TypePad blog gets indexed & ranks very highly in Google…
Thursday, September 16th, 2004 at
12:08 am
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
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.
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.
nice
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.
Any further confirmation that Typepad blogs get picked up quicker and rank higher on google than non Typepad blogs?
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!
What evidence do you have that Typepad gets index better in Google. Is this just a speculation?
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
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
This seem an old entry. I was searching for SEO..for
my beauty pagean blog http://www.herfactor.com
I am using wordpress but seems google really doesn’t like my blog..
I don’t know if what more I need to..fix:?
This is an interesting article. Wish I had read this sooner. Thanks for sharing.
-urieqo-
Not sure if you’re still keeping up with this, but the irony struck me. First off, your post is now on WordPress – obviously you migrated from Typepad (as did another of your commenters above, I was reading his blog just now).
Secondly – the COST is ridiculous at Typepad…and assuming you’re not getting a lot of IP diversity that way (for someone like me who hosts a number of websites, I need some diversity in IP address)…
So for whatever reason, Typepad seemed to work well and then…you went WordPress (which I’ve always been on anyway, it’s much too easy to use and too well-supported)…
Granted, you posted this 7 years ago originally, I’m sure you’ve learned a ton – but just curious why you moved from Typepad to WordPress? What sold you on the change?
Thanks.
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Joyce