Title: I have a personal blog (mostly dev related); it&#x27;s been going for a while. On a couple of specialist subjects (F# type providers being the main example) some of the posts are reasonably popular and linked to by many other people. Although it&#x27;s a small site, on these subjects it tends to show up in the first page on Bing, Duck Duck Go, etc for searches like &quot;Type provider tutorial&quot; and right at the top if you use a specific phrase (like the title of my most popular post, &quot;Type Providers from the Ground Up&quot;.<p>Google hates it. Basically, however specific the query, my blog never turns up unless you actually put the base url into your query. Ironically, plenty of spam sites&#x27; copies of the posts appear quite high in the search results.<p>What do you do in these types of situations? I&#x27;ve done no SEO beyond writing content, so I&#x27;m pretty sure I&#x27;ve used no &quot;black hat&quot; techniques. I&#x27;ve no ads, no duplicate content. Google webmaster tools claims the site is not blacklisted and that there is nothing wrong with it.<p>It feels wrong and possibly pointless to start again several years down the line with a new url just because Google doesn&#x27;t seem to like the current one; but on the other hand, the lack of organic search results will always be a limit on the readership. For a personal blog this is irritating and disappointing - if I was freelance or this was my company blog, it would be a real and immediate financial hit.<p>Thoughts or advice for people facing this situation?
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