Blogger Beta Not Showing Up In Google Blog Search
Posted in Search Marketing by jspirko on September 5th, 2006 
Yes it is true and I have verified it! I have already achieved some top ten rankings for the African House Snake Blog that I set up as a fun play blog during my Initial Review of Blogger Beta but it still does not show up in Googles Blog Search.
This is no major blow because it shows that you can easily rank a new Beta Blog in the normal results of Googles SERPs but it does beg the question of WHY?
Why indeed would Google roll out a new Blogger platform that we are quite impressed with and NOT include it in there Blog Search right from the get go? We are not sure but in spite of this limitation it is still an extreme improvement over the original Blogger.
It also appears to take about 3 days for new posts to be picked up by Technorati even with a manual ping as opposed to the almost instant inclusion of new posts to our Comtech New Blog and other blogs that are built on a Word Press Platform.
Clearly Google still has work to do but if you are new to blogging, Blogger beta is a good place to get your feet wet. In fact we have a few new sites planned and the blog associated with them may in fact be built on the new Blogger Beta Platform. Perhaps Google should add this issue to their list of Known Issues for Blogger in Beta.
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Jebb said,
October 9, 2006 @ 7:06 pm
Is it possible that it takes a couple of days to show up in Google Blog Search? I just converted my blog to beta and it isn’t showing up in Google Blog Search, a major source of my traffic, but a beta test blog that I created back in August *is* showing up. I’m hoping it’s just a matter of taking a couple of days; otherwise I stand to lose much of my traffic.
jspirko said,
October 10, 2006 @ 11:49 am
Actually I think this problem has been corrected as all our blogger beta blogs are now starting to show up in the Google Blog search. I think there was a problem with the feeds from blogger beta and it looks like that is now corrected.
A few things I can advise you on to help with this.
One you can now directly manualy ping google blog search so just do that when you make new posts by going here http://blogsearch.google.com/ping
Two cruise over to Technorati and claim your blog to make sure you are in Technorati and you can manualy ping them too. If your are in Technorati you end up in many other places.
Three, getting a FeedBurner feed set up and linking to it NEVER hurts.
Hope that helps,
Jack