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Why does the Google index of my blog stop on Dec. 27, 2006?

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Long time readers know that we’ve had more than our fair share of mishaps with Google. In fairness to Google, the commercialization of sexuality attracts malefactors all out of proportion to the effort it takes separate the wheat from the chaff. But knowing that is cold comfort when your livelihood is on the line.

More over, this New Searchable Era ™ combined with the rise of the Complaint Driven Internet ™ have tipped the balance away from new voices, and  back towards those who seem to take delight in taking offense. I don’t expect we’ll see College Humor videos pulled off YouTube, or James Joyce re-edited for the iPhone App Store, but it’s clear that lessor known writers and filmmakers aren’t given the benefit of the doubt.

When Peggy and I started this Comstock Films thing, the internet was a leg up, a place a the little guy could mount an insurgent campaign against the status quo; a place where a good idea could go around the gatekeepers of the mainstream media and straight to the people who might appreciate it. But increasing the internet is the mainstream media,  with it’s own (mostly automated and mindless) gatekeepers and time again we are finding ourselves shut out. It’s frustrating, and even a little scary.

But because at a certain point making the films we wanted to make required that we go “all in”, we have no real choice but to soldier on. There’s simply too much invested in blood, sweat, and tears to do anything but keep fighting.

I have been wondering for some while why pages that link to my posts, or even pages that steal my post wholesale rank in Google’s search returns, while my original posts are (often) nowhere to be found. Today a clue. 

Since our return, between cleaning the house and returning correspondences that went unanswered while we were away, I’ve been Google-stalking myself. I find that seeing when, why and how people are writing about what we do is a good way to come up with PR ideas. For a reason I’ve already forgotten, I ended up running this search on Google:

blogurl:http://www.comstockfilms.com/blog/tony

Apparently the last post in Google’s index of my blog is my post from Dec. 27, 2006 “Will Google Kill Comstock Films?” That’s two years of blogging and something like 300 posts missing from Google’s index. That’s countless hours devoted to creating unique content (i.e. search-bait) that’s not helping our business.

I don’t know what the reasons for this might be. Maybe it’s another Googlebot bug. Maybe we’ve got our WordPress Update Services misconfigured. (I’ve checked and will ask Peggy to double check when she gets back from the vet.) Maybe it’s sun spots. Maybe it’s because after we broke the Googlebot bug story,  The Art & Business of Making Erotic Films became The Most Dangerous Blog on the Internet ™ . I don’t know. I do know is the timeline is uncanny, so I’ve asked my daughter to get out the Reynolds Wrap and fold us a couple of tinfoil hats.

I also don’t know what the answer is to the question “Will Google Kill Comstock Films?” But on days like today, it sure feels like they’re trying!


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