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I'm sure it's just automatic. Their sw thinks HN is dead because it stops giving their crawlers pages after a while.
by pg 13y ago
I'm sure it's just automatic. Their sw thinks HN is dead because it stops giving their crawlers pages after a while.
- lnanek2 13y agoAh, that would makes sense. Happens to me all the time when I leave HN pages open for a while then try to use them later. I imagine the bots try to follow links they picked up earlier a long time later as well at times. Kind of funny a bad session system on a site can kill your search rankings, though. It would be fatal for sites that live off Google traffic, and tough for people using off the shelf software to deal with.
- jayjay1010 13y agoIt's NEVER been an issue before this time with consistent top results for years and this suggests otherwise https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=site:news.ycombinator.com&start=220&client=safari&sa=N&hl=en-gb&nomo=1&biw=320&bih=416 https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=site:news.ycombinator.com&... Btw this is showing the pages indexed for the site HN. That its not showing in the results now for your brand WILL have devastating results on your traffic directly from Google. Though you might not care?
- jayjay1010 13y agoSpecifically your no longer ranking for your main brand! That's nothing to do with your long tail search terms.
- tptacek 13y agoWhoah, you're right! If you search for [Hacker News], you get a bunch of junk results now. That's so cool!