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Wednesday, April 5, 2023

Update: Google-Blogger "hiding" posts

 I have been very busy with life the past month or so, meaning I wasn't able to post anything new. As I was looking up my powerful 2 Corinthians 5:21 article to share with someone, I noticed it was missing. It turns out the Google/Blogger automatic scanners had flagged some of my posts as violating community guidelines, and reverted them back to Drafts. This is obviously a mistake and so I requested them to be reviewed, but it is sad I was not made aware of this by email or a notification. It not only caused some of my favorite articles to be hidden, it could also have lead to hiding my blog from searches. I think they will be put back up, but just be aware in case your own blog loses posts. It's a good idea to back up everything, which can be hard if you have a lot to post about.

2 comments:

credulo said...

As a suggestion: have you considered to use a source code hosting service as Sourceforge or Github?
The drawback would possibly learn to use a DVCS such as git. However TortoiseGit can provide a friendlier interface to it.

Colin Causey said...

I'm still struggling to get my blog to consistently show up in Google search results at all. Bing doesn't have a problem, but Google (who obviously owns Blogger) does. Go figure :-)