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How can I force Google Blogsearch to index my archived blog entries?
March 19, 2006 2:30 PM   RSS feed for this thread Subscribe

I'd like to be able to search my (MovableType) blog via Google Blogsearch, but they only update via RSS.

Most of my entries are many years old. I want to be able to search those entries. Is there any way to force Google to pick those up? (Adding a sitemap doesn't seem to have helped.)
posted by dmd to computers & internet (4 comments total)
Google BlogSearch gets most of its data from Feedmesh, a distributed ping-sharing network currently supported by Yahoo, PubSub, and others -- but not Technorati.

Until Google BlogSearch integrates their main search data the results will remain pretty limited.
posted by camworld at 2:50 PM on March 19, 2006


Try creating a fresh posts that has links to all your older posts.

That may help.
posted by labnol at 10:46 PM on March 19, 2006


dmd, do you have your blog set to send update notifications? Go to Main Menu > Scents> New Entry Default Settings and under "Publicity/Remote Interfaces" make sure the boxes are all checked. Save, and then publish a post, and you should be set.

If that is already set up and still isn't working, it may be because a lot of the pinging services have been having trouble with reliability at times.
posted by anildash at 1:15 AM on March 21, 2006


Yeah, I do. I have no problem with blogsearch (or any of the other indexers) picking up new entries. It's the old (as in, circa 1999-2004) entries that I want indexed, though, and no amount of repinging those seems to help.
posted by dmd at 8:02 AM on March 21, 2006


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