If you're a new Blogger wondering why your blog can't be Googled yet, you may just be impatient. Your posts are not indexed immediately. The Google indexer goes through the whole Internet, then starts again, and it's not done in a short period. It may take as long as a month to find and index you, but once it starts, you'll probably be satisfied.
USE META TAGS if interested in hurrying the process more:
Look in your template and locate the head.
within the head you should insert the two meta tags below. The indexers will read these meta tags.
<head>
<meta name="description" content="Most frequent Blogger questions answered. advice and tips. Help Group. "></meta>
<meta name="keywords" content="help answer questions Blogger help group
advice tips solutions tips"></meta>
</head>
Change all the terms in the meta tags above to ones present in YOUR blog.
Above all, get your link out there. Share it with friends. Email your url to them. When you are in your site, highlight the url in the Address box up above, right-click and copy it. Paste it into emails. Then your friends can save it to a Bookmarks or Favorites list. Also, post comments in other and similar blogs. Be friendly, chat. Pay attention to people writing good stuff, but who don't have 20 or 30 comments per day yet. You'll be more likely to swap links with people who are not yet overwhelmed and who feel friendly toward you. You yourself must write plenty of good posts!
See also:
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EMERGENCY STEPS
| Kick-starting The Blog |
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| 1. Refresh (F5) or Ctrl-F5
2. Clear cache (delete temporary Internet files) and cookies in Tools-Internet Options. 3. Add a question mark to the end of your blog's internet address in the address box and see if it will show the latest update. (Can also be done with other people's url's in the address window.) 4. Republish (if in classic Blogger) 5. Reboot 6. Log out and log back in again (may change to an untroubled server) 7. Change browser (IE, Firefox, others) ---Not necessary to do all of these at once!--- |
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USEFUL BLOGGER HELP FILE
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You are missing an A on your meta end tag on the first section.
ReplyDeleteI used the code, thank you!
Quite right! I fixed it.
ReplyDeleteThank you, too!
I don't understand fully what a "meta tag" is. I see the word "meta" with the less than and greater than symbols but am unclear about how these effect the blog. I want to max my blogs Search Engine Op. Could you explain what meta tags are, also how and where to insert in my blog. I'm obviously a novice who's using the new templates, but I'm a quick learner. I have only a beginners understanding of HTML. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteThanks - We used the tag and hopefully our hits will now jump to ten million per day!
ReplyDeleteOh - I guess we better write some decent copy :-)