Google Blog Search Algorithm Change to Fix Blogroll Issues
Google Blog Search blogroll detector algorithm has finally gone through a change. As a result bloggers may find the number of incoming links to their blogs getting reduced in the Google Blog Search. Here is what Googler Jeremy Hylton has to say about the change:
We have launched a ranking change that reduces the number of results
that are returned because of blogroll matches. There are still
problems to work out, but this change appears to be a big improvement
over our earlier fix. We had originally planned to launch an
experiment for link: queries, but decide more recently to release this
change first. We are still working on the link: change and expect to
have that ready in a few more weeks.
Those of you who have been keeping an eye on this long awaited change know the problem. For example, say your blog is listed in my blogroll. Now each new blog post that I make will give you a match to Google Blog Search even if I don’t mention your blog link in the post. But why? Because it considers blogroll as part of the post content. As a result, you will find some useless results in your link quiery. Now Google says that the issue has been fixed.
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