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Old 7th Jan 2020, 4:49 am   #17
Maarten
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Default Re: Where has the Thorn TV chassis guide gone?

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Some info about the problem with Google from Chris the Vrat owner here
Now that's interesting! I did wonder if it was due to some change that Google had made and it seems that it is.

If I need to go to the Vrat site, I always just type 'Vrat' into Google and it's the second in the list. Now there is no mention of it at all!
Unfortunately, I can't read the linked information. I succeeded exactly once tonight in visiting his site, after clearing cookies but that won't work now either. It seems to redirect to google.com. It might be misconfigured in one way or the other, I'll try to find out what, how and why. Possibly related to gdpr conscent? If Google crawlers get accidentaly redirected as well, it would make sense the site is dropped from the index.

EDIT: radios-tv.co.uk seems to serve me a 302 temporary redirect to google.com. I seem to remember that 302 redirects are deadly for SEO, so if the Google crawler is served that too, especially if it points to google itself, this would sufficiently explain the trouble.

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