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		<title>What happened to my site in Google?</title>
		<link>http://www.mgamble.ca/blog/2009/11/13/what-happened-to-my-site-in-google/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Update: 10:36 PM (4 minutes after I posted this article) &#8211; This post is already in Google&#8217;s index &#8211; so what happened to all my GM posts, and where did they go?
Something interesting happened to mgamble.ca over the past 24 hours in Google search results &#8211; all references to my posts about my 2010 Equinox [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Update: 10:36 PM (4 minutes after I posted this article) &#8211; This post is <a title="Google search for &quot;mgamble google&quot;" href="http://www.google.ca/search?q=mgamble.ca+google&amp;btnG=Search&amp;hl=en&amp;client=firefox-a&amp;rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&amp;hs=nDp&amp;sa=2">already in Google&#8217;s index</a> &#8211; so what happened to all my GM posts, and where did they go?</strong></p>
<p>Something interesting happened to mgamble.ca over the past 24 hours in Google search results &#8211; all references to my posts about my 2010 Equinox have been removed, but every other page on my site is still <a title="Google results for site:mgamble.ca" href="http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&amp;client=firefox-a&amp;rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&amp;hs=CNU&amp;q=site%3Amgamble.ca&amp;btnG=Search&amp;meta=&amp;aq=f&amp;oq=">in the google index</a>.  So far only the &#8220;<a href="http://www.mgamble.ca/blog/2009/11/09/my-2010-chevy-equinox-story/">My 2010 Equinox Story</a>&#8220;, &#8220;<a href="http://www.mgamble.ca/blog/2009/11/10/gm-is-reading-my-blog/">GM Is Reading my Blog</a>&#8220;, and my &#8220;<a href="http://www.mgamble.ca/blog/2009/11/10/gm-responds-lets-hope-this-time-its-fixed-for-good/">GM Responds</a>&#8221; posts have been removed.  Now I&#8217;m not a conspiracy nut, but it&#8217;s a bit odd that only those 3 pages were removed from any Google search results, but the rest of the site remains.  Normally if Google drops search results, they drop the whole site, not specific links.</p>
<p>So I&#8217;m trying a little experiment.  I&#8217;ve updated my <a title="Sitemap for MGamble.ca" href="http://www.mgamble.ca/sitemap.xml">sitemap</a> with a link to a static copy of &#8220;<a title="My 2010 Equinox Story" href="http://mgamble.ca/blog/my_2010_equinox_story_static.html">My 2010 Equinox Story</a>&#8221; to see if it gets re-indexed by googlebot.  If it does, that implies that the other pages were somehow removed from Google.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ll post another update in the morning once Google reindexes my site and I have a chance to review the results.  All I can really say right now is that something really suspicious is going on.</p>
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