Does anyone know the criteria for a WordPress site to get listed on the Google Blog search results?
My accountant site is currently blocking feeds in its robots.txt as per SEO recommendations to reduce duplicate content - I wonder if that is the reason it's not listed in the google blog search when it's doing great in the main Google search results - including page 1 position 3 when you search on 'accountancy blog'.
Anyone know how to get listed on Google Blogs?
PS: I am pinging the following list for each new blog, so it's not like I am hiding!
[Ping list moderated]
as per SEO recommendations to reduce duplicate content
Uh?! Who on earth told you that? Stop blocking access to the feeds.
Thanks esmi for the very fast response!
I have composed my robots.txt from many sources on the web (most of which say to block feeds) such as:
Disallow: /feed/
Disallow: /feed/$
Disallow: /*/feed/$
Disallow: /*/feed/rss/$
Disallow: /*/trackback/$
Disallow: /*/*/feed/$
Disallow: /*/*/feed/rss/$
Disallow: /*/*/trackback/$
Disallow: /*/*/*/feed/$
Disallow: /*/*/*/feed/rss/$
Disallow: /*/*/*/trackback/$
Disallow: /comments/feed/
So you think that I should unblock all the feeds?
Ok this info here from Joost helps clarify things: http://yoast.com/example-robots-txt-wordpress/
So do you think unblocking feeds will get the site listed on Google Blogs?
