Lately (and by "lately" I mean in the past 30 minutes or so, on an idle whim), I've been kind of thinking about starting to crosspost this Dreamwidth blog over to my currently completely unused Wordpress thing, but before doing that, I would want to export all of the already existing posts from here to there. However, that does not appear to be a simple thing to do, and I'm not currently interested in trying to jump through a lot of hoops to get it to work. As such, I'll probably never actually bother to get around to doing it. Alas. *sigh*

My main reason for wanting to do this is because my Dreamwidth blog apparently does not exist, at least as far as Google is concerned, which is something I've been pondering for longer than just the past 30 minutes. The base-level Dreamwidth page does, as well as some blogs of other people, but mine doesn't, at least as far as Google knows. But my unused, cobweb-covered Wordpress thing with only a single entry does exist, so sayeth Google. Similarly, my old, defunct Livejournal page also exists, according to Google, unlike the DW page, even though I haven't touched the LJ in half a decade.

If I could simply figure out how to get the DW blog itself to be properly indexed by Google, that would be probably good enough and would negate the "need" to export/crosspost to a blog that actually is indexed by Google. In the DW settings, I have the "Off-Site Search Engines: Attempt to block outside search engines from indexing my journal" option not checked. It used to be the case that I could have simply submitted the URL to the old Google webcrawler, but apparently that has long since been discontinued, and now you apparently have to "own" the URL (which I don't, obviously, since it's a third party thing) and be signed up to Google Search Console or whatever the fuck, in order to submit said URL for crawling purpose. Or, else, if it is possible for me to do it, despite it being a third party thing, I haven't figured out how, yet.

Then again, perhaps the fact that my DW blog isn't searchable via Google is actually a blessing in disguise. ¬_¬ *shrug*

(EDIT) Granted, it's possible to search for the URL as a text string and get some results (i.e. without the "site:" operator), but those results are other sites that link to my DW blog (the vast majority of which seem to be comments I left over on John Scalzi's website), rather than direct links back here via Google itself. Eh... I've probably thought about this for longer than it's worth to do so. *sigh + shrug* (/EDIT)

(EDIT 2) Also, on a tangent, when I click that Google link in the previous "EDIT" section, for some odd reason, I see Google results for DeviantArt, but only for like half a second or so, and then they weirdly disappear. Same thing happens if I just search directly for DeviantArt, too, though for that, at least, there's still a right-side panel thing for it, for what that's worth.

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After a bit of research, it apparently has something to do with the Personal Blocklist add-on I have installed in Firefox, even though I do not have any DeviantArt domains blocked in that. When I disable that add-on, the DeviantArt Google results show as normal and don't disappear. However, with the add-on enabled, DeviantArt results are acting like the domains that I do have explicitly blocked with that add-on (e.g. Faux Noise dot com, etc.), though. Weird. (/EDIT 2)