best practice for blog indexing?

my blog posts aren't indexed, but my html pages are

[dlwilson42]

I've got a personal website that's been around since 1998. It's got hundreds of HTML pages that I've written by hand. Many of the pages show up on search engines if I search for a phrase or sentence in them.

In August of last year I started using Blosxom to post blog entries on my home page, usually one or two each day. There are 20 entries per page, and old entries get pushed off the page as I post new entries. I've been noticing that when I search for content from the blog entries I don't get hits. Interestingly, though, the comment pages that are associated with some of the entries are getting hits.

So I added a permalink to each blog entry. This way, even though the entry moves from page to page, there is a permanent page containing just that entry, that ends in .html

Is this the right strategy? Will the search engines follow the permalinks and index them? So far I get no hits on the content on the permalink pages. How should I deal the the problem of the blog pages constantly changing?

thanks,
Dave

[ferdinand]

I think that you need to look carefully at how your blog templates are set up - e.g., can you tune your templates for comments, archives, category pages etc.

Have you thought about using Google sitemap to supply an up to date feed of pages emphasizing the blog content pages.

Julian

[dlwilson42]

I was just talking with some friends last night about Google site maps.

I thought they were like a regular site map that shows what pages are on the site. Now that I know better I will submit a site map.

I also talked with my web host about adding some domains. I will break up the blog into different sections by content type, each under a descriptive domain. I will keep the original blog with all of the contents, and each of the new domains will show just the pages that are relevant to that domain. Hopefully this will make the AdSense ads more relevant to the page content.

Will Google penalize me for having the same content in the "master blog" as in the sub-blogs?

thanks,
Dave