Google indexing
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Hi
In my site I have 2 blogs, the first blog is a standard blog, every post is informative and over 6oo words with pictures and all of them are keyworded.
The second blog is basically a journal of bike rides i go on, with a picture and about 100 - 300 word writeup. I use a portfolio plugin to get this online.
My question is should I noindex nofollow all of these posts. Im not sure if google will see it as a lot of uninformative noncene, I dont write these as blog posts they are a journal I post 1 or 2 a day.
What is the normal practice for this... they are not keyworded or seo'd I dont want them to affect my seo or rankings.
Thanks
Chris
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There is honestly no need to worry about having "no keywords" in a post. Google is much more sophisticated than that - and besides, a post like:
"today I went out on a 16 mile bike ride over the chilterns using my Garmin 705, After the first 8 miles I used my hydropak and then continued on up the 3 mile incline which was helped by the quickshift speedwheel, I find that with all riding my ipod helps me and when I finally reached mile point I stopped and refilled the hydropak. "
... includes a whole lot of keywords relevant to cycling, location, accessories, etc. The internet and Google's index would be a very small place if it discredited websites with small entries or entries without keyword-rich text, as well.
I can't imagine a world in which these would hurt you in the slightest.
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Will these short posts with no keywords affect the rest of my site if I have it in the sitemap and let google index it?
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Can anyone comment on my latest post please?
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Hi
Thanks for all the great info..
Basically I work so hard on my main blog I just dont want the smaller blog effecting my ranking etc etc.
I do want people to find the smaller blog and I already syndicate it to twitter and facebook and google+
I dont keyword any of the posts on the smaller blog they are litterly like
"today I went out on a 16 mile bike ride over the chilterns using my Garmin 705, After the first 8 miles I used my hydropak and then continued on up the 3 mile incline which was helped by the quickshift speedwheel, I find that with all riding my ipod helps me and when I finally reached mile point I stopped and refilled the hydropak. "
Im just worried google will see 2 posts a day like that and it will hinder my site?
So to sum up, I do want people to view these although there will be no way to keyword every post.
Do I exclude or include in sitemap?
Im worries that the content being so small will pee off google
Whats the best practice here, my main blog on the same site pulls in most of my traffic.
Thanks
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I wouldn't worry about adding the no follow tag - unless you don't want anyone seeing your journal entries. I recommend not linking back to your second blog from the first blog, if you don't want to see traffic.
Google may decide not to index it on their own but they will likely index the pages. Those pages may not get found in SERPs. I do not recommend switching to Tumblr, mainly because it sounds like you don't really want people to see your content and Tumblr will likely find ways to send you traffic (it's a social blog, afterall).
You can keep with your status quo.
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Hi Chris,
A short write-up doesn't mean that Google is going to automatically look at this and then slap a penalty on you. I would personally look at how you could enhance these by just covering some best practice basics to help do more with them.
How long has this smaller blog been running for? Have you been penalised so far? I wouldn't necessarily rush to move everything unless there is a need to.
-Andy
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Frankly i wouldnt worry about it. Unless your journal entries are really poor and not unique in any way, I would just carry on. If you ARE really concerned, you can noindex / follow them or better still, move your journal to an external blogging platform if it doesnt fit the theme of the site, something like Tumblr might work well for you by the sounds of it.
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