Ahh, I see someone is asking “why is the Windows Live Writer blog banned from Google?” They are talking about that over on Channel 9 too.
I doubt it’s banned. There are lots of reasons things don’t get into Google very highly. For one the search term isn’t in the title tag (which, for many searches, is more important than how many inbound links you have). For two someone notes that the HTML on Windows Live Spaces is giving lots of errors on the validators.
Anyway, tomorrow I’m gonna visit Matt Cutts at Google. He loves these kinds of questions. I’ll make sure he gets a good answer. I’ll be the guy wearing my “I’m not Matt Cutts” t-shirt. Just incase anyone gets us confused. Also on the calendar is the Calendar team. Meeting me there will be Scott Mace who runs the Calendarswamp blog. Should be an interesting day!
Here’s a question I’d like answered (via C9):
Posted by LaBomba // Wed, Aug 30, 2006 10:54 PM
Search about Windows Live Spaces on google, you’ll find blogs external to Microsoft talking about Live Spaces, but you won’t find actual created Live Spaces in the results…
Here’s a question I’d like answered (via C9):
Posted by LaBomba // Wed, Aug 30, 2006 10:54 PM
Search about Windows Live Spaces on google, you’ll find blogs external to Microsoft talking about Live Spaces, but you won’t find actual created Live Spaces in the results…
Matt will be the one wearing the “I’m not Google Guy” t-shirt
Matt will be the one wearing the “I’m not Google Guy” t-shirt
[...] I’d like to add that I have a contact at Google who is being very responsive about investigating this, and it looks like Scoble is going to ask around on his visit to Google tomorrow too. So I think we’ll soon have some kind of answer to the mystery. I’ll post the final answer when we know. [...]
The HTML generated by Spaces is likely not the reason. I could give you a hundred queries where Spaces show up at or near the top (like Maryam Scoble).
Plus, I doubt the fact that Yahoo and MSN/Windows Live return the Writer blog in the #1 spot mean they have better HTML parsers than Google.
The HTML generated by Spaces is likely not the reason. I could give you a hundred queries where Spaces show up at or near the top (like Maryam Scoble).
Plus, I doubt the fact that Yahoo and MSN/Windows Live return the Writer blog in the #1 spot mean they have better HTML parsers than Google.
Yeah, you’re probably right. I’ve seen HTML troubles in the past get Webmasters in trouble, though.
I’ll find out the deal and get back to you.
Yeah, you’re probably right. I’ve seen HTML troubles in the past get Webmasters in trouble, though.
I’ll find out the deal and get back to you.
[...] Aha, looks like he’s got a question for me about the Windows Live Writer blog. Without doing any actual debugging (I’m not on the VPN), I noticed: [...]
Hey, I did a quick look and posted here:
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/scoble-visiting-the-plex/
Looking forward to seeing you tomorrow!
Are you also planning to stop by the Mozilla lunch event tomorrow? It’s right here by the Googleplex.
http://www.lunch20.com/2006/08/22/lunchzilla-20/
Hey, I did a quick look and posted here:
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/scoble-visiting-the-plex/
Looking forward to seeing you tomorrow!
Are you also planning to stop by the Mozilla lunch event tomorrow? It’s right here by the Googleplex.
http://www.lunch20.com/2006/08/22/lunchzilla-20/
Kunal: I didn’t even know about that. Damn, there are so many things going on here. I have to check Upcoming.org just to find out!
Kunal: I didn’t even know about that. Damn, there are so many things going on here. I have to check Upcoming.org just to find out!
Google goes through phases of accurately returning windows live spaces in their results. Up until shortly after the release of live spaces the results were as they are today (e.g. can’t find sh*t), but then the problem got fixed and once again results were the same as live or yahoo searches.
Now it seems they’re broken again.
Google goes through phases of accurately returning windows live spaces in their results. Up until shortly after the release of live spaces the results were as they are today (e.g. can’t find sh*t), but then the problem got fixed and once again results were the same as live or yahoo searches.
Now it seems they’re broken again.
At least fix your site before you complain about it. Geesh!
At least fix your site before you complain about it. Geesh!
[...] Other developments on this:-Scoble is visiting Google shortly, and bringing it up to Matt Cutts-Channel 9 “Niners” are chatting it up-Matt Cutts is now on the case [...]
Did you ever find the answer as to why it wasn’t listed?
Did you ever find the answer as to why it wasn’t listed?
[...] After the issue was picked up by Channel 9, and was then Scoblized, there was a lot of speculation about possible causes of the problem. I’m actually very happy that the theories about this being an SEO issue turned out to be bogus. While I can understand that SEO techniques have their uses for weighing one link better against another in generalized topic searches (say something like “WYSIWYG Blog Editor“), the idea that inadequate SEO could prevent a link as strongly tied to “Windows Live Writer” as the Writer Zone’s introductory blog post from even showing up in the results would make me seriously doubt the integrity of a search engine. [...]
Good point. definitely agreeed with it.
Good point. definitely agreeed with it.
WHAT I DONT GET IT SO CAN YOU HELP ME TOMORROW PLEASE
WHAT I DONT GET IT SO CAN YOU HELP ME TOMORROW PLEASE