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(1 user)  More options Sep 8 2008, 3:47 am
From: rebeccamolay
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 00:47:40 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Mon, Sep 8 2008 3:47 am
Subject: Blogger's content warning stops the Google spider, what to do?
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I have been using Google's Blogger for some 8 months now with great
success. It is possible to build a solid readership in a short time
using the tool, and it is very user friendly.

I even managed to get good coverage in the search engines, Google
included.

My blog has erotic content, which have led Blogger to put up a content
warning page. Users will have to click on a link on that page to get
to the blog.

This is fair, and the content warning page itself has actually had no
effect on the number of visitors.

The reason I hadn't put up one myself was that I was afraid of the
effect it would have on search engine visibility. Unfortunately my
fear turned out to be based on a real problem.

The content warning page uses a DIV-tag/javascript for the relevant
button. There is no regular link from the Content Warning page to the
blog itself.

Even if Blogger is a part of Google, no one has apparently told the
Google spiders how to find away around this javascript. Nor has anyone
told the Blogger people to change the code of the content warning page
(or to give the spiders another route around this hurdle).

Now nearly all my listings in Google give a title and description from
the Content Warning page, and I am pretty certain that they will
disappear soon as well.

The Google Webmaster Central gives me error warnings about too many
redirects, and is not able to access the content. This means that
although it had accepted my verification from the time the site was
open, it is now no longer able to find the verification meta-tag
(which is, of course, in my index- file not in the content warning
page).

Given that Google wants to index all the information in the world, I
believe this is a technical issue, not an attempt at censorship.
Blogger does, after all, accept erotic content.

So my questions are:

1. Are there any ways to help the Google crawlers bypass the content
warning?

2. Could someone inform the right persons in the Google/Blogger-system
about the problem? I believe all it takes is to include a regular link
on the Content Warning page.

Best regards,

Rebecca


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