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Re: Are Blogger | Blogspot Blogs SEO Friendly?

AndyBeard — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 20:39:05 -0000

I wouldn't invest any time in it because Blogspot I would guess is a Google trademark

Re: Are Blogger | Blogspot Blogs SEO Friendly?

FanZan — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 18:47:53 -0000

for me its not friendly , i use wordpress and it works like magic
also i wanna to ask you for a personal advice
i have this domain http://blogspot.im how could i use it to make money

Re: Are Blogger | Blogspot Blogs SEO Friendly?

joomlaexpert — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 03:46:21 -0000

I don't think that they are SEO friendly, especially in the eyes of Google.

Re: Are Blogger | Blogspot Blogs SEO Friendly?

Dan Brown — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 01:10:10 -0000

Well well, blogspot is good and bad depending on how we want to exploit it.
Wordpress sucks. Anyone can complain about your blog and they take it off without any notice so better stay away from wordpress.

Coming back to blogpsot it has got good sides as well
- free
- very tolerant
- quick indexing
- quick to setup and you get live in no time

I feel you you exploit it carefully then it might be helpful for you in SEO

Re: Are Blogger | Blogspot Blogs SEO Friendly?

Mitchell1969 — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 03:26:37 -0000

I was able to get my Blogspot Blog to number 1 in the Google search results for keywords I wanted!!! Well, only for two weeks.....after that my site disappeared off the face of the Google map. It was fun while it lasted....who knows, maybe it will come back.

Re: Are Blogger | Blogspot Blogs SEO Friendly?

alex27 — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 17:04:20 -0000

The upshot of this seems to be use your own web hosting. I started something in blogspot but someone strongly dissuaded me from going ahead with it. Some of them are emerging now.

Re: Are Blogger | Blogspot Blogs SEO Friendly?

Jake's SEO Blogger — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 17:41:29 -0000

I am relatively new to blogging so I beagn teaching myself with blogger. Lately I have had quite the headache trying to tweak the blogger templates to be more SEO friendly. There are sites everywhere telling you to copy and paste some code into the edit html screen and your blog will be optimized like that. Most of them don't work and your template won't allow you to save, so you have to figure the stuff out yourself . Such a pain...I guess if I knew than what I know now, I would have gone the wordpress route.

Re: Are Blogger | Blogspot Blogs SEO Friendly?

AndyBeard — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 16:32:45 -0000

Hi Kevin

There is actually a counter to this that I haven't yet written about, and pure speculation

The official line based on what Google has said is that even nofollow used on the tag links would now "evaporate" PageRank.

Re: Are Blogger | Blogspot Blogs SEO Friendly?

timL — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 13:00:49 -0000

It amazes me that blogger isn't SEO friendly... especially since it's designed by Google. I would think that it would give bloggers a little bit more control over the content they product and how it appears online. Blogger should definitely address these issues before individuals switch to new blogs that allow them additional freedom and more easily indexed and optimized websites in terms of SEO/SEM.

Great post.

Tim

Re: Are Blogger | Blogspot Blogs SEO Friendly?

KevinHeisler — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 22:44:28 -0000

Andy - great post. A friend of mine was advised by a well-meaning "internet guru" in the South of France to switch his blogging platform to Blogspot. He was told "optimizers always advise to go with blogger for blogs because, yes, it's free and easy to use, but more importantly it gets immediately posted onto google because google owns blogger."

The guru went on to explain the key benefit of Blogger: it allows more "descriptors" -- old-school for "index terms." What are these mysterious descriptors?

Keywords.

Thanks for helping keep the world safe from self-styled internet gurus.

Re: Are Blogger | Blogspot Blogs SEO Friendly?

Mitchell — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 05:02:35 -0000

Andy:

Thanks for your help! I will just shut it down on wordpress.

I'll read up on other options...maybe wordpress direct will be better.

Thanks so much for your advice.

Mitchell

Re: Are Blogger | Blogspot Blogs SEO Friendly?

AndyBeard — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 04:56:17 -0000

If Wordpress.com in their wisdom decide they don't like your blog, they will shut it down, and you won't have any control over redirects to another service.

Wordpress.com are anti-commercial - they don't like affiliate links etc.

Using a domain you registered elsewhere and paying a small fee to WP.com to allow you to use it means that in the event you wish to move, you can take your content elsewhere, along with the link to it.

Long-term you might be better off on your own hosting

It seems you are in the poker niche (risky competitive) and an affiliate (a massive wp.com no no)

I would give your blog on Wordpress.com a 50% chance per month of just disappearing, without any notification.

Those aren't good odds.

Re: Are Blogger | Blogspot Blogs SEO Friendly?

Mitchell — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 18:44:10 -0000

All I did was put in the name of I wanted, which would then be attached to wordpress.com. And then I clicked on import in the tools provided by Wordpress. I didn't register it with Namecheap or a third party.

There must be an SEO reason why you are suggesting this. So, should I start over? But, isn't all the blogs in Wordpress end with wordpress.com which means that registering the name wouldn't make a difference.

Right now my wordpress site is www.winapokertournament.wor....

Thanks for your advice. I'm not getting any Google love on my blogger blog--very frustrating.

Re: Are Blogger | Blogspot Blogs SEO Friendly?

AndyBeard — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 17:56:42 -0000

I hope you didn't go to WordPress.com without using your own domain name, registered through a 3rd party service such as Namecheap.

Re: Are Blogger | Blogspot Blogs SEO Friendly?

Mitchell — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 09:20:49 -0000

I wish I knew this before I signed up with Blogger. Now I have over 200 posts on my blogger blog...and I just imported everything to Wordpress.

I'm not sure if it will make a difference in SEO, but I guess I'll find out soon.

Good info...although, a lot of the tech stuff I don't get. Thanks,

Re: Are Blogger | Blogspot Blogs SEO Friendly?

AndyBeard — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:12:52 -0000

It was deleted (though I have restored it)

As to the question, asking questions which don't provide enough specific answers to individual circumstances isn't very useful,

90%+ of comments left by humans get deleted on this blog as it attracts both the best and worst comments on the internet (at least about the topics I talk about)

Re: Are Blogger | Blogspot Blogs SEO Friendly?

jitterbug978 — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:30:50 -0000

Well that definately makes me think twice about being registered to blogger blogspot. Youd think with google owning it theyd do all they could to optimize their blogging platform to their search engine. It would attract alot more attention to blogger vs wordpress.

Re: Are Blogger | Blogspot Blogs SEO Friendly?

Rohit — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 01:32:36 -0000

where is my comment?

Re: Are Blogger | Blogspot Blogs SEO Friendly?

Rohit — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 07:46:29 -0000

wow amazing post what would you suggest for blogging wordpress or blogger? on any other bloggig platform?

Re: Are Blogger | Blogspot Blogs SEO Friendly?

AndyBeard — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 06:01:11 -0000

Lots of sites get "huge traffic" and their SEO sucks

It is not a matter of how many green pixels, but how you use real PageRank that matters.

Re: Are Blogger | Blogspot Blogs SEO Friendly?

Aditya SEO — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:20:24 -0000

But then how some of the blogspot blogs are really successful?

some of them get huge traffic with high PR.

Re: Are Blogger | Blogspot Blogs SEO Friendly?

Falcon — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 01:42:35 -0000

Hi Andy, first time reading your site, like it so far. Blogger definitely isn't SEO friendly, but I see it more as an entry level platform to get into blogging and website design / management.

I think Google hasn't really made it SEO friendly because I don't think the user base demands it as much, they typically are not as experienced or web savvy as users who use Drupal or WordPress for example, I don't mean that in a bad way, just a different segment of users.

While Blogger isn't very SEO friendly, I think even other mainstream systems such as WordPress and Drupal still have a long way to go in terms of SEO as well.

While definitely offering more in terms of SEO than Blogger, they both have some serious gaps out of the box. These gaps are currently plugged using extensions/plugins, or manual coding.

I would like to see SEO as a higher priority on these systems, it would almost make sense to have someone very experienced and representative of the search engine market as a key product manager.

To recap, Blogger is a good starting point for people with very basic knowledge about running a website. Drupal is the most functional, but WordPress is easier to use I find and does just as much in most cases.

Regardless, if SEO is important to you don't use Blogger, and research how to enhance the SEO capabilities of Drupal and WordPress on the web.

Regards
OZ

Re: Are Blogger | Blogspot Blogs SEO Friendly?

SEOJebus — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 11:38:41 -0000

It's kinda hard to believe Google would run a blog system that is so SEO unfriendly, but I do know first hand maintaining a Blogspot blog in the rankings is much harder to do than say, a wordpress blog.

Re: Are Blogger | Blogspot Blogs SEO Friendly?

AndyBeard — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 05:34:54 -0000

Certainly seems that way, though Google in theory can crawl forms, it depends on implementation.

Re: Are Blogger | Blogspot Blogs SEO Friendly?

Nishadha Silva — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 04:32:39 -0000

You are saying that drop down menu doesn't pass any link juice and the archive structure shown in the image passes link juice right ? Any other tips to optimize blogspot blogs for search engines ?