My blog and Google


22.10.07
After a long fight with duplicate content issues and meta title&description uniqueness here are the results that I've found based on my blog: http://nevyan.blogspot.com

- the blog content is fully spidered, but only half of the pages are in the main Google's index. I think that some time'll have to pass before the full recrawl and indexing to occur.

Here is what I've changed to the original blogger template:
- added 'nofollow' attribute to all blog feeds and external links(blog feeds were showing in google's results, increasing the keyword density thus raising a penalty).
- removed the description fields as it's pointed in googlewebmastercentral(either have them done correctly or no at all)

"We frequently prefer to display meta descriptions of pages (when available)..."
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2007/09/improve-snippets-with-meta-description.html
Using current Blogger platform with such dynamic content creation I think there's no way of writing unique meta descriptions and titles for each post. So in order to escape the duplicate title, description and h1 tags I've removed the meta description tag.
- created separate sitemap page with links to the internal blog posts. This time without 'nofollow' attribute. This way the sitemap functions as an entry to the blog posts.
- checked all the blog content to ensure that keyword density is bellow 2% - so it's not perceived as spam.
- added 'base' tag pointing to my blog's URL to ensure that search engines will know the originating post in case of content scraping.

The only think that I am worried about is the negative impact on the traffic that could have my SEO/webdesign posts on blog related on spyware.

25.10.07
I've touched a little bit the overall design. The number of indexed pages are going up and up!

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