By looking at my Google Analytics account I am able to see the search terms people have put into Google to get to my site. These are what are known as organic searches as they come straight from what a user types into the Google search box, rather than a link to the site. It’s an incredibly useful tool as it shows you what your visitors are looking for even if your site has the information they want or not.

The search term “add my blog to google blog search” has come up a few times and upon further investigation I read up on Google Blog Search. It’s where you can use Google search technology to look specifically at blogs (user generated content) for the topic you’ve searched for. So then, how do you as a blog owner get your content listed on Google Blog Search?

The Short Answer…

All you need is a site feed! That is to say you need something like an RSS feed coming from your website. If you’re on Wordpress your theme has a 99.99% chance of having an RSS feed built into it. When Google comes along and spiders/crawls your site it will think “hey, here’s a feed…add this to Google Blog Search”. It’s all done for you! So my RSS feed(http://how-to-solutions.com/feed) was added the first time Google crawled this site and now I’m added to Google Blog Search.

How To Solutions on Google Blog Search

Just to prove that it really is that simple, let’s have a look at this site on Google Blog Search. Firstly let me say that I never “added” myself to Blog Search, it was done for me automatically by Google. Yet I’m still listed in Blog Search, sometimes in the number one spot depending on the keywords. Let’s have a look.

So we can see that for the keywords I used in my post covering a HTML Signature in Outlook 2007 the actual blog post has made it into the #1 position in Google Blog Search. Similarly the same has happened for my SEO for Wordpress Beginners Guide, also reaching #1 for certain keywords.

I hope this has helped answer a question a few people seem to have been asking recently. To find out more look at Google Blog Search Help. The help page does state “…we will soon be providing a form that you can use to manually add your blog to our index, in case we haven’t picked it up automatically. Stay tuned for more information..”. So people, get an RSS feed active on your Wordpress blog and get that site indexed.