In March I accidently deleted myself from Google’s search index. Despite contacting Google help, despite rewriting my robots.txt files, despite Googlebots wandering past my site every couple of days, my website appears somewhat permanently locked out of Google’s index.

Advantages:
1. No more awful searches showing up in my referral logs.
2. No more potential employers searching for me and my blog coming up first.

Disadvantages:
1. My resume disappeared off Google, too. That means searching for “Seattle copywriter” no longer leads people to my portfolio. That sucks.
2. No more long-lost random old friends finding me. That sucks too.

I’m not sure what else I can do to get relisted. I’ve submitted my site, and according to Google support, my robots.txt file is fine. I guess I just wait. I sort of don’t like being invisible, though.