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Friday, January 29, 2010

Publishing Issues

Thanks to everyone for your supportive comments about sourcing.  I now have some good ideas that I am planning to try out.  And, since you were so helpful last time, I have a new question for you.

Recently I discovered that this blog is not coming up on a Google search.  When I created the blog, I set it to be available through search engines and blogger lists.  However, I have tried various keyword searches on Google, and nothing is coming up.  Conversely, my private blog is set to not be searchable through search engines and blogger lists, but it came right up when I searched the blog title on Google.  That's a little scary.  I spent a long time trying to figure out how to make this blog come up on Google, but to no avail.

Has anyone else had a similar problem?  Were you able to fix it?

I know I could make my personal blog private, but I like having it open so that friends browsing my facebook site can see my personal blog without having to be invited.  So, if any of you have any thoughts, I would be interested to hear them.

By the way, I apologize that my most recent posts have been technical, rather than informative.  I'm still trying to work out the bugs on this new blog and I find reader comments to be very useful.  Nevertheless, I will be posting an informational post about the Ristes again.  Stay tuned!

1 comment:

  1. Go here to learn about getting your blog on the search results: www.google.com/support/forum/p/blogger and type in "my posts are not coming up in google blog search" and click the first link. Keep in mind that it can take up to a month for Google to "find" your blog. As for your personal blog... Once someone finds your public blog they can click over to your personal one. I would suggest making your personal blog private, but it might work to just creat your public blog using a different email addy so they aren't linked. Let us know what you end up doing!

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