Many people in the SEO community are discussing the fact that John Mueller’s website doesn’t show up in Google Search results anymore. It appears that his website was removed from Google entirely. The big question is: why did this happen? John Mueller is widely known as a spokesperson for Google Search on the internet., so for his site, johnmu.com, with a ton of geeky topics on it, to be not showing up in the Google Search results – SEOs wonder…
If you search command for [site:johnmu.com] – no results come up:
Sure, the first step for every SEO is to check the website’s robots.txt file at johnmu.com/robots.txt. After that, they search for any other meta tags that could stop the site from getting indexed.
We can’t check if John’s website got a manual action on Google Search Console, like many other sites did last week. But I don’t think his site was affected by it.
I spotted this via:
.@JohnMu FYI, your website got completely deindexed in Google. It seems Google went crazy 😱
H/T @seb_skowron & @ziptiedev pic.twitter.com/RGq6GodPsG
— Tomek Rudzki (@TomekRudzki) March 13, 2024
Here is how John is responding to the reaction of this information thus far:
@googlesearchc help me
— John (@JohnMu) March 13, 2024
How to double the traffic to your site in these 5 easy steps!
— John (@JohnMu) March 13, 2024
I definitely do not forget to EAT, lol 🙂
— John (@JohnMu) March 13, 2024
Tell me what it finds, please!
— John (@JohnMu) March 13, 2024
It’s raining on Googlebot. What does it mean?
— John (@JohnMu) March 13, 2024
You might be on to something – look what I found: pic.twitter.com/Q6Ej0A1O7Z
— John (@JohnMu) March 13, 2024
Here is Fabrice Canel from the Bing team – how funny:
🙏
— John (@JohnMu) March 13, 2024
What do you all think is going on. It seems John is having fun with this one…
Be nice please.
Forum discussion at X.
Update: John posted on LinkedIn more details, he wrote:
