The author doesn't know the cause but states "The whole affair is Google’s fault"?
Surely whether Google indexes a page or not is Google's decision?
Google de-indexed Bear Blog and I don't know why
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Re: Google de-indexed Bear Blog and I don't know why
#122Traffic to my blog plummeted this year and you can never be entirely sure how it happened. But here are two culprits i identified. 1. Ai overview: my page impressions were high, my ranking was high, but click through took a dive. People read the generated text and move along without ever clicking. 2. You are now a spammer. Around August, traffic took a second plunge. In my logs, I noticed these weird queries in my se…
I posted some details in the main thread but I think you might need to check the change in methodology of counting impressions and clicks Google did around September this year. They say the data before and after is not comparable anymore as they are not counting certain events below a threshold anymore. You might need to have your own analytics to understand your traffic from now own.
This affected only reporting of placement and impressions; basically you don’t get counts for placements below the first 10 or 20 results (can’t remember which). It did not affect clicks which are measured directly regardless of how deep in the SERP they happen.
Re: Google de-indexed Bear Blog and I don't know why
#123It’s weird that the number one search engine in modern times is so finicky, perhaps just has become way over-engineered and over-rigged. Just index the web, at a certain point they went from search engine to arbiter of what people can find.
Re: Google de-indexed Bear Blog and I don't know why
#124Earlier quoted context omitted.
AI overviews likely aren't going anywhere. Techies complain about it, but from seeing average people use google - everyone just reads the overview. Hell I even saw a screenshot of an AI overview in a powerpoint this week... Anyway, I'd really like to at least see google make the overview text itself clickable, and link to the source of the given sentence or paragraph. I think that a lot of people would instinctively…
That is how duckduckgo has implemented it, I also find it to be a nicer middle ground.
Kagi too (and before DDG).
Re: Google de-indexed Bear Blog and I don't know why
#125This submission title is wrong. The Title should be what the post title is:
"Google De-Indexed My Entire Bear Blog and I Don’t Know Why"
Bearblog.dev is not de-indexed from Google. I can pull up results fine.
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#126Earlier quoted context omitted.
Cache has nothing to do with this But yes just noindex search pages like they already said they did
Not sure how search result pages can be crawled unless they are cached somewhere?
I don't know what you mean by cache but you aren't using it correctly...
Re: Google de-indexed Bear Blog and I don't know why
#127Google search results have gone shit. I am facing some deindexing issues where Google is citing a content duplicate and picking a canonical URL itself, despite no similar content. Just the open is similar, but the intent is totally different, and so is the focus keyword. Not facing this issue in Bing and other search engines.
Yeah, Google search results are almost useless. How could they have neglected their core competence so badly?
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Re: Google de-indexed Bear Blog and I don't know why
#128Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sounds like point 2 was a negative seo attack. It could be that your /?s page is being cached and getting picked up via crawlers. You can avaoid this by no caching search pages and applying noindex via X-robots tag https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/...
Cache has nothing to do with this But yes just noindex search pages like they already said they did
I think the question is “how are the behavior of random spammers on your search page getting picked up by the crawler”? The assumption with cache is that searches of one user were being cached so that the crawler saw them. Other alternatives I can imagine are that your search page is powered by google, so it gets the search terms and indexes the results, or that you show popular queries somewhere. But you have to admit that the crawler seeing user generated search terms points to some deeper issue.
Re: Google de-indexed Bear Blog and I don't know why
#129Had the same issue - we have a massive register of regulated services and Google was a help for people finding those names easily.
But in August suddenly "Page is not indexed: Crawled – currently not indexed" shot up massively. We've tried all sorts to get them back into the index but with no help. It would be helpful if Google explained why they aren't indexed or have been removed. As with the blogpost every other search engine is fine.
Re: Google de-indexed Bear Blog and I don't know why
#130Had the same issue - we have a massive register of regulated services and Google was a help for people finding those names easily. But in August suddenly "Page is not indexed: Crawled – currently not indexed" shot up massively. We've tried all sorts to get them back into the index but with no help. It would be helpful if Google explained why they aren't indexed or have been removed. As with the blogpost every other s…
What url is your website if you dont mind sharing?