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.
ReplyDeleteThanks! Will try it.
DeleteI'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.
ReplyDeleteMy settings seem ok... I'll have a think about tags.
Deletefwiw 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.
ReplyDeleteThanks - I think it depends what the page is, as there are dozens blocked according to Google Search Console.
DeleteI figured Blogspot has been half dead for about 15 years so it could be that. But also, the big iron social media wants RSS dead so you'll just post stuff in their little walled gardens, to help them grow their billions. It's interesting that Blogspot doesn't let me sign in with my own google profile to sign this. Anyway... I love the new edition of Yuin Suin, and I still see your feed I think
ReplyDeleteHalf dead... yes. I have thought long and hard about making the switch to substack.
DeleteI am a complete noob when it comes to blogging, but please don't change Monsters and Manuals to whatever a lot of the other blogs are using (Geo-Cities? Google? whatever?). I appreciate that this blog allows for anonymous comments and doesn't force you to have to log in with a Google blog (or whatever) to post.
DeleteThe Heretic
Wtf is that title? I think someone's not taking his meds.
ReplyDeleteIt’s called ‘a joke’.
DeleteOr, as the ancients called, a "jest". Strange times, I guess.
Deletejust commenting here to say I love the blog showing up in my rss feed and i thought the joke was funny - top contender for a clickbait of the year.
DeleteHmm, nothing wrong here. Bots from Hong Kong and Malaysia, not to mention the occasional Russians, keep visiting my blog regularly.
ReplyDeleteI'm not complaining - they make the figures look much better!
DeleteHuh. That's odd. I just checked my stats, and they're pretty steady (and I'm sure I get just as much bot interference as you). Maybe it's a glitch that will get sorted out?
ReplyDeleteLurking.
ReplyDeleteI never figured out RSS feeds...I just occasionally go through my bookmarks bar of 28 blogs and open them all up and see if there's anything new, lol
ReplyDeleteI mean... I know nothing about it. But it's been apparent for quite a while that Google's indexing is much less comprehensive than it was. I always assumed it was a policy choice.
ReplyDeleteI think they want to move people more towards AI and ads.
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