{"id":985,"date":"2008-10-01T22:30:37","date_gmt":"2008-10-02T02:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=985"},"modified":"2008-10-01T22:41:46","modified_gmt":"2008-10-02T02:41:46","slug":"google-blogsearch-good-for-hyperlocal-blogging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/01\/google-blogsearch-good-for-hyperlocal-blogging\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Blogsearch good for hyperlocal blogging?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google, in upgrading <a href=\"http:\/\/blogsearch.google.com\/\">Google Blog search<\/a>, has created an intriguing  potential competitor to Techmeme. The upgraded search provides broad blog coverage, picks up stories quickly and has the potential to project blog content more widely. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.readwriteweb.com\/archives\/google_blogsearch_relaunches_a.php\n\">ReadWriteWeb noted<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe new Google Blogsearch has the potential to reach tens of millions of people and drive insane amounts of traffic.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/googleblogsearch.jpg\" alt=\"Google Blog Search\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Whether that is true for local blogs is yet to be seen. There is however a feature that highlights blog by major search terms. This could have an a positive traffic impact for hyperlocal blogs as it emphasizes blogs related to primary geo search phrases:<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/googleblogsearch1.jpg\" alt=\"Geo Blog search\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google, in upgrading Google Blog search, has created an intriguing potential competitor to Techmeme. The upgraded search provides broad blog coverage, picks up stories quickly and has the potential to project blog content more widely. ReadWriteWeb noted: The new Google Blogsearch has the potential to reach tens of millions of people and drive insane amounts &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-maps-google-local","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=985"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":994,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985\/revisions\/994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}