Blogspot SEO Experiment: Update #3 (Content is Live, Google is "Crawling")

 Hey everyone, welcome back to the Blogspot Experiment. This update, for November 9th, is a little later than I usually plan, but it's a big one. This is the update where "action" starts to meet "patience."

In my last posts, I was focused on getting the blog set up and indexed by Google. Now, the real work has begun. I'm thrilled to report that two of the biggest "to-do" items on my list are officially done.

1. The First "Real" SEO Post is Published!

This is a big milestone. All the posts so far have been about the experiment. But to truly test if Blogspot can rank, I need to write articles that target real keywords people are searching for.

Well, the first one is live! I just published "How to Rank on Google with Blogspot: The First 5 Steps."

This post is my first real attempt at creating a long-form (over 1,500 words!), helpful piece of content optimized for a specific search term. This is the "real" test—can a post like this, on a free Blogspot domain, actually get traction in the search results? We're going to find out.

2. We Are Officially on YouTube!

The second big piece of news: the YouTube video for this experiment is live!

My strategy here is twofold:

  1. A New Traffic Source: YouTube is the world's second-biggest search engine. By creating a video, I can tap into a whole new audience that might prefer watching over reading.

  2. A High-Authority Backlink: The video description includes a link back to this blog. A link from Google-owned YouTube is a very high-quality, trusted "signal" to send back to our experiment.

This adds another "vote of confidence" for our blog and helps Google understand that this is a legitimate project.



The Big Question: Where Are Our Posts? (The GSC Update)

Okay, now for the most interesting part of the experiment so far.

My homepage has been indexed for a while, which is great. But what about the posts?

I went into Google Search Console (GSC) to check on the status of my new SEO article and the other updates. And here's what I found: "Crawled - Currently Not Indexed."

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This is the most fascinating (and common) hurdle for a new website. Let me translate what this means:

  1. "Crawled": This is good! It means the Googlebot (Google's robot) has found my posts. It followed the links, landed on the pages, and "read" them. My sitemap and internal links are working.

  2. "Currently Not Indexed": This is the "patience" part. It means that after reading the pages, Google decided not to add them to its official search engine results... yet.

This is not a failure. This is the "Google Sandbox" in action.

Google doesn't trust new websites. Period. It's not going to waste its resources indexing every single page from a brand-new, unproven blog. Our "authority" is still zero. Google is effectively saying, "Okay, I see your pages. I'll keep them in my back pocket. You keep publishing, and if you still look like a serious, high-quality blog in a few weeks or months, I might come back and index them."

This is the main hurdle for any new site, and it's the biggest question of our experiment: How long will it take for a new Blogspot blog to earn enough "trust" for Google to index new content quickly?

Right now, we're in the "waiting game" phase. My next steps are to keep writing, keep building the site, and prove to Google that we're a reliable source of information.

Thanks for following along. I'll be sure to update you the second this status changes.

This post is part of a live, public case study: The Blogspot Experiment.

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