Until I can figure out why Google is (unjustly) penalizing my site, I’m removing the iPhone Hacking guide, as well as any other non-blog post pages to try to figure out what the heck Google’s algorithms don’t like.
Category: Tech & IT
Fix Windows Phone 7/8 + Gmail “Attention Required” Error – WP8
If you’re getting this problem,it’s Google’s Fault, and not the Windows 7 / Windows 8 Phone’s.
Go to the following URL, put your password in and enter the captcha. This will solve the problem and let you use your Gmail account on your Windows Phone.
https://www.google.com/accounts/DisplayUnlockCaptcha
It seems to disable some captcha security setting on your Gmail Account. Use at your own risk, I don’t know what else it does.
Hey Google & Bing – STOP CHEATING. [Search with Yandex instead]
It seems these days that nobody in the US can build a decent search engine.
Just recently, I discovered that this site was no longer receiving traffic, so I looked and found something interesting.
Google has almost completely removed this site from their search results.
Search Google for “Jonathan Mumm” – this page used to be #3, now it’s not even in the top 10 pages!
The same search for Bing shows me at #1.
- I didn’t change anything on my site in that time. (Unless Google hates my last post about how the Windows 7 Phone sucks?)
- I used the same exact White-hat SEO techniques/plugins on other sites I have built that Google loves.
- No malware is installed on my site.
- (Did Google see my Reddit submission for an article I link below?) Highly doubtful, but this is the same time as my problems started.
Why did that happen? Great question and I haven’t been able to point to anything other than Google’s recent “Farmer Update.”
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