Hello all,

I'm hoping this might be a simple one to solve. I set up a blog using Blogger in order to help drive traffic towards a site that my company hosts. The strange thing is, Google hasn't even indexed the page yet, despite it being set up in December last year. I checked the html via the Blogger control panel, and there are no meta "nofollow" or "noindex" commands that I can see...so something isn't right.

I did, however "view page source" to look at the html, and I discovered a lengthy, garbled javascript file at the very end of the code. In amongst this I did discover reference to 'noindex' and 'nofollow' but I'm unsure if and how it's being implemented, because I don't really know javascript. I also can't access this file through the blogger html editor.

Can anyone shed some light on this for me?

Cheers,

Rich

Are you sure that there are no "nofollow" or "noindex" anywhere? Blogger, in the past, defaulted to use those tags.

You want to look at the code via "view source" and not the editor. Check out the "nofollow" issue there in the source.

Is any site linking to your page?

As I mentioned, when I click on 'View Source' I see a whole bunch of garbled javascript code at the very foot of the document - in amongst which I can see 'nofollow' and 'noindex' but in a context I'm unfamiliar with - and they're not in the header. I can't edit this code via Blogger because it doesn't show up in edit mode.

As I mentioned, when I click on 'View Source' I see a whole bunch of garbled javascript code at the very foot of the document - in amongst which I can see 'nofollow' and 'noindex' but in a context I'm unfamiliar with - and they're not in the header. I can't edit this code via Blogger because it doesn't show up in edit mode.
Have you built any links to your blogger URL?

Hi Beu,

Umm...that I haven't done. Although I did submit the url to Google for inclusion when I set it up...

lol sorry, at least I got a laugh today

Can someone explain? Without being patronising. I'm not an SEO expert and came here for advice, not to be laughed at.

Your right. For that, I do appologise.

Tell you what, drop me a PM and I will help you out.

Feeling bad now for laughing :(

taglab you may have to post a couple more times to be able to send a message
put the blog's url in the thread and we will leave it up long enough to work on it and then take it down

Hi AussieWebmaster,

The URL is:

interim-management-insights (dot) blogspot (dot) com

Any thoughts as to why Google hasn't indexed it would be much appreciated.

beu said it up above. Generally, Google doesn't index a page unless it has links to it. As a start you can probably find some blog directories to submit it to, though with somewhat sparse and old posts the better ones will probably not list it. Spend some regularly updating it and you should be in good shape.

Hi Jimbeetle,

Interesting...I didn't realise Google relied on inbound links to a page in order to find it...Thanks for that...I will endeavour to create some.

Just on that note, you really only need one link from a site that is already indexed to get indexed

There are no issues with the javascript on your page. This appears to be generic to blogger so your issue is that you need external links.

for example:

paleo-future.blogspot.com

contains the same javascript block of code that is on your site and this site is indexed by google

yes I would submit to the blog directories and start making regular posts to the blog and given the niched nature of your topic you should get some decent serp positions

Yep, blogs, directories and/or others search engines need a door to your site.:)