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<blockquote data-quote="RobGMN" data-source="post: 8879171" data-attributes="member: 683408">With automation being what it is, and roughly 200,000,000 active websites out there, I&#039;d have to think that there is some breakdown in communication between this site and Google&#039;s bots.I have a friend who has a small business (one-man show) and a basic website. It&#039;s there just so he can give people an address to go to and see his work, learn about him, etc.. Hasn&#039;t updated much in years, is definitely not spending any time promoting for search engines, etc. Yet when I google his company name (without linking the works together to make the url), Google results show the site, and an index of the pages within the site.Do you think something happened that got CAF black-flagged automatically, or that someone at Google has a vendetta?I read a little about the HCU, and it seems this site (like most other forums, TBH) is pretty good at separating content by type, keeping the topics on track within the &quot;type&quot;, user interaction, providing answers to questions, etc.I&#039;m not sure why the bots would be upset about specific off-topic areas of the forum in comparison to something like Reddit, which is pretty much 1,000% off-topic once a thread gets started and people reply.Literally, you can post a picture of a mountain lion in &quot;whatanimalisthis&quot; and someone will respond to it. That response will get 200 followups that are nothing but humorous one or two word hits.I&#039;m analytical and my brain immediately goes into troubleshooting mode when I hear stuff like this. The truth is out there.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="RobGMN, post: 8879171, member: 683408"] With automation being what it is, and roughly 200,000,000 active websites out there, I'd have to think that there is some breakdown in communication between this site and Google's bots. I have a friend who has a small business (one-man show) and a basic website. It's there just so he can give people an address to go to and see his work, learn about him, etc.. Hasn't updated much in years, is definitely not spending any time promoting for search engines, etc. Yet when I google his company name (without linking the works together to make the url), Google results show the site, and an index of the pages within the site. Do you think something happened that got CAF black-flagged automatically, or that someone at Google has a vendetta? I read a little about the HCU, and it seems this site (like most other forums, TBH) is pretty good at separating content by type, keeping the topics on track within the "type", user interaction, providing answers to questions, etc. I'm not sure why the bots would be upset about specific off-topic areas of the forum in comparison to something like Reddit, which is pretty much 1,000% off-topic once a thread gets started and people reply. Literally, you can post a picture of a mountain lion in "whatanimalisthis" and someone will respond to it. That response will get 200 followups that are nothing but humorous one or two word hits. I'm analytical and my brain immediately goes into troubleshooting mode when I hear stuff like this. The truth is out there. [/QUOTE]

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