Google Issues

Michelle Dickerman and Greg Manweiler

Unfortunately by the end of last week my blog was removed from Google search results. The only page showing on the search results is the Andrew Alston post. I think I know what caused it and made corrections to fix the issue. I had accidentally put the noindex tag on my recent post and I think Google tanked the whole blog from the search results because of it. But now I have to wait for Google to crawl it again. That should however return the blog to search results when it happens. 


If it doesn't return to Google search then something else is going on. For the time being I'm assuming it was the noindex tag on that singular post, even if I think the entire blog getting dropped doesn't quite make sense for that. I don't see anything on my end right now that suggests a 3rd party had anything to do with it. Especially since I would assume that the website would have been affected as well if it was 3rd party shenanigans, and yet that site still remains up and running on Google. We'll see what happens. 

It does make it pretty clear however that I need to finish the transition over to the website. Blogger is a pretty neglected website. Given how long this specific blog has been operating there are also a lot of things that need to get cleaned up. I would be far better served with fixing up the website rather than dig through blogger to fix something that is decades old. Especially since blogger isn't controlled by me, which means it could be closed down at any time. My website however is owned by me, thus even if the host provider tanks I still own the domain name and can simply just shift the website material somewhere else.

Anyway, we'll see if putting up this additional post up causes Google to crawl the blog sooner.