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No, that was because I thought my site was under attack (this was before I learned the story was posted here).

Since when did Steam forums require a login?

This kind of problem is also showing up on Quora. Some of the answers I've spotted are so obviously wrong that you can tell a person didn't write them.

I mainly use DDG, and this is part of the reason why.

The problem is that Google actually has support for quotes, even if it's not reliable. Try searching for short song lyrics or poetry, or pretty much any obscure quote on ddg and you can't find it. Putting individual words and phrases in quotes does nothing on ddg unless they suggest it for you...in which case it often still doesn't work

According to Cloudflare, the site has had around 30k unique visitors in just the first 3 hours since the link was posted here.

It's my site, yes. It's on a VPS which usually has far more resources than required. I really wasn't expecting to get everyone's attention.

That's much more than I expected, to be honest. I guess most people are lurking.

That is Cloudflare.

So many people were clicking on the link from here that it inadvertently DDOS-ed my server. I had to turn on the "under attack" feature in Cloudflare just to get the other sites running again.

I've noticed this as well. I now use a different slug or domain for the development page(s), and change it when the page goes live.

Amazon is so bad that I shop on Walmart's website now.

That is my blog post.

I did that with the convention site, yes. It still wasn't getting indexed.

Did you build any links to the site? Links=Votes=Trust in Google's eyes....for better or worse. Even a tweet or Pinterest pin?

yep, all of that!