Google De-Indexed My Entire Bear Blog and I Don鈥檛 Know Why 07 Nov, 2025 Preamble: The whole affair is Google鈥檚 fault and not Bear Blog鈥檚. Huge thanks to Herman鈥擝ear Blog鈥檚 founder and dev鈥攆or his patience and help. A month after I started my first Bear blog at blog.james-zhan.com, my blog was entirely de-indexed by Google for no apparent reason: I have since migrated to journal.james-zhan.com (you are on it right now) and redirected all links from blog.james-zhan.com accordingly, but to this day, I don鈥檛 understand what happened, and so I鈥檓 putting this post out there to see if perhaps anyone could shed some light鈥攜ou are welcome to email me or leave a comment at the bottom of the post. Let me backtrack and show you how it all went down. Table of Contents At first, all was well Where it started to go wrong Was that a coincidence or the cause of the issue? It got worse Extensive troubleshooting Suspect #1: Something鈥檚 up with the domain Suspect #2: Quality of blog content Suspect #3: Lack of internal linking Other suspects, eliminated with Herman鈥檚 help (thank you Herman!) My blog was properly indexed by other search engines What I ended up doing At first, all was wellMy blog went live on Oct 4 and I published a lengthy, well-research opinion piece commenting on a recent event. Because of that, I wanted the article to show up on Google ASAP so that when people searched about the event, maybe my article would come up. I knew that it could take a while for Google to naturally crawl and index a new site, so to accelerate the process, I went on Google Search Console (GSC), submitted the sitemap and requested indexing on my article. And it worked鈥攖he next day, my blog and articles were indexed and showed up on Google if you put in the right search terms. In GSC, you can even see that I was getting some impressions and clicks at the time from the exact topic that my opinion piece was about. Great! From then on, every time I published a new post, I would go to GSC and reque...
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