SayUncle News
SayUncle: Scrubbed by Google (which explains the decline in traffic. Anyone know how to fix that?)
SayUncle: Banned in China by Google. ETA: probably due to the aforementioned scrubbing.
Update: Regarding point one, it’s not that I’m a traffic whore or anything but the extra cash from the ads is nice, being unemployed and all. Also, I’ve not sold many blog ads lately either due to reduced traffic. That and it’s just darn weird.
Update 2: It’s not all bad as my referral logs aren’t blurred by Google searches. It gives me a better idea where readers come from.
February 1st, 2006 at 3:35 pm
Not sure why you’re not at the top of the Google search results for “sayuncle” but your site is still in their database. try this search.
February 1st, 2006 at 3:35 pm
Is there anyone else you can get ads from?
(I’m not up on the advertisement stuff.)
Can you join PJM?
A link or two from Insty will help your traffic.
You still don’t have a job?
Are you trying? (I’m not trying to be sarcastic – perhaps you are a Stay at Home Dad for a reason I’m unaware of?)
Do you have your resume online?
If you are trying to find something computer / web related, I know people. Perhaps something you can do from home?
February 1st, 2006 at 4:50 pm
I looked at your referrals in Sitemeter, and you’re still getting some Google traffic.
I checked your robots.txt file and it does tell Google’s image spider to go away, so maybe that hurt their little robot feelings. 🙂
February 1st, 2006 at 6:14 pm
Just remove these two lines:
User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Disallow: /
from robots.txt. It should be at the root level of your Web server directory. You’d also need to remove this line:
Disallow: /images/
That’s assuming that you want your images to be spidered. You may not, but it might be worth trying as an experiment to see if it affects your regular Google search engine traffic.
February 2nd, 2006 at 11:27 am
also make sure you site can be found through MSN and Yahoo.
If the three majors pick up your site, i belive (though i cannot confrim this) that they will feed off of each other and smaller seach engines will feed off of the three major ones.
April 29th, 2006 at 11:56 pm
[…] I mentioned before how this site was scrubbed by Google. No big deal really in terms of readership but it has affected my ad revenue. It seems that I am not the only gun blogger scrubbed by them. […]