[promoted by BooMan]
My blog’s Google ranking has been stolen, and I’d really appreciate some help getting it back. Go to Google and type in "religious left". You will notice that the first thing that comes up after the sponsored site is a site with the address religiousleft dot blogspot dot com. The description of the site startes out "Detailing the misadventures of the religious left … His insights come from years of experience observing the religious left up close. .." If you were to actually click on that link, you would find a blog that only went up at the end of July. Now go to the Wayback Machine. If you type in that url I spelled out above, here is what you find. The archives you find there go back to 2003, and what you find there is a very different sort of blog than the one this thieving johnny-come-lately says he is creating. MY blog. That url used to point to my Religious Left blog. It was also my blog that Deidre Pike wrote about in the Reno News and Review in August of 2003. To find out why that is no longer the url of my blog, see my diary here.
I’ve been working on building a new blog on my own web space, and I have contacted many of the people who linked to me in the past. Since those links are how artificially boosting the fraud’s Google ranking, I want to make sure as many people as possible change their Religious Left links so that they direct to my site. A few people have already changed the links, but at this rate it’s going to be really slow going getting my hard-earned Google ranking back.
I could really use some help. Take another look at the Google search results and you will find another sites called The Religious Left several results down, which has this url:
http://religiousleft.bmgbiz.net/
That is my Religious Left start page, with links to a handout I created comparing Bush and Jesus, another page explaining why I created the site, and, of course, a link to my new religious left blog. I’d really appreciate any help people can give me in linking the words "religious left" to this start page.
please describe your experience trying to get customer service to explain why your url was taken away and given to a fraud.
I soooo need to get away from this internet stuff and get back to my grading. But since you were kind enough to front-page this for me, I will put the grading off a little longer and try to recount what happened. Here is how I explained it in email to some friends on July 13. It was in the context of a lot of other stress and suckiness, which kept me from being able to give the problem the attention I now realize it needed.
I later discovered that all of my messages to Blogger Support had gone through, and I got this automatic email in response:
I did check out these links, especially the “A BLOG IS MISSING FROM YOUR DASHBOARD” one. It seemed to be about as useful as the “try these things first” tech support advice–“First, make sure the unit is plugged in…” and the like.
Embarrassing admission here–somehow when I read this email before, I missed the part that said “reply to this email if none of these things work”. In my defense, I was A) in something of a panic when I received that email and trying to triage all the things that needed to be replaced (school related stuff definitely had first priority) and B) probably so used to seeing automated emails telling me “Do not reply to this email” that I was expecting this one to say the same thing.
So, I have now replied to that email and said, in part:
I hope you get a good response to that email.
I’ve wanted to comment since I first saw you bring this issue up. But I had nothing more to say than
Please keep us informed!
I suppose this would be the place to mention the new location of your Religious Left site if I were to help engines find the Religious Left site. Just to make it clear, we’re taling about the:
Religious Left
Religious Left
Religious Left
Religious Left
Religious Left
Religious Left
Religious Left
Religious Left
Religious Left
Just making it clear…
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Thank you much!