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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

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Post by Goofy_Coyote »

firefoxd wrote: post #152
Goofy_Coyote wrote: post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Question: If I do a search for say crypto on your blog, how does Google gets to index the resulting page? I’m imagining something like “blog.example/?s=crypto” which only I should see, not Google. Edit: Where they linking to your website from their own? (In that case the link with the bad search keywords can be crawled)

They are spamming other websites with links to my website like in your example. Google crawl those other websites, follow the spammy link to mine, and I get penalized for having a page with spam content. The solution is to tell the crawler that my search page shouldn't be indexed. This can be done with the robots meta tags.

I see, thanks for helping me understand the issue (and also the solution)

Re: Google de-indexed Bear Blog and I don't know why

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Post by ipaddr »

Goofy_Coyote wrote: post #108
firefoxd wrote: post #22

Traffic 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…

Question: If I do a search for say crypto on your blog, how does Google gets to index the resulting page? I’m imagining something like “blog.example/?s=crypto” which only I should see, not Google. Edit: Where they linking to your website from their own? (In that case the link with the bad search keywords can be crawled)

Link.com?search=spam from external page

Re: Google de-indexed Bear Blog and I don't know why

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Post by fragmede »

lunias wrote: post #111
bjt12345 wrote: post #6

What I find strange about Google, is that there's a lot of illegal advertising on Google maps - things like accomodation and liquor sellers that don't have permits. However, if they do it for the statutory term, they can then successfully apply for existing-use rights. Yet I've seen expert witnesses bring up Google pins on Maps during tribunal over planning permits and the tribunal sort of acts as if it's all legit.…

I was a victim of this when I moved into my house. Being unfamiliar with the area, I googled for a locksmith near me. It returned a result in a shopping center just about a mile away from me. I'd driven past that center before, it seemed entirely plausible that there was a locksmith in there. I called the locksmith and they came, but in an unmarked van, spent over an hour to change 2 locks, damaged both locks, and th…

Locksmiths and plumbers is especially one of those things that they've figured out how to game the system to get an extra expensive service that they contract with instead of a local company that is less expensive and doesn't have the middleman.

Re: Google de-indexed Bear Blog and I don't know why

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Post by ipaddr »

jgalt212 wrote: post #94
firefoxd wrote: post #22

Traffic 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…

> 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. This been our experience with out content-driven marketing pages in 2025. SERP results constant, but clicks down 90%. This not good for our marketing efforts, and terrible for ad-supported public websites, but I also don't understand how Google is not terribly impac…

They moved from clicks to pageviews which gives them cover until AI ads make up the difference.

Re: Google de-indexed Bear Blog and I don't know why

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Post by noAnswer »

socalgal2 wrote: post #154
lunias wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was a victim of this when I moved into my house. Being unfamiliar with the area, I googled for a locksmith near me. It returned a result in a shopping center just about a mile away from me. I'd driven past that center before, it seemed entirely plausible that there was a locksmith in there. I called the locksmith and they came, but in an unmarked van, spent over an hour to change 2 locks, damaged both locks, and th…

Just curious, if you were Google, how would you fix this? And take the question seriously, because it's harder than it sounds. They are certainly trying. It's not good for them to have fake listings. https://podcast.rainmakerreputation.com/2412354/episodes/169... (just googled that, didn't listen, was looking for a much older podcast from I think Reply All from like 10yrs ago)

They could send real mail to the address with an activate code in it.

Re: Google de-indexed Bear Blog and I don't know why

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Post by subpixel »

Bearblog.dev keeps subdomains out of search indexes until it approves them, as a measure against hosting the sort of things that would get the whole system de-indexed.

My guess is that they are more successful at suppressing subdomains than at getting them indexed. After all, they are not in control of what search engines do, they can only send signals.

For reference, I have a simple community event site on bearblog.dev which has been up for months and is not in any search index.

Re: Google de-indexed Bear Blog and I don't know why

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Post by hackerbeat »

FuturisticLover wrote: post #9

Google 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.

Totally. Bing works like a charm for all my sites, whereas Google fails them all, and they couldn't be more diverse.

Re: Google de-indexed Bear Blog and I don't know why

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Post by ipaddr »

scosman wrote: post #69

How does one debug issues like this? I have a page that ranks well worldwide, but is completely missing in Canada. Not just poorly ranked, gone. It shows up #1 for keyword in the US, but won't show up with precise unique quotes in Canada.

Buy a .ca domain for seo results and point to existing content

Re: Google de-indexed Bear Blog and I don't know why

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Post by hackerbeat »

dazc wrote: post #27

Breaking News: Google de-indexes random sites all of the time and there is often no obvious reason why. They also penalize sites in a way where pages are indexed but so deep-down that no one will ever find them. Again, there is often no obvious reason.

Totally. They've completely lost the plot.
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