I got an email from one of our readers the other day. Tyler from Longren.org had this to say about Intouch:
I just quit using Intouch because it prevented Blogpulse (maybe others?) from crawling my site.
He might be right you know, because since installing the Intouch plugin here at digitalSURGERY we’ve also noticed the software over at BlogPulse and Google have both stopped crawling this blog. We are going to give it another 24 hours to see if the authors of Intouch get back to us with a fix (we contacted them yesterday), after this period we’ll have no choice but to remove the plugin and amend or delete the original article.
UPDATE: Google HAS indexed digitalSURGERY now and that’s with Intouch running. Maybe this is just a BlogPulse specific bug? We still have an unsolved mystery on our hands 
UPDATE 2: I’ve concluded that this problem IS exclusive to BlogPulse at this moment. I disabled Intouch in my own blog and BlogPulse still hadn’t indexed my site almost 3 days later. However, other search engines (the ones that count) have been crawling my blog regularly.
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I’m chalking this one up to the BlogPulse crawler being stupid now. I don’t think any other sites had any problems crawling, excecpt perhaps Feedster.
I’ve gotta do a bit more digging on that one first though.
Is BlogPulse that big of a deal? intouch doesn’t seem to affect Google at all.
I don’t need BlogPulse at all, they do have some nice features though.
In that case we won’t worry about it. Thanks Tyler!
Good thing we got this sorted. I’ll be keeping an eye on BlogPulse meanwhile though to see if things improve.