Posted by nafnlj 12/12/2025
Together with deleting my Facebook and Twitter accounts, this removed a lot of pressure to conform to their unclear policies. Especially around 2019-21, it was completely unclear how to escape their digital guillotine which seemed to hit various people randomly.
The deliverability problem still stands, though. You cannot be completely independent nowadays. Fortunately my domain is 9 years old.
Like, isn't this a well-known thing that happens constantly no matter if you're a user or run any websites? Relying on search engine ranking algorithms is russian roulette for businesses sadly, at least unless you outbid the competition to show your own page as an advertisement when someone searches your business' name
Primary domain cannot be found via search - Bing knows about brand, LinkedIn, YouTube channel and but refuses to show search results about primary domain.
Bing search console does not give any clue, force reindexing does not help. Google search works fine.
I have a page that ranks well worldwide, but is completely missing in Canada. Not just poorly ranked, gone. It shows up #1 for keyword in the US, but won't show up with precise unique quotes in Canada.
"Google De-Indexed My Entire Bear Blog and I Don’t Know Why"
Bearblog.dev is not de-indexed from Google. I can pull up results fine.
Author's fault, Google's fault, someone else's fault.
From the post, while it is hard to completely rule out the possibility that author did something wrong, they likely did everything they could to remove the suspicion. I assume they consulted all documentation or other resources.
Someone else's fault? It is unlikely, since there isn't (obviously) another party involved here.
Which leaves us to Google's fault.
Also, I mean, if a user can't figure out what's wrong, the blame should just go to the vendor by default for poor user experience and documentation.
What's that? Google doesn't publish a phone number for their victims to do that? They just victimize and hide?
Okay then google, here's your chance: please reply to this-here post of mine, with a plausible explanation that convincingly exonerates you in light of the evidence against you.
I'll check back in a few hours to see whether google has done so. Until they do, we can continue blaming them.
We have a consultant for the topic but I am not sure how much of that conversation I could share publicly so I will refrain myself of doing so.
But I think I can say that it is not only about data structure or quality. The changes in methodology applied by Google in September might be playing a stronger role than what people initially thought