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onFlex.org removed from Google Search!
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Not sure what is up but Google Search has systematically removed 100% of my direct blog entries from search results. I started getting complaints last week about this via email from folks looking for articles on my blog (still using blogger too!). At 360Flex several other developers mentioned they could not find my articles either. Hmmmmmm.....When folks search for "Flex" on a wide range of topics I am typically in the top results. I even use Google search to find my own articles. But by majority they are 100% removed from the search engine.
1. I am using Google Blogger to write my blog entries.
2. I am using Apache + PHP on the server.
3. The posts are pure HTML and urls are clean.
I used to be the top post for all these Google search queries:
Flex DisplayList
Flex Event lifecycle
Flex ActionScript Performance
I am wondering if something changed in the search algorithm or if my domain was just excluded from results.
Weird how this sort of coincides with announcing my working with Yahoo. I know Google "does no evil" but this seems a bit off and looks very strange.
Google please change the logic that is excluding my blog posts in your search results. I am a customer of Google, I have relied on your services (even paid for them at one point), and use blogger so my posts are included in search.
I hate to point fingers here but something is amiss in Google Search as nothing has changed on my server at all.
Ted :)
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Has Adobe been stealing too many employees from the big G recently?
Maybe you should add robots.txt file allowing access everywhere (just in case).
Also, see if adding sitemap (http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/) helps bring your site back into Google's index.
Also, check in Google's Webmaster Tools section (https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/siteoverview) when GoogleBot last indexed your site and if there were any problems. Those tools are great, although only a few people know about them.
I am pretty sure Google wouldn't do something directly but the algorithm change has excluded all my pages. uhhhgggg....
Hmm, you're not even in the first page of results with term "flex displaylist patrick". Searching for "onflex.org" pulls it up as #1, so it looks like a weighting issue rather than an exclusion issue.
Yup, Google's "Info for Webmasters" support site suggests this test too:
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=34443&topic=8523
But nope, even in a domain-restricted test they've lost stuff:
http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aonflex.org+displaylist
Do you have any reason to suspect your link structure might have been flagged as dysfunctional or shady? If it was a common linking pattern then then it seems Google would need to fix this.
Their algorithms regularly shift, and similar symptoms have come up for other folks before. I don't see any special notices here today:
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/
But SEO Roundtable reports massive link-analysis restructuring right now:
http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/012619.html
For a quick fix without waiting for Google, an SEO-friendly sitemap might help:
http://sitemaps.org/
Something's definitely wrong... they haven't locked you out, but they aren't showing you accurately, either.
jd
Search for "flex displaylist patrick" on Ask.com returns nothing from onFlex.org.
LTM
Did you get thrown into Google's Supplemental Index? http://www.seobook.com/archives/002030.shtml
You're in the index, try searching for "site:onflex.org" and you get a list of all the pages from your site that are in Goole's index.
Ted, you admitted to listening to "Whoomp! There It Is by Tag Team" and you question why you were removed from a search engine ;)
I've also noticed that FlexCoders is not indexed by google.
It's the first time in many many years I've used something other than Google for search.
I used to search by "Ted Patrick" to get to your blog but a couple weeks ago I noticed that "Ted on Flex" was no longer coming up as a result. I thought at the time that was very weird. (I had previously booked marked the page in del.icio.us but I am lazy)
No better time then the present to switch to Yahoo! for all your search needs. Search for Ted Patrick and look who comes up at number 2. "Who does number 2 work for????" :)
see http://devshots.com
google's private cool site
Ted,
Sorry, I slipped them a $1bn to do it.. Bill gave me keys to one of his money bins and thought it would be great fun to Punk you Google style..
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Is it because you talk about Flex and since its not Open Web and the whole Mozilla + Google thing happening - it's a conspiracy! .. quick wrap your head in tinfoil before they steal your thoughts...
(Seriously: That's fubar man, especially since you're using their product - blogger.com)
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Scott Barnes
Developer Evangelist
Microsoft - Good Empire
Hey, i see you are using bloggger. How did you manage to have your site url without any blogger branding?
Also, which RSS reader would you recommend? something that can also email RSs updates? the IE7 feed reader seems to be lame.
Thanks,
Sid