Google Blog Search and TIMMGuru
Google Blog SearchBETA is definitely new to me. I just came across http://blogsearch.google.com and discovered that my previous post “Google Webmasters Central for SEO Technicians” was ranked top for the keyword singapore seo.
Getting ranked number in the Google Blog Search is a pleasant surprise since this blog has not been doing well with Google search ranking - in fact it has not been indexed yet; so are many other pages in this blog.
Google Blog Search is not the same as Blogger Search, even though they are powered by the same search engine technology. Blogger Search displays results of Blogger(Blogspot) blogs only whereas Google Blog Search includes results from Wordpress.com and etc.
So how did Google Blog Search find this blog?
It is likely that Blog Search uses the same Googlebot as the main Google search engine.
So how does Google decide if the web page is a blog post or otherwise?
I really do not have the answer to this question. If it is purely based on the meta tag information e.g. <link rel=“alternate” type=“application/atom+xml” /> then it may not be accurate, because many non-blog website can also include RSS feeds. Also, I don’t think there is a blog search submission service by Google; unlike Technorati which rely on owners of blogs to submit to its directory manually or by pinging.
Whatever! I am just happy that all is not lost even Google main search is not ranking this blog highly, it’s comforting to know that it still manage to do well in Google Blog Search.