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Early in February I started to notice my search referrals plummet, so I wrote a blog post asking if any one else had noticed simlar trends. A few people mentioned that a Google update was going on but nothing was concluded. I read an extremely useful post which explained that bloggers who upgraded to the latest version of Blogger also had receieved a new addition in their templates: A meta tag containing a No Index/No Follow attribute!!!
Obviously I removed the meta tag right there and then (Feb 21st) but the damage had been done. My search referrals were basically non existant, I had only a third of my pages indexed in Google and I was completely dropped from Google Blog Search. The graph below shows a exactly when I experienced the No Index/No Follow fiasco up until late last week when referrals went back to normal levels. Therefore it took about 2 weeks to recover completely. I also resubumitted to Google Blog Search, Google, and Google Sitemaps to help expedite the process.
On a related note, here are some tips to Sustain Traffic While Search Engines Update.
