Okay, I’m officially flummoxed. I’ve been sand-boxed, sand-bagged, sand-blasted, quick-sanded and burnished to the Olde World Glow of Burled Walnut: My searches are back, kindasorta. Not as many results as I had before, and not the same sequence. The heavy-hitter on “214 South 122nd Av” is BloodhoundBlog, but my reference to “214 South 122nd Av” on our listings page is nowhere to be found so far.
This might confound our friends at Free The Drones, who ferry us across the desert sands to The Google Sandbox Revisited. My take for now: A link to a custom weblog from BloodhoundBlog is probably more findable than building the website as a subfolder on our main website.
Google findability doesn’t matter to me as much as the “Wow!” factor of a custom website/weblog, but, from a completely useless one-off sample, linking from a weblog to anything else is findable faster than building anything into a static website. Next time out, I’ll register the new site at Technorati and cross-link from the new weblog to BloodhoundBlog to see if we can make things happen even faster.
For now: I concede. All of this was very quick, less than seven days so far. But Free The Drones has done better than I have at predicting events. My hat is off.
Further notice: By one standard, the new weblog isn’t really findable yet: Even though it’s been splogged at least twice now, there have been no spam comments yet…
Further further notice: Now everything we were seeing a few days ago is back — but still nothing from my listings page…
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marina says:
Greg, we’ve been having some funky problems with a few of our clients websites as well. They kept popping in and out of the Google index. But it seems they are now back after a tripple yo-yo effect.
You should check out Matt Cutt’s posts on their technology updates. Most likely what was happening to our client’s websites and to yours has to do with the updates.
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/smaller-issues/
October 15, 2006 — 9:32 am