Google No Longer Showing One of My Steemit Posts
I often search for "steemit lukestokes losing eternity" whenever I want to get the URL for this post and send it to someone. Today, I was surprised to notice it didn't show up in the search results.
Like, it didn't show up at all.
I scrolled through pages and pages of results, but it's not there.
Duckduckgo, however sees it just fine as the top result:
You may notice, it also lists the version of that blog post which I originally wrote on my old lukestokes.info blog (which I've recently converted to a consulting site). I think Google may have marked the Steemit version as a duplicate or maybe even as a plagiarized version and removed it from the search results. That got me thinking about my other blog posts which also exist on Steem:
If those sound interesting to you, feel free to check them out:
- https://steemit.com/philosophy/@lukestokes/determining-determinism
- https://steemit.com/artificial-intelligence/@lukestokes/the-morality-of-artificial-intelligence
- https://steemit.com/philosophy/@lukestokes/where-does-your-morality-come-from
- https://steemit.com/religion/@lukestokes/losing-eternity
In an attempt to fix the problem, I edited all those posts on Wordpress and added this to the top:
<strong><em>The home for this post (and the rest of <a href="https://steemit.com/@lukestokes">my blog</a>) is now <a href="https://steemit.com/philosophy/@lukestokes/where-does-your-morality-come-from">on the Steem blockchain</a>.</em></strong>
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Which shows up like this:
I also noticed one of the top results is my Steem introduce yourself post which was still linking to my old lukestokes.info version. I went ahead and edited that old post to update the link:
You do know there's no longer a 7-day restriction on editing old posts, right?
If you have an old blog or you write for other publications and you want your Steem blog posts to come up in search results, you might want to consider linking to your Steem posts from your blog. I'm hoping this will help Google reindex these pages and include my post back in its search results.
This got me thinking... if search engines start silently removing pages from results like this, will we have to go back to maintaining our own indexes of pages, like the early Internet? If we can't trust search engines for results, will things come full circle back to online directories?
I have also noticed Steem posts do not do well on Google. Perhaps because there is a lot of duplicate content / plagiarism, steemit.com gets downranked as an entire domain.
However, in your specific case, I think something else may be occurring. It is not unusual for a search engine to pick a single page to return for the same content. Therefore, if your blog and Steem contain the same post, it is possible Google chose your blog as the canonical version.
Can you edit the HTML
<head>for your blog posts? The best way to tell Google which version is canonical is to specify this way:This should be more effective than linking to the Steem version from your blog, but that is good for other reasons as well.
Yeah, I'm familiar with canonical link tags, but never bothered with figuring it out on my old blog. Thanks for adding that note here though!
Not really surprising I guess. But a valid point regarding keeping our own tracking. This was one of the reasons I am currently building a website for our PowerHouse Creatives members so they can all be featured and have their own "collection"of their work in one easy to locate space... obviously for themselves and for referring to other members work for whatever reasons as well as to promote us as a collective.
So I guess I should get that sorted. Haha :)
You must also know that STEEM does not edit posts.
It makes a completely new post in the most recent block.
Your old post is still there.
And since finding old steem posts is rather difficult... there really isn't a need to "edit" old posts.
I would suggest that you just rewrite it all, and post it as a new post.
I use brave regulary. BAT is a major solution.
I used Brave many times over many versions, but I would eventually run into some site or form or something that just wouldn't work right. I found myself coming back to Chrome each time.
It got much better I must say. Keep using it, especialy if Google manipulates.
I've actually had this problem with some of my ninja warrior posts that were totally exclusive to Steem... even though I wrote them specifically to top Google searches... and they don't show up at all, but they're right at the top of Bing and DuckDuckGo.
Can't wait until Presearch has it's own full search engine.
Same result here. Google is up to something not good.
Many would see this position with Google as very gullible. If you looked into what Google and a couple other silicone oligarchs have invested billions in you may realize that soon, irrespective of the search engine you use, will be able to control the content you see.
I had the same issue, some post show up in search result others not ...
After some research I discovered that crypto related / political / controversial post mostly not show up in result ...
Stop using google search.
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I did not noticed it though in my post or maybe because i did not always search for my past post on google like that.
Like you said, maybe the google may have thougjt it is spammy or plagraized