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Hey Guys,
Posts that were ranking on page 1 of Google all of a sudden are no longer indexed at all and I haven't a clue why and Google give you no indication as to the c
There is no hope and it is going to be worse. Dealing with Google has become impossible.
Sites are now being built by AI and this is a business between machines.
What I find amazing is the lack of reaction to your post here, although the issues you are talking about must be widespread. It appears people pretend not to see them.
More than likely people are not aware of this as they probably don't check the previous posts, and to be honest you can't blame them because we might be talking about hundreds of posts.
What do you do, spend hours revisiting old posts which will probably be crap anyway because of the learning curve or do you just push forward.
If you don't push forward then the only option is to call it a day but I have spent far too much time on this.
To be honest I have been going through the posts one by one and a lot have dropped well out of contention whereas they were on page 1.
So maybe the way forward is to say screw you Google.
If you are going to penalize me for working my arse off then why not use AI and @@@k it.
To your last sentence. I had a small site 50 posts deindexed by Google one year ago, only a few remained in Google. Kept it for 11 months as a dead body hoping for some miracle, and then deleted.
Now I am making another one on the same niche, and every post and page will be AI generated. So let's see, it did not like human made site, perhaps a machine made will be fine for its machines. I am making 5 posts per day easily.
Diane inspired me, she has a big site created the same way, all posts indexed. Think about this.
Yes, I was reading Diane's post that referred to this and am intrigued to see how it works out.
Obviously, wouldn't be prepared to risk screwing up this site because I really do need to get this sorted since I have put so much effort into it.
I would certainly consider an AI-only site but this is my priority for the moment.
My biggest site has more than 1200 posts so I can understand what effort mean. But the March algorithm update reduced its traffic by half. The same with my other two sites that have more than 1400 posts combined. It is hopeless.
I am sure this has no future. It worked great until two years ago. The sites were creating a 6-figure income.
I can understand your frustrations and maybe my 2 years of hard work will be to no avail and down the toilet.
It certainly looks like the affiliate marketing game has changed no-end and it is only the strong that will survive.
You can see why nobody is communicating in this thread because people don't want to know but it is a reality and if you want to make it then you have to comply and make some drastic changes.
I have mentioned in another thread, that it was frowned upon to use content spinners and was detrimental to your business and now everybody is using them.
How strange that things should change the way they have.
I would like to say a lot more but unfortunately, this is not the place.
Can you request re-indexing them again, or you may want to connect to them via the ones already indexed? Then next time google crawls, they will discover the ones that aren't. Why would google deindex a post?
You can ask which I have but nothing happened.
I have read a lot of stuff on it but at the end of the day if you think you have written a unique piece of content and I know I have and Google deindexes your content because it thinks it isn't then there is no hope.
You just keep going around in circles.
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Having issues with posts that were indexed and now they aren't?
Hey Guys,
Posts that were ranking on page 1 of Google all of a sudden are no longer indexed at all and I haven't a clue why and Google give you no indication as to the c
Hey Mick,
Due to two of my sites with reviews being totally ignored by Google since December of last year, I got so ticked that I walked away from them while reconstructing my local business site.
When transitioning all the changes over to my live business site, I discovered that I had to go back inside Google Analytics and get all the Google stuff again... sheeesh... BUT... here's the clincher...
It's a good job that I had to... because... I discovered that with the changes that happened with the older Google tracking code and the new... well, there is a Google TAG that you now have to add.
WHAT?!!!!
Yeah... that was what I said.
So... while inside Google Analytics getting my local business site updated with the necessary coding... I updated the other 2 sites to include THEIR new Google tags.
That happened on Tuesday.
This morning when I logged into the two sites that appeared to have been ignored by Google since December last year... POOF! They were back on the map once more!
Go figure!
Check to see if you have the new Google Tag on your site that is giving you issue. If not... add it, then check back in 2 or 3 days, to see if that MIGHT make a difference.
Google is such a pain in the you-know-what... that I wrote a rant post on my personal blog about their silly changes they've pushed on us over time.
Hey... LOL, the ranting made ME feel better... what else can I say.
Hope you find this helpful.
Hey Trish,
You got me here so I did a search in Google and it refers to the new Google Analytics 4,
"The Google tag is currently only accessible and configurable from Google Ads and Google Analytics 4" Google...
So you are on GA4?
Mick
Yes, I added the GA4 script to my header back when it was the talk on here. I think it was Jay who first brought this to our attention.
Google suggested adding it, NOT replacing the older tracking code, so they could make it so you wouldn't lose data.
But the tag I'm referring to is a Meta Tag that I added to my Rank Math plugin, under Rank Math > General Settings > Webmaster Tools.
See 1st screen print below...
I am NOT positive that this is what worked. Am just saying that magically, 2 days AFTER filling in these fields... my traffic started to return.
See 2nd screen print below...
From ZERO traffic to 4K today!
Thanks, Trish I will check it out and I need to get this GA4 sorted but I think the reason why I have ignored it is that Google says it will create it at the end of March.
Not sure that is wise since Google is blatantly out to S***W everyone.
Cheers
Mick
You BET! Google IS a pain in the...
However... ChatGPT is giving Google a run for their money right now.
I work behind a VPN in order to protect my privacy with Google, and when I did that... Google started making me jump through hoops with EVERY search I did... just to use their search engine.
So... off I went and used Start Page instead... which does the Google searching for me.
Then... during the time that ChatGPT became even MORE popular... and while I was wrapping up the finishing touches on my new local business site... magically, Google lets me Google search now... WITHOUT continually clicking on their RECAPTHCHA.
(I use screen prints of Google search results when helping others.)
LOL, I now wonder if Google is starting to play a LOT nicer, out of fear that we'll all start to turn to ChatGPT for answers to our questions. LOL!
Looks good on Google!
Hi, Trish, Am I reading that right, that the code should be put on EVERY page/post? In the past, I also had +370 clicks, and now dropped to 15...
Not sure what you are reading Peter.
I use Rank Math and only put the Meta name HTML code in one textbox.
There is no hope and it is going to be worse. Dealing with Google has become impossible.
Sites are now being built by AI and this is a business between machines.
What I find amazing is the lack of reaction to your post here, although the issues you are talking about must be widespread. It appears people pretend not to see them.
More than likely people are not aware of this as they probably don't check the previous posts, and to be honest you can't blame them because we might be talking about hundreds of posts.
What do you do, spend hours revisiting old posts which will probably be crap anyway because of the learning curve or do you just push forward.
If you don't push forward then the only option is to call it a day but I have spent far too much time on this.
To be honest I have been going through the posts one by one and a lot have dropped well out of contention whereas they were on page 1.
So maybe the way forward is to say screw you Google.
If you are going to penalize me for working my arse off then why not use AI and @@@k it.
To your last sentence. I had a small site 50 posts deindexed by Google one year ago, only a few remained in Google. Kept it for 11 months as a dead body hoping for some miracle, and then deleted.
Now I am making another one on the same niche, and every post and page will be AI generated. So let's see, it did not like human made site, perhaps a machine made will be fine for its machines. I am making 5 posts per day easily.
Diane inspired me, she has a big site created the same way, all posts indexed. Think about this.
Yes, I was reading Diane's post that referred to this and am intrigued to see how it works out.
Obviously, wouldn't be prepared to risk screwing up this site because I really do need to get this sorted since I have put so much effort into it.
I would certainly consider an AI-only site but this is my priority for the moment.
My biggest site has more than 1200 posts so I can understand what effort mean. But the March algorithm update reduced its traffic by half. The same with my other two sites that have more than 1400 posts combined. It is hopeless.
I am sure this has no future. It worked great until two years ago. The sites were creating a 6-figure income.
I can understand your frustrations and maybe my 2 years of hard work will be to no avail and down the toilet.
It certainly looks like the affiliate marketing game has changed no-end and it is only the strong that will survive.
You can see why nobody is communicating in this thread because people don't want to know but it is a reality and if you want to make it then you have to comply and make some drastic changes.
I have mentioned in another thread, that it was frowned upon to use content spinners and was detrimental to your business and now everybody is using them.
How strange that things should change the way they have.
I would like to say a lot more but unfortunately, this is not the place.
Can you request re-indexing them again, or you may want to connect to them via the ones already indexed? Then next time google crawls, they will discover the ones that aren't. Why would google deindex a post?
You can ask which I have but nothing happened.
I have read a lot of stuff on it but at the end of the day if you think you have written a unique piece of content and I know I have and Google deindexes your content because it thinks it isn't then there is no hope.
You just keep going around in circles.
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In the last 8 hours, I have received 2 comments with the word [trackback] in it.
Now I have obviously Googled it and the message...
[In a nutshell, pingbacks and
I understand that and I have deleted the comments but I was just trying to get some more info, thats all.
Mick
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Anybody know exactly what [trackbacks] are in wordpress comments?
In the last 8 hours, I have received 2 comments with the word [trackback] in it.
Now I have obviously Googled it and the message...
[In a nutshell, pingbacks and
I understand that and I have deleted the comments but I was just trying to get some more info, thats all.
Mick
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Just wondered if anyone is having problems trying to access their website through the WA site.
How is it possible for the sign-on details to change without my input?
All fine Abie, apparently it was something to do with a temp folder on the server that should have been cleared on a regular basis.
Mick
I am having a problem publishing a post to my website, so far, Mick. I have put in a ticket to Site Support, but so far, no response.
Jeff
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Anybody having problems with accessing their website?
Just wondered if anyone is having problems trying to access their website through the WA site.
How is it possible for the sign-on details to change without my input?
All fine Abie, apparently it was something to do with a temp folder on the server that should have been cleared on a regular basis.
Mick
I am having a problem publishing a post to my website, so far, Mick. I have put in a ticket to Site Support, but so far, no response.
Jeff
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Just noticed today when I tried to add a meta description in one of the posts that I was unable to due to something that has changed...A small icon on the right-hand side of th
Just to let people know if they are using AIOSEO apparently there is a bug in the software that the developers are looking into.
Hey Mick,
What SEO plugin are you using?
Sounded like Rank Math, but I don't have the same issue you described.
Rank Math simply offers an Edit Snippet button to click on... which causes a window to pop out to use.
Ah... then what I would do is put in a ticket to their developer: https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/all-in-one-seo-pack/
Hey Mick,
Due to two of my sites with reviews being totally ignored by Google since December of last year, I got so ticked that I walked away from them while reconstructing my local business site.
When transitioning all the changes over to my live business site, I discovered that I had to go back inside Google Analytics and get all the Google stuff again... sheeesh... BUT... here's the clincher...
It's a good job that I had to... because... I discovered that with the changes that happened with the older Google tracking code and the new... well, there is a Google TAG that you now have to add.
WHAT?!!!!
Yeah... that was what I said.
So... while inside Google Analytics getting my local business site updated with the necessary coding... I updated the other 2 sites to include THEIR new Google tags.
That happened on Tuesday.
This morning when I logged into the two sites that appeared to have been ignored by Google since December last year... POOF! They were back on the map once more!
Go figure!
Check to see if you have the new Google Tag on your site that is giving you issue. If not... add it, then check back in 2 or 3 days, to see if that MIGHT make a difference.
Google is such a pain in the you-know-what... that I wrote a rant post on my personal blog about their silly changes they've pushed on us over time.
Hey... LOL, the ranting made ME feel better... what else can I say.
Hope you find this helpful.
Hey Trish,
You got me here so I did a search in Google and it refers to the new Google Analytics 4,
"The Google tag is currently only accessible and configurable from Google Ads and Google Analytics 4" Google...
So you are on GA4?
Mick
Yes, I added the GA4 script to my header back when it was the talk on here. I think it was Jay who first brought this to our attention.
Google suggested adding it, NOT replacing the older tracking code, so they could make it so you wouldn't lose data.
But the tag I'm referring to is a Meta Tag that I added to my Rank Math plugin, under Rank Math > General Settings > Webmaster Tools.
See 1st screen print below...
I am NOT positive that this is what worked. Am just saying that magically, 2 days AFTER filling in these fields... my traffic started to return.
See 2nd screen print below...
From ZERO traffic to 4K today!
Thanks, Trish I will check it out and I need to get this GA4 sorted but I think the reason why I have ignored it is that Google says it will create it at the end of March.
Not sure that is wise since Google is blatantly out to S***W everyone.
Cheers
Mick
You BET! Google IS a pain in the...
However... ChatGPT is giving Google a run for their money right now.
I work behind a VPN in order to protect my privacy with Google, and when I did that... Google started making me jump through hoops with EVERY search I did... just to use their search engine.
So... off I went and used Start Page instead... which does the Google searching for me.
Then... during the time that ChatGPT became even MORE popular... and while I was wrapping up the finishing touches on my new local business site... magically, Google lets me Google search now... WITHOUT continually clicking on their RECAPTHCHA.
(I use screen prints of Google search results when helping others.)
LOL, I now wonder if Google is starting to play a LOT nicer, out of fear that we'll all start to turn to ChatGPT for answers to our questions. LOL!
Looks good on Google!
Hi, Trish, Am I reading that right, that the code should be put on EVERY page/post? In the past, I also had +370 clicks, and now dropped to 15...
I have this information:
Not sure what you are reading Peter.
I use Rank Math and only put the Meta name HTML code in one textbox.
Hi, Trish, see the attachments.