May 28, 2006
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Edited to add:
Still waiting on Xanga but Brenda states “If a post was always protected, and none of it ever surfaced in a public post, there ‘s no way Google or Yahoo or any other search engine would be able to find it.”
Please note Brenda’s comment on the post below, concerning Bloglines and the RSS Feed. I have contacted the Xanga team and asked them to comment.
Comments (8)
Just read “Apartment Hunting” – loved it.
I wonder how xanga feels about bloglines….it does seem pretty audacious to puiblish from another site….ryc I wish! I was thinking to myself if it is a gold mine I need to figure out how to use it…and I suppose I should. Its funny because it is also an important part iof my emotional life. I am sure as a writer you understand.
thanks for the info…i will await your response from the xanga team.
I am getting all kinds of traffic from Bloglines, too. No one leaves a comment. It’s very weird. But I don’t want to block people.
Thanks for your comment on my description of gardening.
I haven’t seen any traffic to my site from Bloglines, and I had already turned on the XangaLock, so the Google searches from non-Xangans were blocked, as far as I could see. I originally joined Xanga because my niece has a site–a site she doesn’t want her father to find. Since he already found it once and she changed her account, I am cautious about my site being visible on the ‘Net lest he find her site through mine.
Wow- I didn’t mean to cause any kind of drama at all. Or too spread misinformation.
Thanks for asking the Xanga people for clarity.
As far as I know, Bloglines does not post any protected posts, because I have readers who use it that never get the protected ones…and have to come and look for them.
Easy way to test: Take a few lines of one of your older protected posts (most likely to have been indexed by the search engine spiders) and put it into one of the search engines with qoutes around it. This is also a good way to check for people plagiarizing your posts or web sites.