I am currently using a Wordpress installation for my blog about an upcoming video game called Warhammer Online. I have Warhammer Online set up in my “All in one SEO” plugin so that it is present in the title of every page on my blog and 90% of my posts are tagged with the term as well.

I used to appear in Google BlogSearch but all of a sudden it stopped showing me. I’m not showing up in Google Alerts for that term anymore either. There isn’t very much competition for this term in Google and my site has arguably better SEO than most (though maybe my current situation disproves that…).

I haven’t been able to figure out why Google has given me such hate in BlogSearch. I am the top ranked site if you search “Warhammer Online blog” in regular search and I rank top or highly for several other related terms as well.

What am I doing wrong?

1 – What ping services do you recommend using through your own blog is you’re using the feedburner pingshot? Would you recommend getting rid of pingomatic and the rest of them?

2 – I’m interested in getting a forum into the BlogSearch results. I see other forums there and can’t quite find any answers on how to do it. We’ve also got a feed for the forum on feedburner, and as of today, added Google Blogsearch to the pingshot options. Have any other thoughts or suggestions on this one?

Thanks for reading, and I look forward to the answers!

Eventually Google will work it out.

Also maybe there is still something in your config of Wordpress that is set to the old folder.

The big question is why have it on the subdomain, unless the blog is totally unrelated to your main website. You lose out on lots of SEO benefits because the links and traffics are related to a different domain.

Say you had a blog setup as a folder example
http://www.nepalvista.com/blog

and you submitted to google blog search. It started indexing
later you realize that you actually wanted a subdomain
so you created a subdomain http://blog.nepalvista.com/

Now google shows both in their blog search although the old URL brings up a page with meta nofollow,noindex. Does google not see that tag ?

Is there a way to tell google not to index http://www.nepalvista.com/blog
but index the subdomain, perhaps using robots.txt Even so, how to do this ? because the subdomain is actually pointing to the folder. If I add Disallow : http://www.nepalvista.com/blog
would be same as Disallow : http://blog.nepalvista.com/ ?

I would greatly appreciate if you anyone can help me with this. I think google should allow not just blog pinging but also removing a blog from its index. Is that available, where? I am in vain.

Thank you everyone, blogging seems to be fun, not it does come with lots of pain!

I did overlooked the “rules” part. Thanks for pointing out!

If you read my post carefully, you might notice that I mentioned that existing customers can also qualify, and Ponn in her post gave very specific instructions on how to do that.

You have been looking to test the higher priced press releases, so give it a try… on the house

On the Google Blog Search subject. It lookes like my blog is indexed there. If I look it up by the domain all my posts (including “What To Do With Unwanted Traffic”) are there.