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Google Recognizing Non-Blogs as Blogs

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A number of people have noticed that Google is viewing their websites as blogs when they are not really blogs. They are finding that Google is placing them in blog search portions of universal search results in regular Google searches.

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Why would Google do this?

Another person suggests the inclusion of commenting on a site, but the original poster says their site doesn't allow comments. A different user suggests that RSS feeds could be the reason that Google is viewing sites as blogs. At Search Engine Roundtable, Barry Schwartz also

If you're getting into blog search results (particularly in Universal results), you're opening up your site for additional traffic. If your site isn't a blog, there's a good chance users will figure this out once they click through to it. Hopefully the content on the site is at least relevant to the user's query.

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