Hey guys. Well, starting October 2023, Google has pretty much killed the concept of SEO for its own Blogspot (blogspot) platform. Half of my sites were thrown out of the index, or rather just hidden. Yes it still indexes blogspot sites, but at the slightest deviation (that no one knows anything about) the site is simply turned off from search.
Yes, this update hit not only blogspot, but still I think blogger was affected more than others.
During this time I also managed to find a platform, which this update did not affect at all, I did there anything I wanted, published texts from AI, put different links, in general did what I wanted and none of the 20 sites I created did not suffer.
But, when I do the same thing on blogspot, everything comes to an end.
So yes, googlers are good, they killed their own platform, and cut off part of the income, because people earned with Blogspot and Google adsense. Also some people were buying google domains for their blogs. Award them for the best shot in the foot.
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Reason for deleting pages
In general, based on everything I have seen, I can draw the following conclusion:
- A number of content creation platforms, including Blogger, have been put on the so-called “death list”.
- In such platforms low-quality content is not indexed.
- If the content is good, but there are affiliate (referral) links, or just manipulation of links to increase the rating of other pages of your site, then such pages are also removed.
- Top pages can be removed for a while, then they will come back in the search. If you correct the content, they can return faster.
The solution to the problem?
- Work harder on the blog, for its recognizability (Brand) and visibility by search bots.
- Create better content structure on the pages themselves.
- If the page does not receive traffic is already a signal for deindexing, so take traffic from other sources (social networks, youtube, e-mail subscription), or carefully put links from your top pages. Also, as an option you can use different navigation, Main Menu, plugins Similar Posts, Popular or Random Posts.
Main Blogger issue
When the page is opened from a PC its URL does not contain additional characters, but if you open it via a mobile device, then ?m=1 is added at the end of the URL
Why is this bad?
This is how duplicate pages occur, or rather they could occur if it wasn't for the canonical tag, which indicates that the page without ?m=1 should be indexed, and this is good, but there is another problem. Each site has a crawling budget, the maximum number of pages that can be indexed during one visit of a google bot.
Typically sites are scanned by a mobile bot. And there is a problem, because the mobile bot scans the page with ?m=1 and can even index it, but guided by the tag canonical it is forbidden to do so, and to scan the URL without ?m=1 it can not, because it is mobile and before it is always displayed URL with ?m=1 so it passes such pages to desktop google bot.
As a consequence, crawling takes a lot of resources because of which there are problems with the indexing of the site.
How to get more crawling budget?
The more traffic a site gets, the more crawling budget it gets.
Sites with a large number of pages also get more crawling budget. However, a large number of pages is not always a good thing, and can often harm SEO promotion.
Recommendations from the author
Do not try to change the blogspot indexing system. I tried to leave only pages for mobile bot, but it did not help, or rather from the beginning it helped, but after August, google stopped indexing mobile pages of the blogspot site.
Best Solution for Page is not indexed: Redirect error. Yesterday I bought a domain, connected it to my Blogger blog and sent some pages for indexing..... Eureka all pages got into the index.
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So don't try to change the link structure, just work on attracting traffic, or buy a domain.
