So over the past month or so I have noticed some rather odd behavior from ol’ Google. What type of odd behavior you ask? Well, let me tell ya. It seems that at random times, Google will pull my website from its listings, only to put it back into its listings a short time later.
The first time my website went MIA in Google’s listings I thought I got my site delisted (which I probably did - on accident of course). So, I killed my old blogs (they had a few repeat posts), killed the redirect (it pointed to this domain), and scoured the net for any other websites which I previously ran which could have caused me to get delisted. And then, just like that, a few weeks later, my website was back into Google’s listings. However, that did not last long.
The next day (or at least it felt like the next day), I was once again delisted. Only this time, I was relisted within a matter of minutes. Hmmm. I figured they had a glitch with their database or something, and simply paid no attention to it. But then, a few hours later, I was once again missing from the ranks. And it has remained like this for just over a month.
If you do a search for “Fonzo” or “Fonzo’s Biz“, sometimes you get my site, sometimes you don’t. It is (or at least seems) completely random. I cannot figure out how, why, or what is getting my site the on again off again treatment. It is really bothersome.
Ironically, or maybe it is just a coincidence, but right about the time this started I did two major things. One was sign up for Google Sitemaps, and the other was switch from Google Adsense to Yahoo Publisher (review/comparison coming soon). I guess either or could have played a part in the odd behavior of Google, but I would like to believe that they did not play a part in the whole ordeal. However, I simply cannot rule out the closeness of the events.
And regarding Google Sitemaps, my sitemap says that it has been updated recently (last post), but Google’s cache of my site (when it happens to be available), is from about a month ago. So what gives?
Anyway, has anyone else had a problem with Google and their website? My site shows up fine in Google Blogsearch (but who uses that anyway?) and just about every other search engine, but not in Google (well, at least not sometimes). I want to get to the bottom of this.
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