Google not indexing my blog

Posted by John Kleijn • Monday, March 29. 2010 • Category: Personal

If you are reading this, you probably kept my old feed in your RSS reader. Using Google Webmaster Tools, I got reminded that people actually subscribed to that. Right now, you lucky (ha!) few are the only ones reading my blog, the greater Internet is being deprived of the privilege because Google is not indexing it. For example search "john kleijn closures", you'll get Eli White's blog because Serendipity created a trackback for it, instead of my own post about closures. Search simply "John Kleijn" and you'll get my company website, some other links such as my PHPFreaks.com profile, and also some other guy called John Kleijn twice my age (okay, 1.5 times -- I'm getting old).


There could be several reasons for this, most of which have to do with negligence on my part (as much as I'd like to bash Google for it). The short version: the site was inactive, links producing 404s, after that johnkleijn.nl was redirected to kleijnweb.nl (my company site), producing still 404s, and then I started blogging again but used a different domain (devenit.nl) which johnkleijn.nl redirected to. Probably, at some stage, "google" (as in its automated processes) decided I wasn't worth indexing. You can't blame them for that.

But since then the site is back up using the old domain name, 404s have been fixed using mod_rewite, and I even submitted a sitemap. Yet still, no indexing. So yesterday I submitted a "request for reconsideration", a facility more suited for borderline SERP spammers. Oh, the humiliation.. So not really, but what is damn annoying is that according to Google it can take several weeks to get a response, if at all! So what am I to do? Keep talking to myself, those few feed readers and perhaps the occasional wonderer that comes here via kleijnweb.nl?

Google really has way too much power and I'd almost stop using Chrome if it wasn't such a good browser. Really, indexing the internet is such a vital service that IMO it should be done by an independent international organization, something like ICANN.

sitemap.xml | Indexed URLs | 0

Update: seems like Google at least stopped blocking my site. According to Webmaster tools they didn't really index anything though. Patience sucks.

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  1. Mchl on 2010-04-07 22:08:

    'John Klein' folder in my Thunderbird just lit up blue and indicates there's a lot of new items in it... I guess it means things are getting back on track.

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