Traditional boerewors – Index pages appear to getting indexed rather than regional lists
Scotland (not indexed) – Removed menu links in the footer (no change 7/5). No Index 7/5
Northern Ireland (indexed) – Removed menu links in the footer and no indexed ‘Recommendations’ (no change 7/5)
South East England (indexed) – Removed menu links in the footer and no indexed ‘Recommendations’ (no change 7/5) Hampshire indexed and has a footer link to SE but so does West Sussex which is not indexed. No index South East England 7/5
East England (indexed 7/5) – Links in place x1 post indexed x2 adjacent posts de-indexed (Previous and Next links? No pagination for canonical pages swoitched off?) Otherwise no clue
Indexing is a cat and mouse game.
Google is continually changing it’s algorithim to try and stay away one step ahead of the multitude of keyboard fanatics that are doing whatever they can to get into the top rankings. Originally Google came up with the idea of Page Rank. This to try and keep them happy. To give them something to obsess about which had nothing to do with anything.
However as the noise reached fever pitch Google had no option other than to quietly drop it. The grift became an embarassment and the metric became an ethical hadache for a corporation that started with the lofty ideal of ‘do no evil.
Nothing has changed however. Such is the mass appeal for disinformation and the need to mask the simplicity of what is a tool that should be accessable to all.
The latest hurdle that has been introduced is a duplicate content filter and god only knows how the brilliant minds at Google have figured this one out. Post gets indexed one month and de-indexed the next. Frustrating……,..