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March 25, 2005

Are Blogs Really Spider Food?

My friend and colleague posted this and I thought it was interesting:

Blogs, are they really "Search Engine Spider Food"?

As blogs have caught on like wildfire, there seems to be a constant two-part explanation around internet circles for the explosive growth.

First, they are super simple to set up and post, and unlike with traditional HTML, coding ability and/or software is not necessary.

Second, blogs are being referred to as "search engine spider food." The search engines appear to like blogs a lot, perhaps more so than HTML websites.

While I agree 110% with the first part of the explanation, I find myself asking why blogs are considered "search engine spider food."

Is it that they are compiled primarily of text content with text navigation and combined with clean code? ie most everything you would want in order for a spider to find, crawl and navigate a site. Or is it that with the ability of trackbacks and pinging other sites, blogs have become the easiest and most efficient method of collecting backlinks? I am starting to feel it is the latter of the two explanations.

I have personaly launched a handful of blogs since the first of the year, and while it took a while to get indexed, a couple of my blogs are beginning to show up well in those engines that most value backlinks (Google & Yahoo). However, in those engines that discount backlinks and pay closer attention to tags and content I have not done nearly as well.

Perhaps the explanation is simply that the combination of both the clean text code and the use of trackbacks is what causes blogs to appear to be "search engine spider food." My findings thus far may just be coincidence, but regardless, it is interesting the disparity in rankings. I would love to hear what others have to say.

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Posted by marketplacesna at March 25, 2005 10:33 AM

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