Google was hiding the site
Google was hiding the site [Edit: 05/09/2025 - I appear to still be getting search issues for the blog. Have tried getting it reindexed] I am not 100% sure what happened, but during 2024 I had the need to search my blog site for a problem I was getting. I knew I had solved and documented it on the site previously, after all, this the principle reason for writing up these posts i.e. share knowledge and maintain a library of information across employers/contracts. However, when searching I noticed that the page I was expecting simply wasn't being returned. I tried a few other browsers and had similar results (nothing). DuckDuckGo however, worked! At this point the penny dropped that somehow it was Google that was dropping my site and the other browsers were configured to use google as their search provider. To this day I don't 100% know what was causing this issue, but the steps I worked through were. 1. Set the blogger site to not allow crawlers. 2. Generate a sitemap w...