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September 16, 2004
TypePad blog gets indexed & ranks very highly in Google...
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I've noticed that this blog has been picked up by google and has been getting a fair amount of traffic for terms like 'blogger vs typepad', 'wordpress templates', etc. That was fast! I wonder if having your site hosted on typepad is actually beneficial for your ranking to the point of making it the most appropriate blogging tool if your aim is to make any money with your blog (i.e., your blog has some commercial purpose)
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Well, it seems that we have to pay to be well indexed ?
gianfranco ramoser
Posted by: gianfranco ramoser | Oct 18, 2004 11:25:25 AM
Pay to be indexed? Nah - the only thing you have to pay for is your TypePad subscription. If Google is automatically indexing TypePad blogs, then the subscription price could be worth it - and the fast indexing could be a deciding factor with regards to which blogging platform one uses.
Would be interesting to see how quickly blogs created on other platforms, especially ones that are hosted on ones own server, get picked up by google.
Posted by: Emily | Oct 19, 2004 10:15:30 AM
Blogs are just naturally link heavy, and as you get links from one blog to another it provides linkage data on rapidly changing pages which likely have a good number of links pointing at them. This all means frequent crawling and frequent indexing. Typepay is probably a fairly authoritative type site and has many great sites hosted on it.
Posted by: aaron wall | Jan 4, 2005 2:57:43 AM
nice
Posted by: stars nues | Mar 30, 2005 3:27:48 PM
I just switched from Typepad to Word Press about a week ago. I was getting a ton of search engine hits with my Typepad account, but nary a one with WP hosted by Dreamhost. I'm wondering how I can rectify this because I really like the WP platform better. I did place the ping list you had posted here - very helpful.
Posted by: robin | Apr 3, 2005 11:09:57 AM
Any further confirmation that Typepad blogs get picked up quicker and rank higher on google than non Typepad blogs?
Posted by: Richard | Apr 30, 2005 3:04:16 AM
In my experience, it only takes 4-7 days for Google to crawl and index my Typepad sites ( http://www.prwebquickstart.com , http://www.richcontent-training.com are two that come to mind )... very effective if I have some content I need to get SE Optimized.
What's REALLY impressive is when you create an image gallery in TypePad's integral tool (it may also work with an external tool... I'm checking now with an OSX tool I found called PhotoTOWeb ( http://www.stone.com ) that allows rich HTML and Meta tags.
Anyhow, for http://www.Trikke12.com, when I had my image galleries in place, I was indexed and owned places 1,2,3 and most of the second page (even over http://www.trikke.com, the corporate site).
The "secret sauce" seems to be:
1) Ensuring your image gallery title is your keyword(s)
2) Ensuring your image names are keywords
3) Creating active links within the descriptive text of your descriptions
In fact, the image gallery showed up fastest, and highest... We're rebuilding the Trikke 12 Roadster blog right now to incorporate some new features (we're still working on how to modify TypePad to allow "perfect-width" banners, and how to add an upper CSS navigation bar... I'm sure these are trivial, but I'm stumped so far! Any hints? I'll gladly PAY for the right code bits to make those elements happen!).
Thanks for the nice insider comments here... I'm finding the blogging community to be pretty agnostic, with some amazing insider evaluations on sites such as this one right here. Great stuff.
Best regards,
ME
P.S. ANyone know if the Keywords are of the TypePad posts is actual Meta head tags? Or is it just some text that TypePad searchers can find in an internal search? I need to View source once in a great while...
OK My initial evaluation shows no real META tags of SEO value in the head of my blog postings... so that must be internal search terms... what a drag!
Posted by: Mark Alan Effinger | Jul 9, 2005 8:28:26 PM
What evidence do you have that Typepad gets index better in Google. Is this just a speculation?
Posted by: plantronics | Dec 31, 2005 2:17:39 AM
Great info here. I too feel you have an advantage by hosting with typepad but only to get indexed quickly which is moot for most established developers.
I just wrote an article on movabletype seo here: http://www.profitpapers.com/dev/movabletype-seo.php
Hope that's cool ;)
Posted by: Miles Evans | Feb 26, 2006 6:45:15 PM
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