When people search, they want an answer or a product: blogging often doesn’t provide answers and even more rarely products.
When your goals are different than the masses, you don’t need to act like the masses.
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What do I want the future of the Internet to look like? Last updated 21 February 2025 | Created March 2023 | More of my big questions Sub-questions How can I support the indie web? What defines the indie web (versus the open web, cozy web, IndieWeb, etc)? Who’s part of the indie web? What…
I’m wondering about one thing. When you block your site from search engines, will the entire site be deleted from search engines after a certain period of time?
Hi İsmail, because my site has already been indexed by search engines, I first have to tell them to deindex it. There’s theoretically a way to get them to do it all at once, but I instead opted to add a header in my site telling Google and Bing to “take me off their list.” I have to wait for them to revisit all the pages to receive that instruction and remove each page from their index, and then I plan to block googlebot and bingbot in my robots.txt.
If I didn’t do that, they would keep what they had already indexed but would not add any more pages.
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