Google has de-listed SermonIndex (almost all pages) Ways you can help

Saints,

It seems as if Google has de-listed the sermonindex site so when you search for "sermonindex" you do not get SermonIndex.net We have gone ahead and asked google to verify why this has happened etc. Please firstly pray that the Lord allows this for the good and it gets listed again soon. Yes praying does matter and God will at times not work unless the people of God pray.

Secondly a very positive way you can help is link to www.sermonIndex.net from your blog, or website. By putting a few links on your blog or website will give the site extra POSITIVE credit which will make it seem more valid to be listed.

Thank you saints for your help.

The gates of hell shall not prevail against you, brother.
This site is built on the Rock of Christ! Hallelu Yah.
Will pray gladly for favor from Google.

We received a message from a brother:

Steven Ray Ummm... I provide SEO services and collected 715,000 direct results from searching for SermonIndex using the query operator: site:sermonIndex.net I don't see any indicators of being blacklisted on Google. Bing on the other hand, only provided 59,200 results.

and my reply:

Greg Gordon Yes but I think every listing is demoted SERVERLY such as just searching for "sermonindex" you do not find the actual site homepage even on the first 2 pages where before it was listed number 1, etc. Brother steve if you had any time and desire to help serve and help that would be great.

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So it seems the site has not been totally de-listed just servely demoted for some reason. May God again open doors with Google to show favour, this shows saints how if they wanted to minimize a site for a specific search phrase such as "home churches" "persecution" etc they could very easily.

In my mind there is not logical reason for them to take down sermonindex so quickly from their rankings.

Thank you for your continued prayers. Over 50% of the traffic is directly from google search results.

I just searched Leonard Ravenhill and the first link for sermonindex.net was on the 5 page. it didn't use to be that far down... odd

The problem is that those accessing the site from Search Engines over 90% of those results are from Google. In the end this could show how it is not healthy or right to have one search engine being so pre-dominate.

Let's pray this is cleared up soon.

Is there anything going on with google as far as starting to charge buisnesses for there listings??

That definitely could be a route things are going. I was thinking about this much tonight that I use gmail (a google service), I search with google.com (exclusively), In the past I was even using Chrome (the google browser), I use google maps for all my location searches. To me there is perhaps too much of a monopoly for something everyone uses everyday.

I remember many years ago altavista was a great search directory and also goshen was a wonderful Christian search engine.

If you need someone to speak with them locally, let me know. I am located about two miles from their campus.

I got the mental picture of a david before a goliath. Thank you for your continued prayers.

I already did! www.godweb.info and I gave it over to a brother to continue to build and run. To make one that is very accurate and large would take alot of money and time. I did it in 1 month with barely any start up cost.

I own a restaurant and google is really stepping up the telamarketers on us. I do believe they are working on charging to their listings.

Very interesting.