My site (insurancenewsandviews.blogspot.com) has 17 pages indexed by Google (and a few relatively high rankings). It is a weblog with completely original content updated several times per week.
I submitted my website and my feed (in lieu of a sitemap) to Live.com, and I don't see any "crawl issues" on the dashboard.
I was wondering why my site hasn't been crawled, much less indexed.
I see some potential negatives, which I will attempt to address.
1. Its a new weblog (on blogspot, no less) - I update my site regularly, and don't scrape any content (not even a Google news widget!)
2. Lots of forum backlinks - I am a longstanding member of two forums (with a lot of posts) that predates my blog. When I added the address to my signature, it updated most of my (many) previous posts, leading to a flood of backlinks. I modified my signature to get traffic, not backlinks, as I learned that forums have been discredited as a way to get "juice."
3. No sitemap (?) - Is submitting a blogspot-formatted feed the wrong way to go?
I understand that a blogspot blog is pretty low on your totem pole, but I think that the content is original and valuable (and I have 100 visitors in two weeks already).
Thanks for your consideration.
