[squeak-dev] visibility of our site

Herbert König herbertkoenig at gmx.net
Sun May 12 14:39:51 UTC 2019


Hi,

I don't use google normally but below is what I get from Google. Qwant,
ECOSIA, Bing, DuckDuckGo return very similar results. Usually I browse
in private mode so i guess nothing comes from my browser cache here.


Cheers,


Herbert


Am 12.05.2019 um 15:13 schrieb Fabio Niephaus:
> On Sat, May 11, 2019 at 12:32 AM Levente Uzonyi <leves at caesar.elte.hu> wrote:
>> On Fri, 10 May 2019, Nicolas Cellier wrote:
>>
>>> I find our https://squeak.org squeak site very good!
>>>
>>> But for loading a 5.2 image, I just googled "squeak smalltalk download", and were offered the possibility to download 3.8, 3.7 or all sorts of outdated stuff, but I didn't see our site anywhere near the top answers...
>>>
>>> Isn't there something we can do to improve that?
>> It google seems to have simply "deindexed" the site. Other search
>> engines find the content just fine, but google won't find anything from
>> the squeak.org domain even if you specify site:squeak.org. Subdomains are
>> still indexed by google.
> I didn't notice this, but it seems you are right and Google has
> removed squeak.org from their index.
>
>> Assuming no one has registered the site on google's search console[1], a
>> trusted person could try to add the site as their own (requires
>> coordination with the web/box admins team) and see if it can be added to
>> the index again.
> I have access to a Google search console for squeak.org, but I don't
> fully understand the problem yet. I've updated our sitemap to point to
> our site via HTTPS, maybe that fixes it. I will keep you posted.
>
> Fabio
>
>> Levente
>>
>> [1] https://search.google.com/search-console/about
>>
>>> Nicolas
>>>
>>>
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