My blogger sites' SEO has tanked, now I know why
Google indexes mobile first, while Blogger has an out-dated approach of redirecting for mobile clients Google Search Console is reporting that the URLs on my blog are not being indexed due to: Failed: Redirect error The crawler involved is Googlebot smartphone, so it seems that it will be tripping over Blogger's old fashioned approach for handling of mobile clients, that basically involves redirecting the client to specify the URL with a querystring parameter appended to it. As far as the indexer is concerned the URL with the parameter won't be a match for the canonical URL so should not be indexed as representative of the content for the canonical URL. In the past it may have not been much of an issue as the Desktop crawler would eventually come along to index the site and not encounter the redirection, so the URL requested would match with the canonical URL and it would be a simple one to one mapping for safely indexing the content. Ironically the Blogger platform is owne...