MakeSeoMoney.com

Many people credit me as the first make money online blogger. There were lots of IM before me but for whatever reason I seem to get a lot of credit. Whatever…. Either way the most common question I get is if you had to start over tomorrow what would you do. Well I can tell you how I got here and I notice its becoming a trend with others:

• You fell into your niche after trying and failing and one day started raking in the cash. (for me it was ringtones)
• You notice all these “Gurus” online talking about how to make money online but they seem out of date.
• You start your own blog under a anonymous name and start to call out these gurus. You call the products they sell scams and what not.
• You start to write guides on what is working for you and start to get a following.
• You come out of your shell and start speaking at conferences. (for me this was about 4 years ago.)
• Your original niche where you made all your money starts to die off so you start to leverage your blog following into building a REAL product.
• You start to write your own ebooks and guides (which I used to make fun of people for doing).
• You are now a guru and people attack you and call you a scam without knowing you at all. They also attack your audience saying anyone who listens to you is *sheep*
• You talk about how your blog was never supposed to be your thing and it all just kind of happened because you like what you do Read more…

Just because Blogger / Blogspot is owned by Google doesn’t make it SEO Friendly

For years I have been reading absurd suggestions that Google’s Blogger / Blogspot service is SEO friendly. At one time this was semi-true, and it is even possible with the current incarnation. However if you use the service “as intended”, without expert knowledge, you might find yourself up a creek without a paddle.

I am writing this on a Sunday, thus I am going to avoid vulgarities, cussing, and even an attention grabbing headline. The Google engineers at Blogger deserve that and more. Blogspot currently stinks for SEO.

Google Webmaster Guidelines Mess Up

This is probably the root cause of the Blogger problems

Use robots.txt to prevent crawling of search results pages or other auto-generated pages that don’t add much value for users coming from search engines.

Blogspot Doesn’t Have Categories

There was a historical lacking feature in Blogspot, no categories, and users wanted them.

So Blogger introduced labels, but they unfortunately followed the advice from their own Webmaster Guidelines, such as this example from Blogger’s own Blogger Buzz blog.

User-agent: Mediapartners-Google
Disallow: 

User-agent: *
Disallow: /search

Sitemap: http://buzz.blogger.com/feeds/posts/default?orderby=updated

That causes label pages such as this one on the Google Webmaster blog not to be crawled

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