Re:Why Did ProtonMail Vanish from Google Search Results? (2016)
by tobltobs on Thursday November 30, 2017 @04:11AM
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Wasn't this at the same time when ProtonMail migrated their site from a .ch to a .com? I would be thankful if I would be able to get such a special treatment from Google for a borked migration. For most of us it is a death sentence when we bork a migration, protonmail gets help and then they whine about it.
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Re:Why Did ProtonMail Vanish from Google Search Results? (2016)
by mjw1007 on Thursday November 30, 2017 @02:04PM
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That doesn't really fit the way web-crawler-based search engines work.
If the search engine is working properly then if the new site looks the same to users it ought to look the same to the search engine. If Google's crawler didn't find the new site at all then they need a better crawler.
Maybe this was incompetence rather than malice on Google's part, but it was one of the two.
(An exception would be if you migrate a site and mess up your robots.txt or similar to forbid the search engine doing its job. But evidently that didn't happen here because the fix was at Google's end.)
Re:Why Did ProtonMail Vanish from Google Search Results? (2016)
by spuz on Thursday November 30, 2017 @07:38AM
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What do you mean by borked migration? What could Proton mail have done better?
Re:Why Did ProtonMail Vanish from Google Search Results? (2016)
by GregMartinez on Thursday November 30, 2017 @09:24AM
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Without knowing their migration strategy it is hard to say.
A few things I notice that get borked often with migrations are not handling redirects & internal links properly, not updating sitemaps & canonical tags, and not checking Google Search Console & robots.txt