Introduction - but this is not a new blog
Here's the story. I began making hotel and housecalls in Los Angeles in 1978. By the
1990s I was doing it full time. Ultimately I made over 18,000, and no one will
ever match that because there was little competition in the early days. Today
there’s plenty.
I began a blog, The Hotel Doctor
(thehoteldoctor.blogspot.com) in 2009. I posted regularly and enjoyed a good
response until something weird happened. My page views dropped almost to zero;
after a few months a post might acquire a dozen clicks. At the same time,
cryptic E-mails from the “Google Search Console Team” began arriving. They had detected “mobile usability issues” or
that they were “validating coverage issue fixes” and would inform me when they
had finished. I had no idea what was happening. Google has no blog customer
service, but I appealed to several support groups and learned that Google
apparently had stopped indexing my posts. They had plenty of suggestions for
fixing this, many I couldn’t understand, and none worked.
Finally I decided the only solution was to close that blog and begin a new one, hoping that the glitch would not reappear. You can still read the old blog at thehoteldoctor.blogspot.com or. by Googling “the hotel doctor,” and it’s full of good stories. My posts here will continue those, but I may copy a few.
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