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Through a stroke of bad luck, the Atlantic Council server was down during a critical Google update

James Joyner · Monday, April 2, 2012 · 1 comment

Through a stroke of bad luck, the Atlantic Council server was down during a critical Google update. Consequently, the Atlantic Council site, acus.org, was de-indexed by Google, findable only through a site-specific search, even though it still ranks highly at Bing, Yahoo, and other search engines. I’ve been told that linking the Atlantic Council website from OTB, which is still indexed, may help expedite re-indexing.

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James Joyner is Professor and Department Head of Security Studies at Marine Corps University's Command and Staff College. He's a former Army officer and Desert Storm veteran. Views expressed here are his own. Follow James on Twitter @DrJJoyner.

Comments

Doug Mataconis says:

Monday, 2 April 2012 at 17:34

I’m no SEO expert but wouldn’t waiting for the next crawl of the Google spider solve this problem at least somewhat?