Google Blogger blogs with Content Warning splash pages (http://
help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=86944) aren't friendly
with Google Webmaster Tools. The forced splash page is evidently to
confusing for the Webmasters Tool to bypass. Attempted verification
causes errors. Blogspot blogs without the warning work perfectly
fine.
This is mostly a problem for the Blogger Team, since this the splash
page conflicts with virtually every other service, including Google
Search, which only turns up "Blogger Content Warning" as the search
result.
> but since both are Google products maybe the two teams can get
> together to fix this problem.
Why would a professional team (for example search quality team- as
this is the crawling, indexing, ranking- not the webmasters help
section) care with a problem caused by service designed for amateurs?
> Google Blogger blogs with Content Warning splash pages (http://
> help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=86944) aren't friendly
> with Google Webmaster Tools. The forced splash page is evidently to
> confusing for the Webmasters Tool to bypass. Attempted verification
> causes errors. Blogspot blogs without the warning work perfectly
> fine.
> This is mostly a problem for the Blogger Team, since this the splash
> page conflicts with virtually every other service, including Google
> Search, which only turns up "Blogger Content Warning" as the search
> result.
Actually this problem has been ackowledged lately by a Googler.
However obviously there's no solution yet.
Mind you, to my way of thinking it rather makes sense not to include
such blogs in regular searche results, it defeats the purpose of
having that warning and entry page if the actual content were to be
cached and indexed.
It is similar to a situation where there is a login involved, robots
don't go there. The site has to have some cotent available without
logging in for robots to index any of it.
> > but since both are Google products maybe the two teams can get
> > together to fix this problem.
> Why would a professional team (for example search quality team- as
> this is the crawling, indexing, ranking- not the webmasters help
> section) care with a problem caused by service designed for amateurs?
> On Nov 26, 8:54 pm, Grey wrote:
> > The problem has been voiced before to no avail:
> > Google Blogger blogs with Content Warning splash pages (http://
> > help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=86944) aren't friendly
> > with Google Webmaster Tools. The forced splash page is evidently to
> > confusing for the Webmasters Tool to bypass. Attempted verification
> > causes errors. Blogspot blogs without the warning work perfectly
> > fine.
> > This is mostly a problem for the Blogger Team, since this the splash
> > page conflicts with virtually every other service, including Google
> > Search, which only turns up "Blogger Content Warning" as the search
> > result.
This is something the teams here are already looking into, but I don't
have more information than that at the moment. I agree that it would
be great if we could get all websites at least verified in Webmaster
Tools, as well as being indexed in the normal web search index. I'll
post as I know more.
Glad to get a response from a Google Employee. Sorry if I posted this
in the wrong section. I guess, I assumed this whole group concerned
itself with Google Webmaster Tool.
Thanks for your hard work. I really hope something can be done ASAP.
> This is something the teams here are already looking into, but I don't
> have more information than that at the moment. I agree that it would
> be great if we could get all websites at least verified in Webmaster
> Tools, as well as being indexed in the normal web search index. I'll
> post as I know more.
