Comments on: Are Blog Search Services Less Relevant Than Traditional Search

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By: melanie

melanie — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:00:29 +0000

Is there any benefit to searching within blog directories as opposed to standard search engines?

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By: david lee king

david lee king — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:19:38 +0000

Mukund – right you are – in fact, it’s 98% (that’s what it was last year from Google, anyway). But if they did that simple little thing, their search results would improve dramatically.

On your last thought – not sure I agree with the topical traffic part. If you post frequently on the topic of the day, but post less than stellar info, I’m thinking the traffic you get will lead to comments and posts saying negative things about your original post. Although you might get good traffic that day, the next it would drop – because other bloggers would have decided your blog wasn’t worth reading, and so moved on.

So I think your “thoughtful pieces” applies in both scenarios. Especially since Google’s main search that everyone uses WILL find you.

By: Ari Herzog

Ari Herzog — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 06:32:12 +0000

On your last comment, Mukund, I wonder if bloggers are using blog search engines or if people who remember search engines before Google made its mark are.

By: Mukund Mohan

Mukund Mohan — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 02:55:54 +0000

David
I dont think 90% (or 99% in fact) of the users searching will include quotes.
The traffic from google blogsearch to google search to find blogs is several orders of magnitude lesser.

Most users trying to find your blog (if they know your name) are searching on Google not on blog search engines. Blog search engines are primarily used by other bloggers. If you are trying to get organic traffic from search you are better off writing thoughtful pieces on specific topics. If however you are looking to get topical traffic from other bloggers looking for the latest, you are better off posting more frequently on the “topic of the day”.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 02:41:37 +0000

A side note, Ask uses Google search results. Just learned that in an online advertising class!

By: Roger Kondrat

Roger Kondrat — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 02:32:04 +0000

I don’t use blog search anymore, its not authoritative when compared to a search engine especially Google since they don’t appear to treat blogs differently anymore and they index in minutes what used to take days or hours unless you were a huge site.

Let us not forget blog search engines only appeared because we needed a search engine that spidered more often once Google fixed that problem, they largely became irrelevant verticals.