Everyone in the SEO community is talking about John Mueller's website no longer showing up in Google search results. It appears to have been de-indexed and permanently removed from Google. The question is why? John Mueller is one of the most famous Google search spokespeople on the internet, so his site johnmu.com, which is full of geeky topics, is his Google Not showing up in search results is a strange thing for SEO…
When I run the site command, [site:johnmu.com] – No results displayed:
Of course, the first thing an SEO will look at is johnmu.com/robots.txt. Have fun finding out. Next, look for other meta tags that might prevent indexing.
Like many of the other sites I received last week, I can't access John's Google Search Console to see if there was any manual action, but I doubt his site was hit with any manual action. yeah…
I discovered this in the following way.
.@JohnMu FYI, your website has been completely de-indexed by Google. Looks like Google has gone crazy 😱
H/T @seb_skowron & @ziptiedev pic.twitter.com/RGq6GodPsG
— Tomek Rudzki (@TomekRudzki) March 13, 2024
Here's how John is reacting to this information so far.
@googlesearchc help me
— John (@JohnMu) March 13, 2024
How to double the traffic to your site in 5 easy steps!
— John (@JohnMu) March 13, 2024
I will never forget to eat (lol) 🙂
— John (@JohnMu) March 13, 2024
Please tell me what you found.
— John (@JohnMu) March 13, 2024
It's raining on Googlebot. What does that mean?
— John (@JohnMu) March 13, 2024
You may have noticed something – see what I found: pic.twitter.com/Q6Ej0A1O7Z
— John (@JohnMu) March 13, 2024
This is Fabrice Canel from the Bing team – so funny:
🙏
— John (@JohnMu) March 13, 2024
What do you think is happening? John looks like he's enjoying this…
Please get along well.
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