Search engines

Every blog is built so search engines can read it. New blogs stay out of the index until they look like real blogs.

What Bloggram generates

• A title and a description for every page.
• A canonical address for every page, and Open Graph tags for link previews.
• Structured data: the front page is marked as a website and each post as a blog posting, with its dates and language.
• An RSS feed at /rss.xml with the latest 50 posts, in full.
• A sitemap at /sitemap.xml, and a robots.txt that points to it.
• Photos in several sizes, with the post title as description.
• Plain HTML with no JavaScript, so pages load fast.

Why a new blog is kept out

Anyone can open a Telegram channel in a minute. So that search engines keep finding Bloggram blogs worth listing, a blog is not offered to them until it meets all three of these conditions:

• at least 5 posts that are visible,
• at least 10 subscribers in the channel, and
• at least 3 days since the blog was created.

Bloggram reviews new blogs every 24 hours. It gets the subscriber count from Telegram, which only works while the bot is an administrator of the channel. The first review after your blog meets the conditions promotes it. Until then, the dashboard shows what is still missing.

What a new blog looks like to search engines

• Every page carries a noindex instruction, as a header and as a meta tag.
• Links to other sites in your posts are marked nofollow.
• The sitemap is empty and robots.txt has no Sitemap line.

For people, the blog and its RSS feed work as usual. Only search engines are asked to stay away.

An admin can block a blog from search engines for good, for example after abuse reports. A blocked blog is never promoted automatically.

How long indexing takes

Once a blog is promoted, Bloggram offers it to search engines. When it shows up in results is up to them. That can take days or weeks, and Bloggram can't speed it up. Posts with a clear first line, a few paragraphs of real text and photos tend to do better than posts made of a single link.

Thin pages

A tag page with a single post is not indexed, even on a promoted blog. See Hashtags and tag pages.