Saturday, December 20, 2008

Blog Design: You Fix One Thing, You Mess Up Something Else

I swear that this hasn't been my week for redesigning this blog. I finally get all of the display problems fixed, and what happens? Apparently, I screwed up something in the template that caused Google to incorrectly index all my posts. They no longer have a title. Instead, they say "Just Bloggled is a member of the following blog directories." That's not good at all. It might also explain the drop in my RealRank since very few items are showing up in the Google Blog Directory and the search results for Google. Good grief. I'm pretty sure it has something to do with the language at the top of the template having to do with the title. For whatever reason, the second line that had data:blog.pagetitle in it was missing from this blog's template. I don't recall deleting it, and I don't know where it went, but it definitely went somewhere. Maybe it went to Great Resting Place for Accidentally Deleted HTML in the Sky. Maybe it went to that place that my socks go when I put them in the drier and they fail to come out. Maybe it found a nice retirement home to move to in Florida. You've got me. I just hope that I fixed the problem and that it doesn't take Google long to re-index it.

So here's a question regarding that: do I now have to resubmit my site for Google to crawl, or do I just wait for it to do it naturally? If someone knows, please let me know. Thanks.

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