Google indexing Blogger

how well and how fast

[Hugene]

Considering that Blooger is part of Google, can I assume that blogs are indexed pretty fast and pretty regularly?

Can I start a blog and use it to drive some traffic or increase my SER for my main publisher site?

If this works, it could be a pretty inetersting area of testing.

let me know what u think

thanks

[JohnieWalker]

Appearing on (Deja) GoogleGroups dosen't matter, and same applies to posting on bulletin boards.

IMHO it's worth testing if you don't have anything else to do..

I don't think it would help.

[Small Website Guy]

I'm pretty sure I remember reading somwhere at Blogger that Google doesn't favor Blogger in its search engine algorithm.

If you see a blog with high PR and lots of traffic, it's because it has a lot of inbound links, mostly from other blogs. It's not because it's a Blogger blog, or even because it's a blog at all.

[graywolf]

did they change the comments recently? It looks like they are redirecting URL's instead of going straight out.

[Small Website Guy]

Links created in Blogger comments automatically become redirected links that don't pass PageRank. This is explained somewhere on the Blogger site.

[dirkz]

> Considering that Blooger is part of Google, can I assume that blogs are indexed pretty fast and pretty regularly?

Nope. You need the same prerequisites just like with any other site.

[Small Website Guy]

It might also be noted that although Google doesn't FAVOR blogs, neither does it DISFAVOR them. A blog is no more nor no less important than any other website. But because blogs tend to link a lot, and from the homepage and every other page, they have a disproportionate impact on the search engine rankings which are based heavily on links.

(I should add that this is all an educated guess, I have no inside knowledge.)

[Hugene]

That's what I was thinking.

of one, a good blog will get a lot of inbound links.

of two, I can then use the blog to link heavilly towards another page.

Can that help in the SER of the other page

[bears5122]

Blogs get indexed very fast. New posts on mine get indexed within 2-3 days. I get a lot of traffic to the blog for some odd search terms. I suggest starting one, getting in all the blog directories, and watch the traffic you get.

[dirkz]

As I said before, a blog is the same as any other site.

> of one, a good blog will get a lot of inbound links.

Holds true for any type of site.

> of two, I can then use the blog to link heavilly towards another page.

Just like with any other site.

> Blogs get indexed very fast.

How fast a site is indexed doesn't depend on its type. It's inbound links, PR etc. But definitely not whether it's a blog.

If blogs seem to be favored this is due to various reasons:

They link to their 'competitors'.
They get links from their 'competitors'.

Plus some other reasons, but not because they're a blog.

[Hugene]

Links created in Blogger comments automatically become redirected links that don't pass PageRank

what exactly do you mean by redirected links?

I write the anchor tags myself in my blog entries, and they appear unaltered in the html of the blog.

[dirkz]

> what exactly do you mean by redirected links?

Links dropped in comments.