Hi, friends. I owe you a lot of updates. I’ve got a notepad next to my desk just brimming with future blog post ideas.
But I’ve been having a hard time staying motivated.
What’s wrong, you ask? I can’t really complain. I love my new car. I’ve been meeting boys. I’ve even made some meaningful contributions at work.
But Google hates me. More specifically, Google hates the Guppie Life. And I don’t know why.
Want to see for yourself?
See? All the results are talking ABOUT my blog. But Google doesn’t link to the blog itself. Back in the day it used to link to my blog and even my individual posts, but not for 6 months or so.
Sometimes people say Google does this as a punishment if a website owner has done something shady in an attempt to manipulate search rankings. But I haven’t, I swear! And of course, Google is a multi-billion dollar company. They aren’t going to take the time to explain to me why they’ve gone sour on me.
Why is this a big deal to me?
Well, search engine visitors are often the number one source of traffic to a blog. Many sites and blogs get up to as much as 90% of their traffic from search engines. Without appearing in the Google search results, many normal people (i.e. people who are not themselves also bloggers) will never find the Guppie Life. And without them I can’t become internet famous. (Joke.)
Fellow bloggers, I encourage you to read Can Google Be Trusted? from SEOBook.com. It could happen to you, too.
Anyway, I don’t think there’s much I can do about this. I just wanted to vent. Thanks for listening, friends.
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Your blog’s overall lack of shadiness makes it shocking. No paid links, no whatevers, no nothing. Just blog.
Maybe you should write Google a letter asking if they’re homophobic? That might get you back in the listings. ;)
I know little about behind the scenes web stuff, but I wonder if there’s more you can do to tweak your meta code for the site other than actually having the title of the blog in there to pull up your hits. Know any experts out there?
I think you need to enter a witness relocation program, because of Godgle is trying to off you, they’ll get you sooner or later. They know too much. There’s no coming back after they delete you. New blog, new name, new avatar, EVERYTHING. In fact, I probably need to do the same because I have commented here. Dang.