Direct link to my blog not showing up in Google
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I was wondering if someone could help me. I just recently started up my blog a few weeks ago – http://theroadshowversion.wordpress.com – and everything was going fine. It was showing up in Google and I was getting a lot of hits via search engines looking for “the roadshow version”
Now, I check google and find out that the only way to get to my site is via Technorati! The direct link to my site is gone and the only way to get to specific posts is through the WordPress “tag” pages. I’ve noticed there’s a been a drop in my site stats since this happened.
I just started pinging my posts separately, via the little box on the “write” page. Could this be the problem?
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It can take 4-6 weeks for Google to crawl your site.
I put your blog address into google’s blog search and it found you.
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Kind of odd: when you do a regular search for my blog, only two hits come up. When you repeat “with similar pages displayed” you get ten pages of results. Google’s being a little parsimonious with their results, I’d say.
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I don’t know what’s going on. Now I rechecked and even the Technorati link for my site is gone! This afternoon, I typed in the words “The Roadshow Version” and got the “about” page of my blog and now, that link is gone as well. It’s like I’m being eradicated off Google! Is that even possible?
Is it because I’m checking for my own site? This is really bizarre. A few years back, I used to run a personal site and I’ve never had problems like this.
thesacredpath, that only works if you type in the whole address for my site. I used to get a lot of hits looking for “The Roadshow Version blog” (apparently, people didn’t remember the address) and now, nothing. It’s very discouraging.
Thanks for your help–both you and raincoaster.
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Try some of these tools to get more information about Google:
http://www.mcdar.net/dance/index.php
http://www.prlookup.com/
This one doesn’t seem to work anymore, at least for me, but it WAS good: http://www.seologs.com/pr-check/fullpage-pr.htmlNot sure they’ll solve your issue. I’ve seen some strangeness with Referrers in the past couple of days, and Google is due for another shakeup, so give it twelve hours and see what happens. Could well be a chorus of complaints here by the time you check back.
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The content of the blog hasn’t been copied from elsewhere on the web, has it? Like, you imported it from a different blog and it’s still up at that site? Because Google will indeed throw you to the wolves for that. You’d need to make one site private and thus present to Google only one version of the content.
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raincoaster, thank you for all the links! What d you mean by Google is “due for another shakeup?” I’m fairly new to blogging, pings, trackbacks, etc.
The Roadshow Version is my first and only blog. I’ve never had another blog in my whole life!
I write all my own stuff. However, I’ve noticed other blogs somehow importing the information on my site though. It’s like one blog that imports all different entries from different blogs. It drives me crazy to see it, because I really don’t want anyone plagiarizing my work. What I write isn’t that great, but I put a lot of time and thought into writing out my entries. I don’t know how to stop other nameless blogs from doing this.
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I tried that “pr lookup” site, entered my site’s address and got the following message:
“Your client does not have permission to get URL”
I have no idea what’s going on.
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I got the same error. Ditch that site and move on. They break from time to time. Try this one, it gave me a 5 which is what I usually have:
http://www.rankwhere.com/google-page-rank.phpGoogle does periodic shakeups where they re-jigger their ranking system, both computer programs and human intervention. They do it about every three or four months, in my experience, and you can tell because we get complaints like this, people’s pagerank drops to zero, and then Google fixes their “upgraded” system and all goes back to normal.
The duplication you’re talking about is from blog scrapers, which is exactly why Google downgrades duplicated content: it assumes it’s stolen. Virtually all blogscrapers have lower pagerank than WordPress.com blogs (partly because of our tag/category system). Be sure to categorize properly (no more than 12 categories and/or tags per post) and continue to blog. I expect this will shake itself out in a day or so, and if it does not, perhaps you should re-submit your site to Google Blogsearch:
http://www.google.com/help/about_blogsearch.htmlBy the way, your blog is very good. Don’t be too modest!
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Raincoaster, thank you so much for the detailed information. The first time I saw the blog scrapers stuff, I was pretty ticked off. Never knew about the google stuff either. It’s good to know for the future.
Thanks again for all the help and for the comment on my blog as well! Take care.
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