A big problem if you’re using expandable posts with short summaries on your blog

Posted on March 29, 2007 at 6:33 pm

Whoops! I had been using expandable posts on my blog for about a week (where only a short summary of the post is visible and the rest is hidden), until I realized that there is one HUGE problem with using them!!!

I was looking at Google Analytics for the last week and I realized that the number of visitors from an organic Google search had dropped pretty siginificantly and was curious as to why since I was posting a few articles every day with some decent content!

So then one day I was in the Google Webmaster tools and I wanted to see what pages the Google bot had index on my blog…come to find out it was indexing only the short summaries!!! The hidden part for some was not visible to the bot! And hence, since only a small portion of the content was visible, it concluded that there really was not very much content to this site! Talk about shooting yourself in the foot!

Make sure if you’re writing articles in Blogger or any other Blog editor NOT to use the summaries for your post! Otherwise no one will ever find your page! I’m writing computer tips, so I would hope my tips would actually reach someone! If it doesn’t matter to you what the Google bot knows, then you can continue using the summaries!

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