WordPress.com Forums » Topic: is it possible force search engines to index 'private' blog http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/is-it-possible-force-search-engines-to-index-private-blog WordPress.com Forums » Topic: is it possible force search engines to index 'private' blog en Sat, 25 May 2013 00:09:47 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha-2539 options on "is it possible force search engines to index 'private' blog" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/is-it-possible-force-search-engines-to-index-private-blog#post-124564 Wed, 10 Oct 2007 23:27:59 +0000 options 124564@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ it's appeared this is an intended (by Automattic Inc.) behavior.

and here is why (for the record):

Blogs marked private are allowed to opt out because their linkbacks won't count for anything in Google. Mature blogs are not, because the global tag links were never intended to be useful for anyone other than Automattic. So what if they're forced to link to pages that have nothing to do with them?

sorry for some copy-pasting works, but wank has explaned it so nicely that I couldn't get rid of a temptation.

]]> options on "is it possible force search engines to index 'private' blog" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/is-it-possible-force-search-engines-to-index-private-blog#post-111743 Mon, 03 Sep 2007 21:34:41 +0000 options 111743@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Mature blogs categories links lead to completely empty Global Tag page.

it says:

"Sorry, we don’t have any posts here with that tag. You may want to try one of the sites below."

]]> drmike on "is it possible force search engines to index 'private' blog" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/is-it-possible-force-search-engines-to-index-private-blog#post-64165 Mon, 26 Mar 2007 16:28:14 +0000 drmike 64165@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Bad Behavior has issues on the WPMu platform though.

]]> trent on "is it possible force search engines to index 'private' blog" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/is-it-possible-force-search-engines-to-index-private-blog#post-64107 Mon, 26 Mar 2007 03:33:05 +0000 trent 64107@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ That is where Bad Behavior is a nice thing on self-hosted sites. If the search engines don't follow the rules of robot.txt, it blocks them. Great way to ensure they follow the rules....not something we have here (that I know of anyways).

Trent

]]> sunburntkamel on "is it possible force search engines to index 'private' blog" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/is-it-possible-force-search-engines-to-index-private-blog#post-63959 Sun, 25 Mar 2007 20:30:49 +0000 sunburntkamel 63959@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ re: OT -
yeah, i came across that one a couple days ago, looking for my meta widget ticket. fun times.

@drmike-
i believe you're right, i can't remember which engines don't properly observe the robots tags, but at the same time, there's the possibility that they might start.

]]> drmike on "is it possible force search engines to index 'private' blog" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/is-it-possible-force-search-engines-to-index-private-blog#post-63886 Sun, 25 Mar 2007 15:40:07 +0000 drmike 63886@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ There's some evidence that MSN and A9 are both ignoring noindex and nofollow. If I had more than 4 hours today to hit over a hundred emails, I'd give you some links...

]]> options on "is it possible force search engines to index 'private' blog" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/is-it-possible-force-search-engines-to-index-private-blog#post-63766 Sat, 24 Mar 2007 22:11:14 +0000 options 63766@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ uhm... nice idea; thank you, Adam, very much!

I should've guessed it myself -- it's a community thing, you know...

[off: just came across this funny ticket]

]]> sunburntkamel on "is it possible force search engines to index 'private' blog" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/is-it-possible-force-search-engines-to-index-private-blog#post-63762 Sat, 24 Mar 2007 21:34:20 +0000 sunburntkamel 63762@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ you could also request being marked mature. that would give you your tags back, but not put up the 'noindex' tag.

and, no, i'm not aware of any way around the noindex tag.

]]> options on "is it possible force search engines to index 'private' blog" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/is-it-possible-force-search-engines-to-index-private-blog#post-63744 Sat, 24 Mar 2007 20:04:26 +0000 options 63744@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ good evening mark,

thank you very much for this question! yes, indeed it's very a good one (though I thought you could guess it out of hand ;-)

the answer is really simple: I [still] want my tag links will all become local.

but the only way to accomplish it is to "mark my blog as private under privacy options" what, at the same time, prevents my blog from indexing by SE (that's what I do not want to).

funny, isn't it? ;-)

]]> mark on "is it possible force search engines to index 'private' blog" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/is-it-possible-force-search-engines-to-index-private-blog#post-63736 Sat, 24 Mar 2007 19:19:27 +0000 mark 63736@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Why would you set a blog as Private and then invite the search engines in ?

]]> timethief on "is it possible force search engines to index 'private' blog" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/is-it-possible-force-search-engines-to-index-private-blog#post-63730 Sat, 24 Mar 2007 19:00:17 +0000 timethief 63730@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ What an interesting idea: special page form where RSS feed could be submitted to index (there's one SE which has it).

]]> options on "is it possible force search engines to index 'private' blog" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/is-it-possible-force-search-engines-to-index-private-blog#post-63727 Sat, 24 Mar 2007 18:49:51 +0000 options 63727@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ howdy TT,

thanks for looking this for me, I've happened to see this thread before; alas, it does not answer that question above (G-desk/tool-bar ain't something that's going to get a residence permit on my desktop).

for instance, I thought about something like special page form where RSS feed could be submitted to index (there's one SE which has it).

]]> timethief on "is it possible force search engines to index 'private' blog" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/is-it-possible-force-search-engines-to-index-private-blog#post-63720 Sat, 24 Mar 2007 18:22:40 +0000 timethief 63720@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ G'day
I don't know if this thread will be useful to you or not but at least I know you won't shoot me down for bringing it to your attention, right? http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic.php?id=6775&page&replies=39#post-44044

]]> options on "is it possible force search engines to index 'private' blog" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/is-it-possible-force-search-engines-to-index-private-blog#post-63701 Sat, 24 Mar 2007 17:24:09 +0000 options 63701@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ is there any way (ping or whatever?) make SE to ignore NOINDEX (and such) meta-tags set by wp.com 'Private' option and have them index 'Private' blog in spite of these meta-tags?

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