07 February 2024, 14:38 | #1 |
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Google search results gone
Hey there,
I noticed all EAB google search results are gone, probably after the server move. Any chance you could help google get them back? EAB was the top provider of amiga related search results, would be a shame to loose that. I see your robots.txt doesn't intentionally limit results. (Not sure if the allow: feature works reliably though? I though it would be enough to just not have * disallowed but I'm not up to date on SEO.) |
07 February 2024, 14:42 | #2 |
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Google indexes by URL. A server move will not have any effect on that, as Google won't even notice that.
I have no issue getting results from EAB in Google. Only issue that there is for some time now: the website name is shown as "Hall Of Light". What search term(s) did you try? |
07 February 2024, 15:07 | #3 |
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i just think things shifted around and now you get reddit results on top
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07 February 2024, 15:24 | #4 |
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Google changed the way their searches work. Before it would match text you enter pretty much 1:1, so if a thread title here on EAB matched your search it would be listed pretty high. Now it doesn't work like that anymore. It might be to combat 'SEO' spam in webpages, but it surely also pushed popular websites way higher and useful niche ones to the bottom of the search results.
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07 February 2024, 15:26 | #5 |
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Btw, you can use this search term:
* site:eab.abime.net to get what is currently indexed. I get 845 entries, which seems to be on the low side. But it may filter on my location, prefs and whatnot.. |
07 February 2024, 16:22 | #6 |
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There are several posts I once found through Google which are no longer in the 'keyword site:eab.abime.net' results. I recall they disappeared a year ago or so.
Google's index of EAB is quite sparse now so I have to use vBulletin's crappy search feature. |
07 February 2024, 20:02 | #7 |
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I've been using google to find EAB threads for more than 10 years and while I do still find a few threads, there has been an significant (feels like 99%) reduction lately.
Couple of example searches + hits: "amiga site:eab.abime.net": Google: 7900. Bing: 980 000 "a2386sx site:eab.abime.net": Google: 0. Bing: 517 Dersammler: I'd be very surprised if google doesn't notice a server move even though it primarily uses URL's. I don't know if it's related, but this did happen at least more or less at the same time as the server move. Last edited by fgh; 07 February 2024 at 20:12. |
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It does care for the IP for SMTP, however. But that's a different case. |
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07 February 2024, 20:43 | #9 |
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Ok, that could be. In this case the server was changed, so possibly the web server software as well, so I just assumed if google bothered to have ~1 million entries stored for a site, it might store a string or three of data about the server as well
Edit: But again: It was mainly that these two events possibly happened at the same time that made me think of the connection. Perhaps robots.txt was changed, and * was disallowed by mistake, but then allowed again. (it is allowed now). Not sure if google would be that quick to purge the entries though? Perhaps it will rebuild over time, I don't know. |
20 February 2024, 03:30 | #10 |
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The server move is not yet done, so I change nothing on my side.
I don't know why google is less indexing EAB than before but it sucks now: request = "amiga site:eab.abime.net" google.com = 1300 results bing = 983000 results request = "amiga site:amiga.abime.net" google.com = 11500 results bing = 48000 results Last edited by RCK; 20 February 2024 at 04:59. |
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20 February 2024, 04:06 | #12 |
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Okay so I rolled back robots.txt to one empty file as before
Let's hope it will help us to have much more result on google. Last edited by RCK; 20 February 2024 at 05:52. |
20 February 2024, 05:53 | #13 |
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I also asked to the Google Search Console to reindex EAB.
And yes, it confirmed EAB has vanished from his index. |
20 February 2024, 08:35 | #14 |
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google now is not the best search engine anymore
it was long time ago but now it sucks I changed the default search engine on all my browsers around 1 year ago is better to use yahoo or bing or duckduckgo, I don't know exactly which one is better now, but those are better than google for sure |
20 February 2024, 08:44 | #15 |
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Just saw this article today: https://housefresh.com/david-vs-digital-goliaths/
It's not abime, it's Google. |
20 February 2024, 13:38 | #16 |
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Glad it's not just me that noticed this, I thought I was going crazy.
While setting up an amiga A600, I went looking for help on google, I expected lots of Amiga.org and EAB posts, but got almost nothing. |
20 February 2024, 13:56 | #17 |
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Fear not khph_re, Quack-Fu to the rescue.
https://is.gd/b2J9gt |
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