Bad Day at Google

Oy vey... I have four screens like this one:

 

It's a little over a year old (at this new domain name) and until today it was averaging over 6,000 visitors a day.

 

Sorry... what is the screen cap we are look at here?

What does it do?

thanks

 

Mark1:

That's a screen capture from the Digital Point Keyword Tracker.

 

Well, don't feel too bad. Mine shows plenty of red today to....

Are allot of the works you lost ranings in using the co-op? Just curious.

 

Same thing happened to me. Mine are all in the co-op, to answer Dastar. But I also have a couple sites where everything's in the green today. I bet it's just the dance starting again.

 

Did you confirm your drops manually? I've had the keyword tracker say -9xxx and checking manually showed I was still there-- maybe a Google API timeout or something... For onesy-twosy -9xxx's, I often click them again and they bounce back...


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Derek

 

Just confirming because every word I dropped for are words all in the co-op. Not sure there is any correlation, but just gathering data. Thanks.

 

I am not currently using the Co-Op.

 

Yes, for exactly the reasons you mentioned.

 

Thanks, then I know it's not just google trageting that (not that I really thought that anyway).

 

That's sad to see. Guess things return to normal within hours. My keywords have improved a lot today. Actually I'm back to normal after it was bad for a couple of weeks.

 

You sould really check it every ten minutes to be sure. :/

 

Today I checked three times, so in my case it seems to be true and my keywords are back to normal again.

 

One thing which adds to my confusion is that, for some of the SERPS that dropped into oblivion, I have no competition:

I believe I am the only web site on the Internet targeting the phrase "System Identification Home System".

http://www.google.com/search?q=System+Identification+Home+System&hl=en&lr=

 

Google's response to my reinclusion request:
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Thank you for your note. This is an automated reply to your inquiry about your site's inclusion in the Google search results. When webmasters write to us that their site has fallen out of our search results, we often find that it's still included. To quickly determine whether your site is currently included in our index, perform a Google search for its entire URL. For example, a search for [ www.google.com ] returns the following result:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=www.google.com. If your site returns as a result, it's included. While we're always working to include more content in Google, sites can occasionally fall out of our search results. Our spiders regularly crawl the web to rebuild our index, but keeping tabs on eight billion pages is tough work, and they may miss a few. As for the sites they find, updates to the content of pages often result in ranking changes. Normal changes include, but aren't limited to, the addition of new sites, changes in the ranking of existing sites, sites falling out of the index or getting dropped for particular keywords, and fluctuation between old and new
webpage content. Please be assured that these changes are automated. It is certainly our
intent to represent the content of the internet fairly and accurately. Our crawlers aren't bullies; they don't pick on particular sites. Also, please note that Google's advertising programs are independent of the process by which we assemble the Google index. Participation in an advertising program does not affect inclusion or ranking in the Google search results.

We understand that these changes can be confusing. If your site's well linked to others on the web, it's likely that we'll add it again during our next crawl. While we can't guarantee that any page will consistently appear in our index or appear with a particular rank, our Webmaster Guidelines, available at http://www.google.com/webmasters/guidelines.html,
offer helpful tips for making your site crawler friendly. Following these recommendations should increase the likelihood that your site will show up consistently in our search results. Regards, The Google Team

 

WOW, if people didn't waste the time of the google staff with entitlement questions cause their stats were off for 2 hours, they could have a real person answer the "REAL" questions that matter.

Pet peeve number two documented.

 

Another thought... Has the Googlebot been visiting your site recently? I had a google drop that was caused by a Googlebot block at my [former] ISP...



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Derek

 

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