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MAGA candidate blocks Google from his site, complains that Deep State is hiding his site from Google
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/10/10/2128079/-Always-the-victim-MAGA-candidate-claims-Google-blocked-his-website-Turns-out-he-blocked-GoogleOn Twitter, along with his fundraising ask, he wrote: “Google & the crooks in California refuse to rank my website in their deep state algorithm. Please share my website & link to it so that the voters can see it. They DON’T want me to look at election corruption in Arizona. Crooked #FakeFontes is their fixer.”
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The GRID news decided to look into this assertion by Finchem. It saw that Finchem’s campaign page was indeed absent from any Google searches for his name or campaign. The only way to find Finchem’s website was to directly type in the URL. ... However, GRID was able to confirm that “Finchem’s site was coded to explicitly direct Google and other search engines not to index it.”
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As Adler told GRID, you really have make sure you don’t allow Google to list your website in searches by actively clicking a “no” on the option page in preferences, “which seems like a strange thing to do when you’re running a campaign, frankly.”
Furthermore, GRID was able to look back and see that this is not a circumstance where the website was created and the search function turned off. That decision would not be entirely unusual as a sort of soft launch of a site while one sends friends and copy editors to the site to make sure everything is polished. But that’s not what has happened here.
Archived copies of the site indicate the “noindex” code was inserted in Finchem’s site between mid-July and Aug. 1. Earlier snapshots of the site don’t include the command.
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The GRID news decided to look into this assertion by Finchem. It saw that Finchem’s campaign page was indeed absent from any Google searches for his name or campaign. The only way to find Finchem’s website was to directly type in the URL. ... However, GRID was able to confirm that “Finchem’s site was coded to explicitly direct Google and other search engines not to index it.”
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As Adler told GRID, you really have make sure you don’t allow Google to list your website in searches by actively clicking a “no” on the option page in preferences, “which seems like a strange thing to do when you’re running a campaign, frankly.”
Furthermore, GRID was able to look back and see that this is not a circumstance where the website was created and the search function turned off. That decision would not be entirely unusual as a sort of soft launch of a site while one sends friends and copy editors to the site to make sure everything is polished. But that’s not what has happened here.
Archived copies of the site indicate the “noindex” code was inserted in Finchem’s site between mid-July and Aug. 1. Earlier snapshots of the site don’t include the command.
When you open a website in your browser, press Ctrl+U and a new tab opens with the plain code of the website.
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