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Post by potet on Oct 24, 2020 23:25:14 GMT
Before the change, entering the title of a book of mine in the Google search engine, yielded plenty of results including the link to the Lulu library, that came generally first, and of course Amazon, etc. plus the link to the excerpt in Google books. I have just tested it for my Tagalog Borrowings and Cognates. The Lulu link is nowhere to be seen! The picture below only shows the beginning of the list. Have some of your printed books disappeared from the Google data bank?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 25, 2020 14:25:45 GMT
Tagalog Borrowings and Cognates is definitely still on Google, just add the word 'Lulu' to the search and you'll see it and the Amazon link. There's nothing in Lulu's Robots.txt file to stop any particular pages being indexed by a Googlebot (though it does bar some lesser known Crawlers) so the page Page Ranking of this book's purchase URLs has nothing to do with Lulu, it's all down to Google I'm afraid. Then again is it any surprise that Google.com hits come up first on Google itself
BTW on Bing the Lulu and Amazon links come up in the first 6 hits.
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Post by potet on Oct 25, 2020 22:21:15 GMT
Tagalog Borrowings and Cognates is definitely still on Google, just add the word 'Lulu' to the search and you'll see it and the Amazon link. There's nothing in Lulu's Robots.txt file to stop any particular pages being indexed by a Googlebot (though it does bar some lesser known Crawlers) so the page Page Ranking of this book's purchase URLs has nothing to do with Lulu, it's all down to Google I'm afraid. Then again is it any surprise that Google.com hits come up first on Google itself
BTW on Bing the Lulu and Amazon links come up in the first 6 hits.
Yes, you are right. Thanks a lot.
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