Comments on: Has Google Stopped Indexing Blogs?

By: Chris at Watch TV Shows Online

Chris at Watch TV Shows Online — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 18:13:33 +0000

I don’t know about that, but I do know that recently a site of mine took some severe drops in Google search engine results pages. So something is going on!

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The Weekly Insider 9-15-08 to 9-19-08 — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 22:17:50 +0000

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By: Scott McAndrew

Scott McAndrew — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 20:55:55 +0000

I had several HTTP errors for both of the blogs I actively run last week. Google crawls one of the blogs immediately after posts are made and new posts generally go straight onto the blog search results with the web search results soon after. In the past few days I’ve noticed significantly more lag than I’d become accustomed to.

By: David Bradley

David Bradley — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 17:20:01 +0000

Apparently, Google is now aware of this issue. To quote from JohnMu, who is presumably staff: “This appears to be an issue in the reporting side of things in
Webmaster Tools. As far as I know, the “General HTTP errors” should be
gone soon . Thanks for bringing it to our attention, you guys are
the greatest!!”

http://groups.google.com/group/Google_Webmaster_Help-Tools/browse_thread/thread/d40a45ed11f1534e#

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 16:12:18 +0000

I had one http error on 8th September, but have been OK since. I’m still on WP 2.5 – wonder if the version makes any difference?

Cheers, Jon

By: Peter Young

Peter Young — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 10:06:50 +0000

Had the same with a number of wordpress blogs – both .com and hosted.

Is the problem merely with WordPress blogs, or have any other blog vendors been affected?

By: JohnMu

JohnMu — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 09:50:21 +0000

Hi Patrick, the “General HTTP Errors” should be disappearing from your account soon — it seems that this was an intermittent reporting issue in Webmaster Tools. It’s not an error you need to be worried about, sorry for the scare! If it doesn’t disappear from your account in the next day or so, it’d be great if you could post in the Webmaster Help groups at http://groups.google.com/group/Google_Webmaster_Help-Tools/browse_thread/thread/d40a45ed11f1534e/

By: DazzlinDonna

DazzlinDonna — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 20:11:39 +0000

I’ve made this comment elsewhere, but I think it deserves to be shared here as well: One seorefugee member found his blog indexing issue to be related to the switch to adsense for feedburner. (see http://www.seorefugee.com/forums/showthread.php?t=10624) Perhaps this will help at least some folks track down their problems.

By: Tom Goering

Tom Goering — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 17:37:49 +0000

My blog stopped having pages indexed in Google Blog Search the day I was excepted for AdSense for Feeds. Blog Search updates from the site’s feed.

My posts however do make it to the regular index on Googlebots regular rounds.

I deactivated Feedsmith in wordpress and everything is back to normal (except the benefits of feedsmith that is)

Got the same generic HTTP errors and I use Dotclear. Google is also very slow to refresh the index pages which is unusual as my blog has some decent popularity.