No, he isn't really. He'd probably be too old for that by now.
I do nonetheless ask for help from readers who Know About Computers.
About ten days ago, I noticed that reader figures for this blog had unexpectedly declined by about 66%. I also noticed that my own RSS feed for the blog doesn't appear to update in a timely fashion.
I went to Google Search Console to investigate, and discovered that a large number of the blog's pages are not currently indexed on Google, and that most of these are not indexed because of reason='Alternative page with proper canonical tag', and others because of reason='blocked by robots.txt'. I wondered if this might be something to do with it. But perhaps it is not.
Anyway, I expect this is just a glitch that can be somehow fixed. If you are reading this and have insights, however, I would appreciate your wisdom and guidance.
Alternatively, you may comment to post praise, abuse, special requests, suggestions or recommendations of any kind whatsoever, in respect of anything.
I unfortunately don't have specific help but I had a similar problem with my (slightly) older blog. I had issues where the indexing would look for the mobile version of the page but blogger had declared the non-mobile version the canonical one. There might be some way to tweak it so that it doesn't serve up the ?m=1 or whatever it is version of the page when something is identified as "mobile" since a lot of themes are naturally responsive anyhow.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure there are others with better understanding of this than I but there are settings in blogger that would affect this such as "Visible to search engines" under Privacy, everything under Crawlers and indexing, and changing your meta tags.
ReplyDeletefwiw rss feed is updating timely for me (in feedly at least). The alt page/canonical tag usually means there are 2 pages with the same content and Google only indexes one. The comment about the mobile version is def one way that could come about. Theoretically the canonical one should still be getting indexed so you aren't really losing any pages in search results. Your robots.txt file https://monstersandmanuals.blogspot.com/robots.txt is not showing anything blocked except the search page, so not clear why that would block any pages, but may depend on what the page is.
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