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Googlebot does not index my Sitemap

November 18th, 2008

I posted yesterday how some of my pages have disappeared from Googles index. I also mentioned how I tried to fix this issue (re-submitting sitemap, request broken links to be removed). Now, one day later the situation is as such:

Total URLs in Sitemap 20
Indexed URLs in Sitemap 0

This data from the Google Webmaster Tool actually means that currently not a single of my blog entries is listed in Google. And this in return explains one thing: why currently my site traffic is almost down to ZERO! I think this shows very impressively how dependet website and blog owners are of Google. If you’re not listed in the search engine nobody will find you! Of course this is especially true in the beginning of starting a blog where you don’t have any subscribers, other sites that link to your blog etc.

Now as you might imagine this situation is a little bit frustrating for me. But right now there is actually nothing I can do about it! The requests for content removal (all the broken links) is still pending, I double checked my robots.txt and meta information - all this seems to be correct. So right now the only thing I can do is to wait… I will keep you informed on how things evolve!

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