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Ran Out of Google Juice…

Published February 6th, 2008 in Tech & VC

Update: Turns out I’m no longer listed in any Google SERPs, not just ‘Andrew Parker.’ My site was hacked (yet again) and contained a TON of links to porn sites which were made invisible with a CSS trick. I upgraded my WordPress install to the latest version and removed all the offensive crap, but I’m sure it will be a long time because I get back into Google’s SERPs. If anyone has any advice for expediting this process, let me know.

Original Post: For some reason Google removed this blog from the SERP for “Andrew Parker”. I used to rank #1 on the SERP when people searched my name. Now, I’m nowhere to be found.

I’m not sure what happened… anyone know of any changes to The_Algorithm(TM) that would cause me to get dropped? I still get plenty of traffic from Google on other search terms, and I’m definitely indexed. There doesn’t appear to be anything fishy (no warnings) according to Google’s webmaster tools.

I’m stumped.

6 Responses to “Ran Out of Google Juice…”  

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  1. 1 Charlie Feb 7th, 2008 at 7:44 pm

    Typepad: No fun plugins, but never been hacked either.

  2. 2 Brendan Feb 7th, 2008 at 9:18 pm

    I get you as the 3rd result on Google right now. Am I missing something?

  3. 3 Andrew Parker Feb 8th, 2008 at 7:48 am

    That 3rd result is my root domain: http://www.andrewparker.net. My blog domain: blog.andrewparker.net used to be #1. Now none of my blog posts are anywhere to be found (unless you do a site:blog.andrewparker.net search).

  4. 4 Shurtleff Feb 11th, 2008 at 12:17 pm

    Andrew,
    Hope all is well. Which upgrade did you have to do. I am about to start the process on my three sites… you motivated me to become less lazy… thx

  5. 5 Pete Feb 15th, 2008 at 8:38 am

    Looks like you’re listed again…

  6. 6 Andrew Parker Feb 15th, 2008 at 9:30 am

    Yup, I got my mojo back :)

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