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mysterym on "New Posts not showing up on Google"

mysterym — Tue, 15 May 2012 12:16:50 +0000

Hi everybody, thank you all for your support and theories of why things went wrong. Now my blog is indexed as well. However another problem comes with the Google search (not in Yahoo) as it links my site with https://.. The message is this:

You attempted to reach mysteerimama.com, but instead you actually reached a server identifying itself as *.wordpress.com. This may be caused by misconfiguration on the server or by something more serious. An attacker on your network could be trying to get you to visit a fake (and potentially harmful) version of mysteerimama.com. You should not proceed, especially if you have never seen this warning before for this site.

So now people have to be afraid of "attacker" if they enter my blog, because apparently "server identifying itself as *.wordpress.com" is not a secure connection.

I contacted WordPress and the reply is the following:

"As to why Google is linking to the https:// URL instead of http://, that's something you may need to contact Google about."

I doubt that Google cares at all. So yes, it is indexed again, but noo, it is labeled as unsecured connection.

Hope I'm the only one with this problem.

polentical on "New Posts not showing up on Google"

polentical — Tue, 15 May 2012 02:52:00 +0000

@timethief I meant to respond to everyone because I really appreciate how people help each other out on these forums. You in particular seem to be everywhere. Thank you!

timethief on "New Posts not showing up on Google"

timethief — Mon, 14 May 2012 21:26:45 +0000

@polentical
I know you are addressing raincoaster but I just wanted to say I'm so happy to hear that -- yes! :)

polentical on "New Posts not showing up on Google"

polentical — Mon, 14 May 2012 21:19:18 +0000

@raincoaster Thanks for the Webmaster tools link!

Also, my site is now being indexed again on a regular basis. All is back to how it was before! I don't know what did it. Perhaps Google has tweaked Penguin to adjust for the sites it was unjustly penalizing? I did fill out the "complaint" form, so that could have been it. Otherwise, I haven't changed my behavior at all.

raincoaster on "New Posts not showing up on Google"

raincoaster — Wed, 09 May 2012 18:43:12 +0000

This is also relevant: http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/check-google-webmaster-tools-have-a-sitemap-for-you?replies=5

polentical on "New Posts not showing up on Google"

polentical — Wed, 09 May 2012 18:11:01 +0000

@mysterym Who knows exactly what's in the algorithm? Maybe it's possible that it bumped up WordPress blogs as well...just not mine.

mysterym on "New Posts not showing up on Google"

mysterym — Wed, 09 May 2012 12:49:18 +0000

So migrating to Blogger now....? I'm really sad. I wish I had chosen Blogger in the first place.

I want my money back....

raincoaster on "New Posts not showing up on Google"

raincoaster — Wed, 09 May 2012 04:42:38 +0000

That would not surprise me at all. I've always gotten the feeling Google was jealous of WP.com's SEO advantages over Blogger, which have always been substantial.

And pingomatic will remind them of the entire site.

savantmuse on "New Posts not showing up on Google"

savantmuse — Wed, 09 May 2012 04:36:53 +0000

Well this is good news and bad news.

Good because now I know it's not my anything on my end that's making me invisible on Google suddenly. In trying out Chrome to fix a WP problem, I find now that I can't find my blog using Chrome.

Bad news because Google is a primary search engine and they've just wiped our blogs off. I'll definitely do as others did and let Google know what's up. Many thanks for everyone who brought this problem to our attention.

polentical on "New Posts not showing up on Google"

polentical — Wed, 09 May 2012 02:00:47 +0000

@mysterym @macmanx Jonathan Leger has a post up in which he hypothesizes that Blogger sites (including his own) have been given a major boost in Penguin.

polentical on "New Posts not showing up on Google"

polentical — Mon, 07 May 2012 03:40:46 +0000

@raincoaster
That's great to know about Pingomatic, thank you. It's a way of reminding them of the entire website, correct, or do you do it for individual posts as well?

@timethief
Thank you for the link. One of the reasons I never broke any of Google's rules was because I simply don't know enough about this whole process! I do appreciate the education.

timethief on "New Posts not showing up on Google"

timethief — Mon, 07 May 2012 02:50:50 +0000

@polentical
This may or may not apply but I do think it's worth looking into > Google Penguin Update Recovery Tips & Advice

raincoaster on "New Posts not showing up on Google"

raincoaster — Mon, 07 May 2012 02:50:02 +0000

Pingomatic WILL work. It's restored my social media blog to its usual place in the rankings.

polentical on "New Posts not showing up on Google"

polentical — Mon, 07 May 2012 02:27:36 +0000

@raincoaster. Timethief said that if I followed the linked guidelines, I would not have any problems. That is not true as I have followed the guidelines and still have had problems, with Google is no longer indexing my site.

Still, I appreciate the feedback, and I may look into Pingomatic, although I doubt that will work as Google appears to have decided that my site should not be included (as opposed to simply not knowing it's there). I wish you luck with your own site.

raincoaster on "New Posts not showing up on Google"

raincoaster — Sat, 05 May 2012 09:28:18 +0000

What TT is saying IS true. You may or may not have indulged in that behaviour, but if you did, what she said applies. There may be other reasons Google's not indexing you. It's not indexing one of my blogs properly either. I'm manually pinging at Pingomatic in the meantime to cover my bases.

A Google search isn't turning up the title or first line of my most recent post, although the blog is four years old and has regularly been posted to and indexed within hours, if not seconds.

macmanx on "New Posts not showing up on Google"

macmanx — Sat, 05 May 2012 09:16:16 +0000

Google is very protective of their algorithms, so I doubt you'll find a definitive answer.

If you do some searching for Google and Penguin, you'll find a few articles that suggest various unproven ways to check and "fix" your ranking.

Really, the best way to check is to just search for yourself, your blog title, maybe a few keywords and see if you can find yourself in the results.

Your latest post was just posted two days ago. Even before Penguin, it would have taken Google's index some time to include it. Remember, they have to index the whole internet.

mysterym on "New Posts not showing up on Google"

mysterym — Sat, 05 May 2012 09:11:17 +0000

Hi, how can I make sure that my site is not affected by the Penguin changes?

I read the Guidelines and I should be "clean". My website is here.

Anything that I can do to fix this? Contact Google? My new post is the first online review about a new restaurant. I need it to be shown in Google. This really sucks.

macmanx on "New Posts not showing up on Google"

macmanx — Sat, 05 May 2012 09:05:12 +0000

hi, if I understood the conversation correctly then there could be a possibility for Google not showing wordpress posts because they want people to use Blogger?

No, that is definitely not the case, has never been the case, and will never be the case.

What you are seeing are the results of Google's recent "Penguin" changes to their search algorithm, and we unfortunately have no control over this.

mysterym on "New Posts not showing up on Google"

mysterym — Sat, 05 May 2012 09:00:03 +0000

hi, if I understood the conversation correctly then there could be a possibility for Google not showing wordpress posts because they want people to use Blogger?

If that is true then I have to start the blog in Blogger? Because if Google doesn't find me, then nobody does.

I've had the same problem as well. Two weeks ago no trouble in showing up in Google. Yesterday I published a new post, had over 200 visitors and still invisible in Google!

WordPress, any comments on this? Any idea why the situation has suddenly changed?

polentical on "New Posts not showing up on Google"

polentical — Thu, 03 May 2012 05:37:02 +0000

@timethief. What you say is factually untrue. I have never engaged in one of those practices and yet Google stopped crawling my website on the day that Penguin was released. If I am wrong and you you see any one of those listed practices at my website, please let me know, but I'm far from alone in believing myself to have been unfairly hit by Penguin and I do not share your blind faith in Google's word.

timethief on "New Posts not showing up on Google"

timethief — Thu, 03 May 2012 04:01:26 +0000

I religiously avoid every link scheme, blog award scheme, etc.

raincoaster on "New Posts not showing up on Google"

raincoaster — Thu, 03 May 2012 04:00:05 +0000

Sounds like I dodged a bullet getting out of the link roundup business last year.

timethief on "New Posts not showing up on Google"

timethief — Thu, 03 May 2012 03:56:14 +0000

I'm sorry for the typo " Penguine alforitm" was meant to be "Penguin algorithm".

timethief on "New Posts not showing up on Google"

timethief — Thu, 03 May 2012 03:52:38 +0000

Indeed Google's Penguine alforitm is aimed at all black hat webspam and will have an effect on blog networks, blog carnivals, 3 way link building schemes, http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=66356
article spinning networks and violate Google’s Webmaster guidelines
Other examples are:
keyword stuffing http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=66358
link cloaking http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=66353
link schemes > http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=66356

If you use these you won't have any problems: http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35769#3

polentical on "New Posts not showing up on Google"

polentical — Thu, 03 May 2012 03:36:57 +0000

@horlogesenjuwelen: Unfortunately, I don't think it's because we did anything wrong. The new Google algorithm has tagged a lot of legitimate sites as spam. Some people are theorizing that it's because Google actually wants to make it harder for sites to get noticed unless they pay Google to be advertised. I'm not nearly enough of an internet expert to know why they have done this. I don't make any money from my site, so it's not as big a deal as it is for others, but it does make me start to question the quality of Google as a user as well as a blogger.

horlogesenjuwelen on "New Posts not showing up on Google"

horlogesenjuwelen — Wed, 02 May 2012 20:08:07 +0000

I've got the same problem !

In the past (blogging since january), my posts came all on top of the ranking. I now do exactly the same, but since this weekend Google does not pick up my new posts...

@ raincoaster : is it possible for you to check my blog as well ? Maybe it's something I did wrong ?

http://blog.colman-antwerp.com/

both "problem" posts :
http://blog.colman-antwerp.com/2012/04/29/breitling-5-jaar-garantie-warranty-cosc-manufacture/
http://blog.colman-antwerp.com/2012/04/28/x-fifty-fathoms-diverswatch-duikershorloge-blancpain/

thanks !

polentical on "New Posts not showing up on Google"

polentical — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 15:21:01 +0000

Thanks for double-checking my blog, raincoaster.

Maybe this is Google's way of prompting people to leave WordPress for Blogger? I submitted a complaint. And as this also suggests that Google has become less reliable as a search engine, I'm trying out duckduckgo and liking it so far. For one, they're still crawling and listing WordPress.com.

wintri on "New Posts not showing up on Google"

wintri — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 14:07:22 +0000

It would be nice if Google had a Customer Service department and you could talk to someone directly. Aren't these the guys where every employee is a millionare? I think they could afford a customer service department. I haven't gotten a response to my inquiry on their help forum and it is making me a little depressed that this issue may not get resolved anytime soon.

frieslandfarm on "New Posts not showing up on Google"

frieslandfarm — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 13:43:05 +0000

I am having the same problem but with Facebook, I have never had a problem before, it shows publicized but its not!

wintri on "New Posts not showing up on Google"

wintri — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 13:29:59 +0000

Is there anyone from WordPress that could contact Google and let them know? I submitted an inquiry to their Help Forum, but I haven't gotten a response yet. However, if it is affecting a lot of WordPress blogs then maybe someone higher up like a company official could contact them and have more influence. Thank you both for your responses.