Google Blogsearch Rewards Popular News Reporting
This article is simply about attracting new traffic to a blog.
Woman buys abandoned Saginaw MI Home on eBay for $1.75
Google Blogsearch has relaunched to highlight popular stories covered by blogs across 11 categories:
In the Business section, the abovementioned $1.75 house was the top real estate story followed by 9 blogs:
So, now if you need a story idea that will attract traffic, head over to Google Blogsearch and find one. It's now similar to Digg or Techmeme, two types of news aggregators.
Woman buys abandoned Saginaw MI Home on eBay for $1.75
Google Blogsearch has relaunched to highlight popular stories covered by blogs across 11 categories:
In the Business section, the abovementioned $1.75 house was the top real estate story followed by 9 blogs:
So, now if you need a story idea that will attract traffic, head over to Google Blogsearch and find one. It's now similar to Digg or Techmeme, two types of news aggregators.
Pat - that's interesting - it actually showed up in one of my google alerts today and caught my eye. Now I need to check out the google business categories
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Cyndee, what showed up in your google alerts? I'm experimenting and counting the minutes until one of my two blog posts on Google Blogsearch reaches their engine.
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Pat, as always, something new and interesting. Heading over to google blogsearch to check it out. I wonder how they decide which posts are popular - traffic or submissions?
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Hi Irina, I think it's a Google algorithm specifically blogs that probably rewards links... this blog has never placed to high on Blogsearch but gets ~35% of traffic from google itself.
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It'll be interesting to track. I played around with google blogsearch and it was fun putting specific terms like real estate pasadena ca and finding myself at the top there. Pretty neat.
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I saw that article everywhere the other day.
Gonna have to check out Google Blog Search and see how I can use it to my advantage
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Pinging your blog each time you have a new post or comment will help you gain visibility in Google's Blog Search results. Read about it on Google help: http://www.google.com/help/blogsearch/about_pinging.html. Interesting story on the eBay home sale..thanks for sharing!
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