Difference between revisions of "RainDog's Second Rant"
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Because the bad news is that the home page of my [http://conviviality.ouvaton.org Convivial Tools Encyclopedia] site, which had finally been crawled and listed by Googlebot (far down of course), has already entirely disappeared from Google. | Because the bad news is that the home page of my [http://conviviality.ouvaton.org Convivial Tools Encyclopedia] site, which had finally been crawled and listed by Googlebot (far down of course), has already entirely disappeared from Google. | ||
| − | I put an enormous amount of work into installing and configuring that site, and then into writing encyclopedia articles on the subject of [[Convivial Tools]]. After months of effort, only the first page of the site had been Googled. There was nothing | + | I put an enormous amount of work into installing and configuring that site, and then into writing encyclopedia articles on the subject of [[Convivial Tools]]. After months of effort, only the first page of the site had been Googled. There was nothing on that frigging first page, it was just an entry point. Nobody read any of my articles, because nobody other than a few close friends and relatives knew any of them were there. (Even the friends and relatives were lukewarm about it, but what do they know?) Nobody else ever looked at that miserable first page - and now even it is gone. |
There's an explanation (there's always an explanation). The crawler looks to see if any changes have been made since it came the last time. If there aren't, it classes the site as inactive. But then why do some inactive sites hang on forever? | There's an explanation (there's always an explanation). The crawler looks to see if any changes have been made since it came the last time. If there aren't, it classes the site as inactive. But then why do some inactive sites hang on forever? | ||
