Ankit Rawat

Update: JohnMu Commented “I just wanted to mention that we have been looking into this. As soon as I have more information, I’ll let you know. It’s great to see you all using Sitemaps!”

A thread over Google Groups reported, Google is not crawling custom domains based on Blogger and Blogspot.

Looks like the last date Google Bot crawled Custom Domains based on blogspot on 30th July 2008.

According to a Webmaster:

Cached on 30 and after that not a single time Googlebot is coming. Everything in my site is fine. My SERP is great. But sudden Googlebot stopped crawling my site, I am not engaged in any activity that is against Google.

I had words with Sunil Gupta of Daily Technology Tips who is facing similar problems, I asked him few questions:

Me: How old is ur website !!
Sunil: 4-5 Months
Me: Do u sell or buy links ?
Sunil: No way, never
Me: Have u ever noticed similar problem in past ?
Sunil: No
Me: Have u made any recent changes in server or domain registrar ?
Sunil: No
Me: Have u noticed some recent fall in traffic or rankings ?
Sunil: No, Decent SERP
Me: Have u checked ur referrals ? Is there any new site sending tons of traffic ?
Sunil: No, only DP, sometimes stumble and yahoo answer.

Looks like there is surely a big problem with Google in Indexing those Custom Domains, I did a research on some more sites excluding those mentioned in the Google Group thread and all of them are facing similar problem … I can’t see any of the post done from those custom domains after July indexed in Google.

If u know any site which is using Custom Domain and is indexed after July then let me know !!

Forum Discussion at: Google Groups.