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Re: louisgray.com: MyBlogLog's FriendFeed Integration is Fouling Up Google Vanity Searches

iankennedy — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:07:32 -0000

Louis, we just added code to keep the search engine crawlers out of the New with My Neighborhood and New with My World pages. Give it a week or two to clear itself out of the indexes and that should clean stuff up.

Ian

Re: louisgray.com: MyBlogLog's FriendFeed Integration is Fouling Up Google Vanity Searches

Wayne Smallman — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:33:11 -0000

Personally, I find MyBlogLog to be a complete and utter shambles of a service, made all the worse because of the potential it has which is being totally squandered.

Here's an excerpt from a less-than glowing appraisal of MyBlogLog I wrote a while ago:

"All that MyBlogLog really offers is a list of the other Social Networks, Social Media portals and IM (Instant Messaging) services we’re signed up to. In almost every respect, the conversation is being directed away from MyBlogLog, rather than into."

So it would seem that the mess that is MyBlogLog is seeping out on the very plumbing of the interwebs.

Quick! Someone call a plumber, we have a blockage...

Re: louisgray.com: MyBlogLog's FriendFeed Integration is Fouling Up Google Vanity Searches

tamar — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 11:17:11 -0000

Gah, and I thought I was the only one bothered by this. I think that if Google Alerts would be all-inclusive (rather than selective), it may actually benefit us -- but until then, you're right -- it's messy.

Re: louisgray.com: MyBlogLog's FriendFeed Integration is Fouling Up Google Vanity Searches

Louis Gray — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 03:20:11 -0000

Ian, making the New With My Neighborhood and New With My World subpages unavailable to crawlers would absolutely solve the problem, and go a long way to reducing the clutter. I failed to mention in my earlier post that it also contributes to "Backlinks" for those of us who use Google Blogger. The point of the post was to draw attention to the issue, and not to pick at MyBlogLog for any reason, as I know you guys are on top of things. Great to hear you're looking into it.

Thanks!

Re: louisgray.com: MyBlogLog's FriendFeed Integration is Fouling Up Google Vanity Searches

iankennedy — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 03:16:11 -0000

Hi Louis,

It looks like a majority of the duplicate hits are coming from our New with My Neighborhood and New with My World sub-pages which are basically re-aggregations of everyone's lifestream via either your Contacts or your profile Tags. This is redundant information in a search engine so how about if we put in a fix to keep those two pages from being crawled?

Ian
MyBlogLog Product Guy

Re: louisgray.com: MyBlogLog's FriendFeed Integration is Fouling Up Google Vanity Searches

Ari Herzog — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 01:48:53 -0000

...and I thought I was seeing an anomaly. Glad to hear I'm not alone!

Re: louisgray.com: MyBlogLog's FriendFeed Integration is Fouling Up Google Vanity Searches

sarahintampa — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 22:01:44 -0000

I noticed this too. (I'm guilty of subscribing to an RSS vanity feed.). I guess that's what we get for being so self-involved. ha ha! :)

Re: louisgray.com: MyBlogLog's FriendFeed Integration is Fouling Up Google Vanity Searches

Kuanyin — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 22:01:43 -0000

The echo effect is definitely annoying. Best if Google refrained both from MBL and FF!

Re: louisgray.com: MyBlogLog's FriendFeed Integration is Fouling Up Google Vanity Searches

Rahsheen — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:53:42 -0000

Yeah, I noticed this as while back, but it hasn't really affected me much because I don't get many things happening to my content.

At least it makes me feel like I'm doing something when I get an email from google everyday :)

Re: louisgray.com: MyBlogLog's FriendFeed Integration is Fouling Up Google Vanity Searches

robdiana — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:47:03 -0000

I had someone (Svetlana from Profy I thnk) comment on a blog entry, but the comment seemed like it was from MyBlogLog. Neither of us could figure out what was going on because the comment only showed up in Google searches and not my blog, friendfeed, twitter or any of the other usual suspects. So, no, you are not the only one to have problems with this.

Re: louisgray.com: MyBlogLog's FriendFeed Integration is Fouling Up Google Vanity Searches

Jesse Stay — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:42:44 -0000

I've been getting the same - almost every e-mail on my name I get now has majority mybloglog entries

Re: louisgray.com: MyBlogLog's FriendFeed Integration is Fouling Up Google Vanity Searches

Corvida Raven — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:42:22 -0000

Google would be better off to stop aggregating those particular MBL results. They're annoying to see only because I get excited for no reason but at least I know it's aggregating my google reader shared items. Wouldn't that help the articles that I'm sharing when it comes to SEO?

Re: louisgray.com: MyBlogLog's FriendFeed Integration is Fouling Up Google Vanity Searches

Matt Shaulis — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:40:54 -0000

It sounds to me like this is Google's problem. they need to empower their searchers to filter out the content from these places and tailor their results to better suit their needs... that's just my take. MyBlogLog is just doing what people have asked them to... Google is the one responsible for the result set... i would put the onus on them.

Re: louisgray.com: MyBlogLog's FriendFeed Integration is Fouling Up Google Vanity Searches

Justin Korn — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:32:46 -0000

I would think, IMO, it would be easier and please more people if Google just removed MyBlogLog from the results.