blogspot address if you needed to switch back.
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