This morning I woke up and checked Google search to see if my adamrlee.org was back in their index as I had submitted a reconsideration request the day before. Turns out it was! The reason for it being unindexed eludes me, but I suspect it was a problem with my shared web server, as another domain on the same server was also unindexed. When I start getting a steady income, I'll make sure to build my own server or buy a dedicated one to avoid further frustrations of this sort. Now that I think about it, I did manually adjust the crawl rate on my website up a notch, which I have now changed. A super high frequency crawl rate probably has more of a chance of not getting the whole website in time.
The only problem with Google reconsideration is that there will be no reply email addressing why the site was not indexed. This is because the sites are physically checked by humans, and humans actually resolve these cases. The unindexing is done by machines, and if the reindexing was also done by an algorithm then quickly sending why the site went down would be feasible. I guess another reason why the reason for deindexing is not given is that blackhat SEO websites would purposely use this system to see what they can and can't get away with, so I doubt the system will change any time soon.
The Art of the Campaign
10 years ago
Google is a strange thing that I don't really understand. The way they do things sometimes seems very odd to me.
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