In, Out, Google it all about
This blog has a funny thing happening to it! On the day it went properly live, which was the 5th December 2007, it was picked up by Google in an incredibly short time - no more than 30 minutes! I was astounded and kept checking the SERPS and yes it was true, imblogingit.com was indexed with links to all the posts - even the default wordpress “hello world” post which I hadn’t had time to remove!
Now, today I had a quick check and ‘hmmmm’ the blog is no where to be seen! Doing a site:www.imblogingit.com search in Google just came up with the old test pages - we were using this domain as a test bed for a clients new remote control models website (www.apexmodels.com). Where had the blog posts gone that had been indexed so quickly?
So now I’m doing a little experiment, I have removed the sitemap from Google webmaster tools and then reinstated it, also I’m posting this post which will auto generate a new sitemap and ping Google to let them know. Now just keep an eye on SERPS every now and then to see if the posts show up again… I’ll keep you updated.
Update 1: 10:15 - On checking Google with site:imblogingit.com (leaving off the www.) the blog pages are showing, interestingly with the www. on the urls.
Update 2: 11:30 - The site:www.imblogingit.com search is now showing the blog posts again! The new post is not showing up yet but Google picked up the new sitemap after about 10 minutes!
Update 3: 01:00 8/12/07 - Well I’ve been out this evening at a Christmas party in London so I’m a little jaded - but - now I have checked and all but one link on the blog has fallen out of the Google again - what on earth is going on!
Update 4: 08:40 10/12/07 - Two pages from the blog are showing in the index, the ‘about’ page and the December archive. No sign of the individual posts yet.
Update 5: 08:29 11/12/07 - OK some things have changed in the SERPS, the index page and the login page are now in the main index. The December archives have slipped into the supplementals and the Keywords are dead - long live content article has also made it into the supplementals. Yesterday I installed the All In One SEO plugin for Wordpress which should avoid content duplication - lets see how much that changes things.
Update 6: 13:50 12/12/07 - No change!
Update 7: 21:20 13/12/07 - The home page and keywords post are in the index (keywords was in supplimentals), the login and December archives have fallen out.
Update 8: 11:39 15/12/07 - Things are looking up a bit, 4 pages now in the main index: home, about, 301 redirect and keywords posts. Nothing in supplimentals and just need the latest post to arrive in the index and we are done!
