Help Peter and Bob Greenberger get their Google listings back

Posted By: Glenn HaumanPosted On:

Due to unknown wackiness, the websites for Peter David and Bob Greenberger seem to have been delisted from Google. We’re working on resolving it, and one of the best things we can do is to ask people to provide links to their sites so that Google knows they exist. So we’re asking for your help.

If you have a web site, or a blog, or anything else like that, you can help by creating links yourself. The main link for Peter is http://www.peterdavid.net, and Bob’s is http://www.bobgreenberger.com. Even better, if you go deeper into the sites and come up with a link to a particular article you like, that will help even more.

Thanks for your help, we appreciate it.

32 comments on “Help Peter and Bob Greenberger get their Google listings back”

  1. One thing I’ve noticed recently is that blog posts from the site’s RSS feed that I view on Google Reader are being redirected to http://75.126.28.154/ when I click on them. If something is up with the DNS entries for the site, that might explain why the sites are not showing on search engines any more.

      1. Sorry Glenn, that feed gives me the same redirect. In fact, I’m pretty sure I had that URL all along. Something very wonky is up with the DNS and the peterdavid.net domain, I think.

    2. I’m getting the RSS redirect as well, which is annoying but could be indicating a larger problem.

      Fixing the RSS feed would be a great help. 🙂

      2. Sorry, I’m not the writer you’re looking for.

        He’s -son, while I’m -sen.

        This isn’t the first time someone’s made the mistake, considering the comic sites I visit. 😉

  2. It would help me out if you would talk about the Toronto Blue Jays since that’s what my site is about, but I’ll look thru and find a post I could link to.

  5. I’m curious why Bob’s site isn’t listed on the sidebar like it used to be. It used to be there along with Kathleen and Glenn’s sites. But neither there nor under the Friends of PAD.

    1. Bob’s site is being added to the ComicMix widget in the upper right shortly; and I didn’t want to have both. But he should probably be added to the friends list; that was a boo-boo.

  7. This happened to the webcomic Theater Hopper just this past week. Something about invisible spam links getting spliced into his footers. He cleared them out and after a couple of days he was relisted.

  8. As a test of what came up when I Googled (have to use a cap or you help drive the term towards the generic) Peter David (ditto), I looked at his wiki page.

    It has 180 footnotes or notations.

    HARLAN ELLISON’s has 25.

    Some facts have as many as six separate references.

    I was soooo tempted to add something like “He is human, and has two legs”, followed by a “citation needed” tag.

  9. I kind of assumed me beign unable to get to PAD blog via malibulist had something to do with someone on the Scan crowd hacking it somehow, since that started two days after the post about it. I dont know you, but I was redirected to an italian site…

    I had my computer at work formated and lost all my links there, so I googled PAD this week and couldnt find the blog, yet typing the url by hand it is still there. I didnt connect the two things until now… is PAD suffering an online attack? If it is true, I know its a nuisance but…

    …how cool is that?

    1. Italian website? Hmm. First I’ve heard of that– that could explain a lot. You didn’t save the URL it sent you to, by chance?

      1. Nope, sorry. But it was something like yahoo or gogle dot it, so I assumed than rather than an attempt to redirect traffic for profit it was a spiteful attack

      2. Current top listing on google for peterdavid.net:

        PeterDavid.net
        PeterDavid.net,home of peter david, writer of stuff,SCANS DAILY,Soooo…electing Barack Obama was an act of cowardice?,The Oscars–We’re now live.
        inezha.com/p/9192760 – 22k – Cached – Similar pages –

  10. I’ve noticed over the past few weeks that something is up with Google. Some of their highest placed links go to advertising. I think someone is gaming the system.

  11. It looks like the HTTP headers being sent when accessing http://peterdavid.net includes a 301 Moved Permanently as a response… which if I remember correctly is a kiss of death as far as Google page rankings go. It might be better to more quietly/gracefully rewrite the incoming peterdavid.net as http://www.peterdavid.net instead of sending the 301.

    A good way to check headers is using ‘curl -I http://example.com‘

    A quick check of the url’s available for PAD’s site is:
    curl -I http://peterdavid.net
    HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently

    curl -I http://www.peterdavid.net
    HTTP/1.1 200 OK

    curl -I http://padwp.malibulist.com/xmlrpc.php
    HTTP/1.1 200 OK

    Also other thoughts…. Do you submit an XML Sitemap to Google? Somebody also mentioned Google’s Webmaster Tools which really does help to use, it’s a good way to get feedback and inspection on Google’s crawling of your site.

    Glenn as the admin/webmaster I assume you can see my email address on this reply. If you want, send me an e-mail about the server setup, etc. and I’ll try to help to the best of my abilities.

  12. Found the problem. I get a “500 Internal Server Error” if I try to visit either peterdavid.net or bobgreenberger.com disguised as the Googlebot. I set my useragent to: “Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)”

    So, Google can’t view the web sites and that’s why it’s not in the listing.

    2. Yep, looks like that was it– something was changing our .htaccess and blocking access to all bots. It’s been dealt with. Now we just have to wait for a reindex.

      1. Looks like it’s coming back into Google.
        A search for “site:peterdavid.net” shows 6 pages, 5 which were updated within the past day.

  14. Looks like I can once again click my iGoogle link to visit here without getting the generic placeholder screen. So as far as I’m concerned the problem is solved.
    .
    I knew it would get straightened out eventually, but THANKS for all the effort. It’s so much nicer being able to follow things like I always used to in iGoogle, clicking on through to here only when I want or need to for some reason (like, say, to leave a comment).

  15. My problem was w/my bookmark reading http://www.peterdavid.net/index.html When I entered just the .net name (no index.html) I got through (& this was after several days) I noticed it’s now index.php. If your links go to the web SITE & not the HOME PAGE I figure this would fix most of the problems. I had a similar problem several weeks ago w/my bookmark not working & the page formatting had changed.

    I would suggest Peter that next time you give us a heads-up the next time you or your webmaster change your formatting as you lose readership until they figure out what went wrong.

  16. Not for nothing, but might it have anything to do with the RSS feed? I didn’t even know the site had been redesigned and the RSS feed had changed until it suddenly occurred to me I hadn’t read anything from this blog’s feed in about a month! (My company’s server blocks most blogs, so I can only read Peter, Kath, etc. via their RSS feeds.)

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