Comments on: Are Blogger | Blogspot Blogs SEO Friendly?

By: AndyBeard

AndyBeard — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 07:39:05 +0000

I wouldn't invest any time in it because Blogspot I would guess is a Google trademark

By: voguehitchanelbags

voguehitchanelbags — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:49:14 +0000

I used to have a blogspot about designer handbags,and it ranks well when I use the keyword”Chanel handbags 2009″. However,I can't visit it recently,the link to this page is broken. I have to creat a new blog with wordpress.

By: Dan Brown

Dan Brown — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 12:10:10 +0000

Well well, blogspot is good and bad depending on how we want to exploit it.
Wordpress sucks. Anyone can complain about your blog and they take it off without any notice so better stay away from wordpress.

Coming back to blogpsot it has got good sides as well
- free
- very tolerant
- quick indexing
- quick to setup and you get live in no time

I feel you you exploit it carefully then it might be helpful for you in SEO

By: Mitchell1969

Mitchell1969 — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 14:26:37 +0000

I was able to get my Blogspot Blog to number 1 in the Google search results for keywords I wanted!!! Well, only for two weeks…..after that my site disappeared off the face of the Google map. It was fun while it lasted….who knows, maybe it will come back.

By: alex27

alex27 — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 04:04:20 +0000

The upshot of this seems to be use your own web hosting. I started something in blogspot but someone strongly dissuaded me from going ahead with it. Some of them are emerging now.

By: Jake's SEO Blogger

Jake's SEO Blogger — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 04:41:29 +0000

I am relatively new to blogging so I beagn teaching myself with blogger. Lately I have had quite the headache trying to tweak the blogger templates to be more SEO friendly. There are sites everywhere telling you to copy and paste some code into the edit html screen and your blog will be optimized like that. Most of them don't work and your template won't allow you to save, so you have to figure the stuff out yourself . Such a pain…I guess if I knew than what I know now, I would have gone the wordpress route.

By: AndyBeard

AndyBeard — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 03:32:45 +0000

Hi Kevin

There is actually a counter to this that I haven't yet written about, and pure speculation

The official line based on what Google has said is that even nofollow used on the tag links would now "evaporate" PageRank.

By: timL

timL — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:00:49 +0000

It amazes me that blogger isn't SEO friendly... especially since it's designed by Google. I would think that it would give bloggers a little bit more control over the content they product and how it appears online. Blogger should definitely address these issues before individuals switch to new blogs that allow them additional freedom and more easily indexed and optimized websites in terms of SEO/SEM.

Great post.

Tim
Boston SEO

By: KevinHeisler

KevinHeisler — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 09:44:28 +0000

Andy – great post. A friend of mine was advised by a well-meaning “internet guru” in the South of France to switch his blogging platform to Blogspot. He was told “optimizers always advise to go with blogger for blogs because, yes, it's free and easy to use, but more importantly it gets immediately posted onto google because google owns blogger.”

The guru went on to explain the key benefit of Blogger: it allows more “descriptors” — old-school for “index terms.” What are these mysterious descriptors?

Keywords.

Thanks for helping keep the world safe from self-styled internet gurus.

By: Mitchell

Mitchell — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:02:35 +0000

Andy:

Thanks for your help! I will just shut it down on wordpress.

I'll read up on other options...maybe wordpress direct will be better.

Thanks so much for your advice.

Mitchell