Googlebot Experiment FAIL - Please Explain!
As my account is too new to include a link in the text of my post, and so I simply referred to it in the text without a link. However, there is a link to the homepage of my website in my signature. (See below)
As part of the discussion was to make sure that my article had been indexed by Google before pointing to it using Social Bookmarking.
Just now, I did a google search for "Discerning Health Disinformation on the Web" and my article was nowhere to be found. However, as it turns out, my post on this forum referencing the article has been indexed...twice!
So what gives? How come the googlebot did not follow the link in my signature, arrive at the article, and index it??
Some additional tidbits:
This forum does not use the "nofollow" attribute, so the bot should have followed the link... right?
Yes, there is a direct path to the article from the homepage of my site.
Yes, I did update the sitemap.
Can anybody explain this to me? :confused:
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