I have 4 content sites and was number 1 or 2 for the keyword "hairstyles" and 4 for "hair styles", and good positions for the other sites for various related keywords but now the index pages on two of the sites have completly dissapeared. One went on thursday 3rd feb and the other friday. They are different sites with different content. There is some linking between sites but in no way is it excessive there is only one link, one way between the two affected sites. It is ONLY the index pages which seem to have disappeared so far. The sites have been around for a couple of years and one seemed to be an "authority" site. Can anyone help? Thanks, Debbie
The same thing has happened to me, but with just one site. Are your pages still in Google's index and are just not showing up for the keywords you have been targeting? My main index has dropped out completely for the main keyword word that I'm targeting. It had just gotten to number one. It's still in Google's index, but it is no where to be seen on the SERPs. I don't know what could have happened. I know Google often does some shaking up of the results, but this has lasted for at least a week, and still it is no where to be seen, not even pages back. I'm not sure if I should be concerned yet, or just give it some more time.
Same thing happened to one of my sites. It is was ranked in the top 10 of Google, but now it is no where to be found in the top 2000 results. Sites that have a link to us with the keyword in it rank in the top 50. With the shakeup that is going on I will rank in the top 5 on some datacenters. I have found that if the total results are less than 1,300,000 then I am in the top 5 if they go over that then I am no where to be found. The total results were around 1,100,000 before the whole change started. Hoping we all come back on top, Bela
The index page just isn't listed if I search for allinurl:mysite.com the index.htm page has gone all the others are up there in the serps and the deeper pages still get the traffic that they used to but its just the index page. It hasn't just been demoted right down the list, it has been removed. But the puzzling thing is that it is just the index page. Have I been blacklisted? (I can't think of a reason why). Surely they would remove the whole site but there is 800 or so other pages listed. I don't get it.
Debbie, Telling us the name of the website would help. **ALSO** Do not multiple post of the same question....if you give time a chance you do get replies. Ian
Is your http://www.yoursite.com/ page the same as your http://www.yoursite.com/index.htm page? If so maybe they dropped the latter as duplicate content.
I have noticed google doing some weird stuff with some of my indivual pages. I too went into a panic when I 1st notice noticed it. One of my pages usually comes up at 3 or a 4 for the search terms ADD Coach and ADD Coaching. Over the past several months I about every 6 weeks or so I have noticed that these pages have dropped to anywhere from 14-30. Then all of a sudden that appear back towards the top out of now where. So far they have only been gone from the top for about a week at the most. I have also noticed a few other search words wich are gone completely for a day or so then are back towards the top. It has really confused me too.
www.1001-hairstyles.com - 848 pages listed but not index.htm. www.prom-hairsatyles.org - 54 pages listed (allbeit with no title or description) but no index.htm. www.short-hairstyles.com - 199 pages listed as normal with index.htm. www.hair-styles.net - 5 pages listed - the index page is normal but the other 4 aren't on my site. www.just-hairstyles.com 645 pages listed index.htm is there but with no title or description - all other pages normal. (sorry 5 not 4 sites) I cannot get the index or root page on google of the first 2 sites by any method. Sorry about the multiple post thing I wasn't being impatient i just thought I had posted in the wrong section, as I can't find it and I am new. Debbie
by mysite.com/index.htm i mean mysite.com neither are listed I don't mean that the site/page has dropped in the serps, it has just gone. I cannot put the title in quotes and get a listing or any of the usual methods of finding a page.
same class 'c' Give a try to http://www.copyscape.com/ eem... tomorrow wheh I got fresh whitout 12 beers in my head I will go deeper with this if you're still at a loss. all this is not without a reason
If you type in www.1001-hairstyles.com http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=www.1001-hairstyles.com&btnG=Google+Search that's as it should be. Try: www.1001-hairstyles.com/index.htm it comes up as well. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=www.1001-hairstyles.com/index.htm&btnG=Search
I would be grateful if you would look into it further. I don't really know what you mean by "same class 'c' Give a try to http://www.copyscape.com/ It looks llike you're implementing someones serps at www.hairstylesite.com" Sorry I am kind of an amateur at all this
flamebworks, Thanks for that, yes that shows up but it doesn't show a title nor a description. I have n't tried that b4 - maybe its an improvement but the fundemental problem remains.
This is my mistake. I apologize for this I've taken this site for one of yours, sorry about this. I've edited my post, but it was too late.
You might want to do some allinurl research, maybe someone did a 302 redirect to these homepages and now you lost them.
Tops30, Can you clarify? I looked at the allinurl for 1001-hairstyles.com (which is the one thats more important) and the only odd result was "www.spotjockey.co.uk/portal/hits_out.php?ID=13825&URLOUT=http://www.1001-hairstyles.com&Bid=&Keyword_Id=" which seems to be a ppc search engine, I have never put this domain up for ppc anywhere but it is difficult to see why spotjocky.co.uk would want to screw me over. if this is the problem is there anything i can do about it? Thanks, Debbie
No need to clarify since you found the answer... I bet their redirect is by means of a 302 which basically highjacks your page (mostly unknowingly). Contact them and ask them to stop doing that. Search the forums and Google on 302 hijacking to find out how this all works. Search for a tool (I don't have the link handy) that checks the response header. Plug that spotjocky link in the tool and find out whether it is a 302 or not. Found it here: http://www.seoconsultants.com/tools/headers.asp I guessed correctly: