Google De-Indexed My Entire Bear Blog and I Don’t Know Why
07 Nov, 2025
Preamble: The whole affair is Google’s fault and not Bear Blog’s. Huge thanks to Herman—Bear Blog’s founder and dev—for his patience and help.
A month after I started my first Bear blog at blog.james-zhan.com, my blog was entirely de-indexed by Google for no apparent reason:
I have since migrated to journal.james-zhan.com (you are on it right now) and redirected all links from blog.james-zhan.com accordingly, but to this day, I don’t understand what happened, and so I’m putting this post out there to see if perhaps anyone could shed some light—you are welcome to email me or leave a comment at the bottom of the post.
Let me backtrack and show you how it all went down.
At first, all was well
My blog went live on Oct 4 and I published a lengthy, well-research opinion piece commenting on a recent event.
Because of that, I wanted the article to show up on Google ASAP so that when people searched about the event, maybe my article would come up. I knew that it could take a while for Google to naturally crawl and index a new site, so to accelerate the process, I went on Google Search Console (GSC), submitted the sitemap and requested indexing on my article.
And it worked—the next day, my blog and articles were indexed and showed up on Google if you put in the right search terms.
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