Does Google Spider Blogs

[lcampers]

Does Google spider blogs at all? I've noticed that there are many many blogs with tons of content but not that many show up in search.

I have a blog, without adsense, but I can't find it when I look for it in Google Search.

Thanks...

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[Iguana]

Yes, but I've found that the 'Sandbox Effect' applies - you may have to wait 12+ months for your blog pages to actually rank. The other thing is to look at your template: does each post have its own url? Change the template so that the main page and archive pages have permalinks to each individual post

[selomelo]

Yes, Google visits my blog almast daily, especially when I post new messages. And the blog pages rank very well in Google even for relatively competitive keywords.

[brizad]

As with all sites google indexes they are selective. I've had then index some of my blogs and sites which are linked to from blogs in about a week though which is pretty cool.

[manca]

Yes, google does spider blogs, infact it loves them. I had one blog ranked very well on google, but suddenly it disspeared, and I don't know why...Probably cuz of google dance.
The bottom line is that the big G definitely loves blogs.

[abates]

Blogs additionally end up in the Google Blogsearch index as well as the main web index.

[Monika Pardasaney]

the google blog website is googleblog.blogspot.com

[lcampers]

thanks for the replies

i guess i have to wait at least a year to see some traffic though

[Knappster]

It can't hurt to submit your RSS or Atom feed [google.com] as a sitemap.

[JeffOstroff]

is it better to host your own blog on your own web server, or let one of the blog sites host it? We already have a web site and would rather benefit from improved rankings by having a blog there, but not sure if it will help.

On the other hand, hosting my blog on myblog.blogger.com for example, would benefit blogger than it would me.

Any thoughts?

[Tearabite]

since Google owns Blogger, i cant help but think it gets crawled pretty good..

[Halfdeck]

Some default blogspot templates are NOT Google friendly.

[Knappster]

Some default blogspot templates are NOT Google friendly.

True. I think all of the default templates give you exactly the same meta description for every page. One way around this is to incorporate the <$BlogPageTitle$> tag into the descriptions on your post pages so each will be unique.