Hi Guys, I am working on one of my client website. After hard-work of 6 months, our rankings were on FIRST page - 7th position in Google.co.in crawling the homepage (4 days ago). But after 2nd May' 14 - we saw a sudden drop in our rankings and Google has also de-indexed our homepage (Homepage Only) and have kicked our homepage from all three major search engines i.e. Google, Yahoo & Bing. Experts in this forums - request you to share your thought and let us know why our website got affected. Was there any major update? Please share your thoughts.
Do you have Google webmasters account? If so could you log in there and see if you have any messages from there on your dashboard such as warning or alert messages?
One of the main reasons why a site's PR drops significantly is that site violates Google's webmaster quality guidelines. Any link schemes involved will get your site penalized. Check these guidelines for webmasters, see if you have broken any of the recommendations mentioned there: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/66356?hl=en But just to sum it up, this is what webmaster shouldn't be doing: Buying or selling links that pass PageRank. This includes exchanging money for links, or posts that contain links; exchanging goods or services for links; or sending someone a "free" product in exchange for them writing about it and including a link Excessive link exchanges ("Link to me and I'll link to you") or partner pages exclusively for the sake of cross-linking Large-scale article marketing or guest posting campaigns with keyword-rich anchor text links Using automated programs or services to create links to your site Text advertisements that pass PageRank Advertorials or native advertising where payment is received for articles that include links that pass PageRank Links with optimized anchor text in articles or press releases distributed on other sites Low-quality directory or bookmark site links Keyword-rich, hidden or low-quality links embedded in widgets that are distributed across various sites Widely distributed links in the footers or templates of various sites Forum comments with optimized links in the post or signature Not adding a rel="nofollow" attribute to the <a> tag
Could you please elaborate this statement - After hard-work of 6 month (hard work includes.........), thn only we are able to help you out. Thanks, Aps God is listening
Were the links, and the way you were developing those links for your client, garbage? Common sense works better than what Google tells you works. If you know your marketing has been less than satisfactory and intelligent, penalties result. Google's own suggestions have been disproved time and time again, and that list a few posts up has many incorrect assumptions about what works and what doesn't work. Check again in a week and see how the site is ranking and whether it's indexed. Check robots, htaccess, and sitemap to make sure nothing changed and the search engines can access and index the site. Ask your clients to keep adding new content, see what that does for them too.
May be your website in manual action, You got a msg on webmaster tool just check it. google found your bad links of spam links so that google de-index your website. Now monitor your submitted links and make a .txt file and use google disavow tool Remove bad and unwanted links.
What exactly is HARD work according to you? If you managed to get to 1st page, then you should have done something really... AGAINST the rules. Not really sure, but check your content (if it's not duplicated!). Did you add something to the sidebar? Did you change the title or something else soon? There are soooo many reasons...
Now days it seems hard to rank websites high in search engines because of the competition and because of algorithm changes made each and every 3 months. On the other hand you should follow quality guidelines which can lead you towards success. It is all about thinking naturally how things work in your daily routine life.