Google weirdness — this site purged from Google
Posted by bfwebster on December 10, 2008
Posted under Admin, Main
It appears that this site was purged completely from Google sometime on the evening of December 6th. I have no idea why. This means, of course, that not only are no Google searches coming to this site, but that the site has likely lost whatever ‘authority’ it had in the Google search algorithm.
Anyone with suggestions as to why this may have happened? ..bruce..
December 10th, 2008 at 16:05
The Great and Terrible Google has its mysterious ways and purposes. For some reason, they may have thought that you were a spammer of some sort.
That happened to my site a while back but I can’t remember why.
Googling around you can find tips on how to be reinstated or “reincluded” back to the internet.
Such as here:
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/reinclusion-request-howto/
It may be pain and take several weeks for them to work it out, but obviously it’s worth it.
Good luck.
December 10th, 2008 at 16:27
Well, I went through the “This site may be harmful” problem with one of my other blogs last spring, but that didn’t strip me entirely from Google — it just issued a warning whenever my blog showed up in a Google search.
I’ve logged in over at the Google Webmasters site and left a question there; we’ll see if it gets answered. ..bruce..
December 10th, 2008 at 17:27
When going to google.com, I search for the string “Adventures in Mormonism”, and nothing comes up as you mentioned.
However, in google chrome, if I type the same string into the address/search bar, I get a link to AIM right on the top of the list, so in some way google is still serving it up in some cases?
That may help in the analysis. Maybe.