{"id":367,"date":"2010-11-03T19:03:08","date_gmt":"2010-11-03T23:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/cuttingedgemarketingsales\/?p=367"},"modified":"2010-11-03T19:03:08","modified_gmt":"2010-11-03T23:03:08","slug":"how-do-you-rank-on-new-search-engine-blekko-should-you-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/cuttingedgemarketingsales\/how-do-you-rank-on-new-search-engine-blekko-should-you-care\/","title":{"rendered":"How Do You Rank on New Search Engine Blekko? Should you care?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blekko.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/blogs\/bobstovall\/img\/101104\/blekko.png\" alt=\"Blekko logo\" width=\"135\" height=\"53\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 15px 5px 0; border: 0;\" \/><\/a>There&#8217;s a new search engine in town. It&#8217;s not the first challenger to Google&#8217;s supremacy, but it may be one of the more interesting ones.<\/p>\n<p>According to their About Us page, &#8220;Blekko is a better way to search the web by using slashtags. slashtags search only the sites you want and cut out the spam sites. use friends, experts, community or your own slashtags to slash in what you want and slash out what you don&#8217;t.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Blekko has some interesting features. Theoretically, using what they call &#8220;slashtags&#8221; you should be able to narrow your search to results that are only of interest to you. Each result has a &#8220;spam&#8221; link. If you click that, you will never see that search result again &#8211; that&#8217;s a real plus if you are getting a lot of garbage results in your searches.<\/p>\n<p>But there are drawbacks&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Overall I found search results on Blekko to be much LESS useful than on Google even when using the slashtags to focus my search. In the example givenin their <a href=\"http:\/\/blekko.com\/ws\/+\/press-videos?h=1\" target=\"_blank\">video<\/a>, it looks easy and accurate &#8211; in my experience, it is neither.<\/p>\n<p>It my tests, I found that it does a HORRIBLE job with local search. Adding a town and state name to a keyword (a typical &#8216;long-tail&#8217; search in Google) yields results so varied that they are completely useless. Creating my own custom slashtag produced the same poor results.<\/p>\n<p>I conduct a lot of &#8220;one-time&#8221; searches and creating my own slashtags for these seems to be a lot of work for little return. If I take the time to create a slashtag, will ever use it again?<\/p>\n<p>I hope that this project grows into something that I can use, but right now I&#8217;d have to say it is not ready for primetime. Need results in a hurry? Use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Google<\/a> &#8211; or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bing<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Yahoo<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.about.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">About.com<\/a>. If you have time to kill on a new shiny object, give <a href=\"http:\/\/blekko.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Blekko<\/a> a try.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a new search engine in town. It&#8217;s not the first challenger to Google&#8217;s supremacy, but it may be one of the more interesting ones. According to their About Us page, &#8220;Blekko is a better way to search the web by using slashtags. slashtags search only the sites you want and cut out the spam &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"ast-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/cuttingedgemarketingsales\/how-do-you-rank-on-new-search-engine-blekko-should-you-care\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How Do You Rank on New Search Engine Blekko? Should you care?<\/span> Read More \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[289,49,287,210,130,85,212,135,30,208,211,133,129,150,288,152],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>How Do You Rank on New Search Engine Blekko? Should you care? - The Cutting Edge of Manufactured Home Marketing &amp; Sales<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/cuttingedgemarketingsales\/how-do-you-rank-on-new-search-engine-blekko-should-you-care\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"How Do You Rank on New Search Engine Blekko? Should you care? - The Cutting Edge of Manufactured Home Marketing &amp; Sales\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"There&#8217;s a new search engine in town. It&#8217;s not the first challenger to Google&#8217;s supremacy, but it may be one of the more interesting ones. According to their About Us page, &#8220;Blekko is a better way to search the web by using slashtags. slashtags search only the sites you want and cut out the spam &hellip; How Do You Rank on New Search Engine Blekko? Should you care? Read More \u00bb\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/cuttingedgemarketingsales\/how-do-you-rank-on-new-search-engine-blekko-should-you-care\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Cutting Edge of Manufactured Home Marketing &amp; Sales\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2010-11-03T23:03:08+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/blogs\/bobstovall\/img\/101104\/blekko.png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"tony\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"tony\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/cuttingedgemarketingsales\/#organization\",\"name\":\"MHProNews\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/cuttingedgemarketingsales\/\",\"sameAs\":[],\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/cuttingedgemarketingsales\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/cuttingedgemarketingsales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/MHProNewsDropShadowRWBlueLogo.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/cuttingedgemarketingsales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/MHProNewsDropShadowRWBlueLogo.jpg\",\"width\":658,\"height\":284,\"caption\":\"MHProNews\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/cuttingedgemarketingsales\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"}},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/cuttingedgemarketingsales\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/cuttingedgemarketingsales\/\",\"name\":\"The Cutting Edge of Manufactured Home Marketing &amp; Sales\",\"description\":\"on MHProNews.com\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/cuttingedgemarketingsales\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/cuttingedgemarketingsales\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/cuttingedgemarketingsales\/how-do-you-rank-on-new-search-engine-blekko-should-you-care\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/cuttingedgemarketingsales\/how-do-you-rank-on-new-search-engine-blekko-should-you-care\/\",\"name\":\"How Do You Rank on New Search Engine Blekko? Should you care? - The Cutting Edge of Manufactured Home Marketing &amp; Sales\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/cuttingedgemarketingsales\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2010-11-03T23:03:08+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2010-11-03T23:03:08+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/cuttingedgemarketingsales\/how-do-you-rank-on-new-search-engine-blekko-should-you-care\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/cuttingedgemarketingsales\/how-do-you-rank-on-new-search-engine-blekko-should-you-care\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/cuttingedgemarketingsales\/how-do-you-rank-on-new-search-engine-blekko-should-you-care\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/cuttingedgemarketingsales\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"How Do You Rank on New Search Engine Blekko? Should you care?\"}]},{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/cuttingedgemarketingsales\/how-do-you-rank-on-new-search-engine-blekko-should-you-care\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/cuttingedgemarketingsales\/how-do-you-rank-on-new-search-engine-blekko-should-you-care\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"tony\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/cuttingedgemarketingsales\/#\/schema\/person\/46deab4cca5e61931770b67a3947d8e1\"},\"headline\":\"How Do You Rank on New Search Engine Blekko? Should you care?\",\"datePublished\":\"2010-11-03T23:03:08+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2010-11-03T23:03:08+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/cuttingedgemarketingsales\/how-do-you-rank-on-new-search-engine-blekko-should-you-care\/\"},\"wordCount\":337,\"commentCount\":1,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/cuttingedgemarketingsales\/#organization\"},\"keywords\":[\"About.com\",\"Bing\",\"Blekko\",\"community\",\"factory-built home\",\"google\",\"land lease community\",\"manufactured home\",\"manufactured housing\",\"manufactured housing community\",\"mhc\",\"mobile home\",\"modular home\",\"search engine\",\"slashtag\",\"yahoo\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Search Engine Optimization\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/cuttingedgemarketingsales\/#\/schema\/person\/46deab4cca5e61931770b67a3947d8e1\",\"name\":\"tony\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/cuttingedgemarketingsales\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f7f9db9401911c61c6db36efa7df507b?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f7f9db9401911c61c6db36efa7df507b?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"tony\"},\"description\":\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/latonykovach\",\"sameAs\":[\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/latonykovach\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/cuttingedgemarketingsales\/author\/tony\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"How Do You Rank on New Search Engine Blekko? Should you care? - The Cutting Edge of Manufactured Home Marketing &amp; Sales","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/cuttingedgemarketingsales\/how-do-you-rank-on-new-search-engine-blekko-should-you-care\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"How Do You Rank on New Search Engine Blekko? Should you care? - The Cutting Edge of Manufactured Home Marketing &amp; Sales","og_description":"There&#8217;s a new search engine in town. It&#8217;s not the first challenger to Google&#8217;s supremacy, but it may be one of the more interesting ones. According to their About Us page, &#8220;Blekko is a better way to search the web by using slashtags. slashtags search only the sites you want and cut out the spam &hellip; How Do You Rank on New Search Engine Blekko? Should you care? Read More \u00bb","og_url":"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/cuttingedgemarketingsales\/how-do-you-rank-on-new-search-engine-blekko-should-you-care\/","og_site_name":"The Cutting Edge of Manufactured Home Marketing &amp; Sales","article_published_time":"2010-11-03T23:03:08+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/blogs\/bobstovall\/img\/101104\/blekko.png"}],"author":"tony","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"tony","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/cuttingedgemarketingsales\/#organization","name":"MHProNews","url":"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/cuttingedgemarketingsales\/","sameAs":[],"logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/cuttingedgemarketingsales\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/cuttingedgemarketingsales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/MHProNewsDropShadowRWBlueLogo.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/cuttingedgemarketingsales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/MHProNewsDropShadowRWBlueLogo.jpg","width":658,"height":284,"caption":"MHProNews"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/cuttingedgemarketingsales\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/cuttingedgemarketingsales\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/cuttingedgemarketingsales\/","name":"The Cutting Edge of Manufactured Home Marketing &amp; Sales","description":"on MHProNews.com","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/cuttingedgemarketingsales\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/cuttingedgemarketingsales\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/cuttingedgemarketingsales\/how-do-you-rank-on-new-search-engine-blekko-should-you-care\/","url":"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/cuttingedgemarketingsales\/how-do-you-rank-on-new-search-engine-blekko-should-you-care\/","name":"How Do You Rank on New Search Engine Blekko? Should you care? - The Cutting Edge of Manufactured Home Marketing &amp; Sales","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/cuttingedgemarketingsales\/#website"},"datePublished":"2010-11-03T23:03:08+00:00","dateModified":"2010-11-03T23:03:08+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/cuttingedgemarketingsales\/how-do-you-rank-on-new-search-engine-blekko-should-you-care\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/cuttingedgemarketingsales\/how-do-you-rank-on-new-search-engine-blekko-should-you-care\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/cuttingedgemarketingsales\/how-do-you-rank-on-new-search-engine-blekko-should-you-care\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/cuttingedgemarketingsales\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"How Do You Rank on New Search Engine Blekko? Should you care?"}]},{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/cuttingedgemarketingsales\/how-do-you-rank-on-new-search-engine-blekko-should-you-care\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/cuttingedgemarketingsales\/how-do-you-rank-on-new-search-engine-blekko-should-you-care\/"},"author":{"name":"tony","@id":"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/cuttingedgemarketingsales\/#\/schema\/person\/46deab4cca5e61931770b67a3947d8e1"},"headline":"How Do You Rank on New Search Engine Blekko? Should you care?","datePublished":"2010-11-03T23:03:08+00:00","dateModified":"2010-11-03T23:03:08+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/cuttingedgemarketingsales\/how-do-you-rank-on-new-search-engine-blekko-should-you-care\/"},"wordCount":337,"commentCount":1,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/cuttingedgemarketingsales\/#organization"},"keywords":["About.com","Bing","Blekko","community","factory-built home","google","land lease community","manufactured home","manufactured housing","manufactured housing community","mhc","mobile home","modular home","search engine","slashtag","yahoo"],"articleSection":["Search Engine Optimization"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/cuttingedgemarketingsales\/#\/schema\/person\/46deab4cca5e61931770b67a3947d8e1","name":"tony","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/cuttingedgemarketingsales\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f7f9db9401911c61c6db36efa7df507b?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f7f9db9401911c61c6db36efa7df507b?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"tony"},"description":"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/latonykovach","sameAs":["http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/latonykovach"],"url":"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/cuttingedgemarketingsales\/author\/tony\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/cuttingedgemarketingsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/cuttingedgemarketingsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/cuttingedgemarketingsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/cuttingedgemarketingsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/cuttingedgemarketingsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/cuttingedgemarketingsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":369,"href":"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/cuttingedgemarketingsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions\/369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/cuttingedgemarketingsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/cuttingedgemarketingsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/cuttingedgemarketingsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}