Daily affirmations of a word mercenary
I accidently deleted myself from Google’s search index. I meant to just get my sites out of the IMAGES side of Google (has anyone else noticed how infrequently images are updated? Google Images is a wasteland of broken links), but it looks like I accidently completely removed ALL my domains from Google’s main search index.
This is a problem for the people who come here every day by searching Google for “ariel meadow.” (Side note: who are you people? Why don’t just just type in my URL?) This is also a slight problem for my portfolio, as it was ranked #2 in the search for “Seattle copywriter,” which was really nice. I’m not sure if I ever got jobs from Google searches, but the exposure certainly didn’t hurt.
I talked to Google’s customer support about the issue (real people reponded to my emails! impressive!), and I should be reindexed at some point, but whups. What a geek error.
Hey there. I'm Ariel Meadow Stallings, a native Seattleite who's written my way up and down the Left Coast. Electrolicious is where I post daily randomata, but I also write for a living. My first book, Offbeat Bride, is in bookstores now.
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Jason
March 17th, 2004 at 1:10 pm
Does your current robots.txt reflect what Google told you to do? (ie Does “User-agent: Googlebot-Image Disallow: /” do the trick?) I wonder because the Google webmaster FAQ offers different advice….
Ariel
March 17th, 2004 at 1:46 pm
My robots.txt uses the technique that Google recommends (as you showed it), but I’ll have to take a look at this FAQ.
leblanc
March 18th, 2004 at 10:20 am
i guess i’m not as big of a geek as you are because i have no idea what robot.txt is.
jess
March 18th, 2004 at 7:28 pm
i think you’ll get your seattle copywriter placement back based on links to your site that use those words as the http description…