Comments on: WordPress on every Google Search?

By: Joost

Joost — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 10:51:25 +0000

I observed the same, a post was found within the hour in Google. It lasted for only a good 24 hour at that high position. But when I modified my robots.txt this isn’t happening anymore. Heve to find out which line does the trick
I believe that it has something to do with the feed or the ping services.

By: Megapixels

Megapixels — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 10:26:15 +0000

Sorry to poke holes, but “fried pickles” without the quotes doesn’t show up till page 4 on my search. It’s a good one though I actually never know such a culinary delight existed. Who knew?

By: Gabe

Gabe — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 06:00:38 +0000

I have the number one image and web result for the word “nerdy” as well as a bunch of other common phrases. I’m pretty sure it’s not the tagging, but the titles, alt titles for images, relevant copy, simplicity of the site, lack of ads and/or popups, abundance of posts and click-throughs once they are indexed on Google.

And I only hate WordPress when I go to upgrade it and something gets messed up for a few hours.

Gabe

By: Wordpress je najlepší CMS na svete : M+M+M+M (4M)

Wordpress je najlepší CMS na svete : M+M+M+M (4M) — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:31:59 +0000

[...] Niet nad bulvár a miernu iróniu v nadpise, no akoko?vek, ak: “While browsing the results and then switching back to the search results page, I realized that the first page had at least three results that were either related to WordPress or were on a WordPress blog. I repeated the search for completely inane search terms and had at least one result show up on every search I performed from a blog that used WordPress as the blogging tool.” Zdroj: WordPress on every Google Search? [...]

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 02:10:57 +0000

eD! Thomas
“Bacon” comes up with some TextPattern blogs …

Bacon is very dear to the Text*’ers. I’m on TextDrive (now Joyent) and I’m always up for a good BLT.

By: Michael Breckenridge

Michael Breckenridge — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 05:57:25 +0000

Wordpress is the Wikipedia of the Blogosphere.

By: Joshua Mostafa

Joshua Mostafa — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 02:14:01 +0000

Isn’t it possible that some blogs are hosted on the Wordpress system but that this is not obvious from looking at the sites?

By: Zang

Zang — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 12:29:24 +0000

i agree with this! i have two blogs, one in Wordpress the other one in Blogger and I syndicate the same post in Blogger, though with a “continue reading” link to my new Wordpress blog, and when I searched the particular blog topic, my Wordpress blog shows up first, on the second page (there are still those competitors of mine) and my blogspot site a few entries after my Wordpress. It was a good decision I moved to WP.

By: Alan

Alan — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 07:47:50 +0000

Heh, I like where you were going with this. There is no doubt that Wordpress is very popular, and its patrons blog on a wide range of topics… At least we will nab all those search terms now that people have put them in your comments.

By: Wordpress rocks for SEO : Virtual Impax

Wordpress rocks for SEO : Virtual Impax — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 01:52:54 +0000

[...] Mark Gosh on the Weblog Tools Collection did his own unscientific research project and was kind enough to share his findings. In his “experiment” he typed in a keyword and took a look at what results were returned. In each case, the results returned a WordPress blog post on every Google Search. [...]

By: shawal

shawal — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 13:27:32 +0000

Wordpress are very SEO friendly….. That’s is why i really love to use wordpress, wherether it’s wordpress.com or .org

By: Steven

Steven — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 06:09:31 +0000

Ummm, http://www.google.com/search?q=plone, http://www.google.com/search?q=django, and http://www.google.com/search?q=pytho to name a few…

By: Andreas

Andreas — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 01:50:34 +0000

For me it would be an extremely unscientific 90% score, after searching for 9 random keywords (with the keyword “andreas” as the reference) and getting WordPress-based hits among the first 10 results in 9 out of the 10 searches.

Regarding the optimization power of WordPress (especially when used with a carefully designed theme), I wouldn’t want to use anything else. Common sense SEO at its best, I love it.

By: EricSchulz

EricSchulz — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 22:59:30 +0000

The phrase “I wrap” is being derived from the word “iWrap”. Google is including this in your search. This happens for many other phrases, especially compound words.

By: LiveCrunch

LiveCrunch — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:07:56 +0000

With over 40.000 new blogs created daily and almost 1 million posts a day you wonder how wordpress got that hight? If you done this search about 3 years ago you would notice only “joomla, VB Forums, PhpBB” now you only going to get wp, blogger, typepad (not as much)

Hope this answers your question.

Oh and by the way almost every post I make its in less then 1 hour scanned by google. See Example Here
I posted 2h ago but its already scanned.

By: raincoaster

raincoaster — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 17:38:17 +0000

I think Jason is on to something: there are odd results when you search for things known to be on WP.com blogs lately, as in things changed in the last two months. But generally the WP has the googlejuice.

I won a bet with a senior Drupal developer who didn’t think I could get to the front page of Google for the term “camel cheese” within 48 hours. Made it in seven (or less: I typed up the post, hit Publish, and went to bed; when I woke up I was #3).

By: Bill Austin

Bill Austin — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:07:30 +0000

We are finding that on most recent Google searches, many wordpress.com and blogspot.com blogs are being excluded from the top 20 or 30 results. I can find only a few wordpress.com blogs in the top ten for extremely relevant searches.

Hundreds of blogs that were ranked in the top 5 on Google for a couple of years have now vanished completely and only show up when you do a search that would have invoked the old “Supplemental Index” (now obsolete.)

If you search for the name of a very obscure blogspot.com or wordpress.com blog then it does show up in the results but for the most part they are excluded or demoted.

In a face to face meeting yesterday, I named some specific examples to several Google employees and was told that I was wrong and that they did not believe that was even possible.

They must send them to comedy training and acting school.

By: jason

jason — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:49:27 +0000

“wiki” comes up with no WP

By: Frank

Frank — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:09:52 +0000

You know, now that you’ve mentioned those words on this blog they will eventually be indexed by Google and wham! They will then be on a wordpress blog… This one…

I’m just saying… Anyway, it’s pretty much unavoidable though we may still not be quite there with every topic. Keep on blogging!

Regards,
Frank

By: simon

simon — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:51:07 +0000

google is successfull because it’s constantly working against spam or unrelated content. The fact is that wordpress userbase is incredibly large. Plus: wordpress unique features makes it very easy to many types of users… people that builds the net.