These are the two most important factors for Blog ranking In Google Blog Search

• How fresh your content is
• Exact keywords in the title

These factors are not really discussed in the patent, they might seem obvious, but are easily overlooked.Even when sorting by relevance, in Google Blog Search the most relevant posts are the first few freshest. If there is lots of fresh content on a particular keyword, factors other than keywords in the title might not even come into it.

If you don’t have the exact keyword in the title, you are unlikely to rank highly. You can rank highly for “blogsearch” or “google blogsearch” and not even appear in the first 100 results for “blog search” or “google blog search”. Google Blog Search which only used one variation in the title, but used the variation with spaces in subheadings throughout.

Google only list one relevant document per domain with Google Blog Search, unlike the primary Google Search which may rank 2 pages. This post, because it will be fresher than my previous post, will most likely displace my previously high listing on the term “blogsearch”, at least for a short while