Comments on: Blogger deleting blogs from Googleâ€™s index

By: Jordan McCollum

Jordan McCollum — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 15:40:46 +0000

Oh, cool. I’m always signed in, but to take advantage of that, I just have to click the radio button next to ‘Other’ and fill in the info. Good to know!

By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 15:36:02 +0000

Jordan, anyone commenting can also leave a normal URL, as long as a blog owner allows comments from people who do not have a blogger ID

I also advise people who have a blogger ID to use the alternate method.

Once you have removed nofollow from blogger, you can join the no nofollow community on Bumpzee
http://www.bumpzee.com/no-nofollow/

By: Jordan McCollum

Jordan McCollum — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 15:28:10 +0000

@info: to remove the nofollow tags in the comments section on Blogger, go into Layout>Edit HTML. Check “Expand Widget Templates” and find the code . Delete the rel=’nofollow’ part.

However, Blogger only links to Blogger profiles, not actual blogs, so the link equity isn’t really helping.

By: pete

pete — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 11:57:45 +0000

I tried ‘custom domains’ – looks good!

Google alerts is a cinch – just login to Google accounts and there’s an ‘alerts’ tab

By: info4beingrich

info4beingrich — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 11:04:46 +0000

Nathania, as you said in your comment above to set google alert so that we may know when its indexing the blog. Could you please help, how can we set the google alert?

By: info4beingrich

info4beingrich — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 11:02:22 +0000

A quick question, do these nofollow tags effect the comments section on the blogger? How can these be removed please?

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This Week In SEO - 2/23/07 - TheVanBlog — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 02:09:26 +0000

[...] Blogger deleting blogs from Googleâ€™s index [...]

By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 09:29:31 +0000

All I am going to suggest is to give it a try and study all your logs etc for a while.
I could write a nice blog post “outing” the benefits, but then they might well be nerfed

By: Number 11

Number 11 — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 09:19:12 +0000

Andy, What is the bonus on the domains side?

Good news is always welcome

By: Nathania Johnson

Nathania Johnson — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 21:42:53 +0000

You can download SearchStatus to work with Firefox. It will highlight any nofollow tags in a firefox browser (once you have it on).

Or just go to your blog. Open the source code. utilize the “find” function to look for the nofollow tag. If it’s in the meta tags, then copy the meta tags minus the nofollow code and paste it in the Blogger template html code to replace the .

If you find it elsewhere in the code, then note where it is and just go back to your Template code, locate it and delete the tag.

By: Beginners Guide to SEO

Beginners Guide to SEO — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 19:29:16 +0000

How do I get to the element, in the new Blogger template I can’t find it, I reverted it to the old blogger template and saw it, but how do I know that element has the in it? Thanks.

By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 12:16:12 +0000

Actually on the domains side there can be a bonus

By: Number 11

Number 11 — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 12:05:05 +0000

Thanks for this. There’s also problems with Google messing up indexing of a Blogger blog when it is moved (e.g. blogspot.com to ftp, or to custom domains). Expect to lose a few weeks traffic

By: Sarah

Sarah — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 11:27:35 +0000

Thanks to this post I found out that this thing is affected by Blog too I hadn’t realised cause traffic wasn’t deterioating in a major way. Off to fix this immediately! What nonsense. Google should be more attentive to such things

By: Use Blogger? Make Sure You’re Still In Google. » Blog-Op

Use Blogger? Make Sure You’re Still In Google. » Blog-Op — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 11:25:19 +0000

[...] 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. [...]

By: Aaron Shear

Aaron Shear — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 08:18:52 +0000

One the main things I have learned this year is how much it costs to be crawled on such an agressive basis. It would seem to me that this should be a given for a Google based company. Especially since they most likely share data centers.

By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 06:21:27 +0000

I first spotted this a couple of weeks ago when I was looking at how the 2000 Bloggers thing was being treated.

I opted to try to conteact individual blog owners directly once I realised what was happening.

This isn’t happening on any specific type of blog, it is just people using Google default code. I have blogger blogs now running on the new blogger that were not affected, and also tried creating a new blog and didn’t have a problem. Maybe it is just a few rogue servers?

By: Drew Stauffer

Drew Stauffer — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 21:59:40 +0000

With all the blog software making it so easy for people to get online, its no wonder more things like this aren’t happening.

You never know what some developer could sneak in there.

By: Josh

Josh — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 21:22:06 +0000

Thank you!!!! This explains why I stopped ranking on my name in Google; I had used blogger to publish to my domain, and never thought they would have changed something like this.

By: Aaron Shear

Aaron Shear — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 20:07:39 +0000

Is it possible that they are doing this for the blogs that they host? To cut down crawler traffic.