On one of my main sites the main (homepage) appears to have vanished from MSN's index, however other pages are still in the index (can't see anything changing there *yet*). I am still ranking in MSN, and for some terms still in the top 10 (secondary site page - http://www.mydomain.com/directroy/page.html etc), but no more ranking #1 with the homepage. I thought it may have been a glitch, but it has been around now for a few days (since the weekend approx). Anyone experienced this before? Know what it means?
Yep.. I have experienced that and am currently experiencing that with a few sites. THey come back within about a week.. I was about to ask this very same question.
yes I've also experienced this. it's quite annoying as I have a high ranking with my index page most of the time. =(
Yes, I have the same thing with my site. The homepae page is not ranking. The subpages are showing up in the results, but not as high as the homepage was.
Glad i'm not the only one. Three of my sites have experienced big drops in the last week or so. Two of them from the first page to outside the top 200. I hope they do come back.
exactly same thing happened to my site... my homepage from #1 suddenly dropped its ranking. And I wonder why is it only the homepage dropped ranking. my secondary page is still kicking.. any solutions?
Has anyone who experienced this problem, had their main page reindexed yet? Or is this MSNs way of banning?
My main page is in index just by typing companyname.com/ (with slash) ... but when when typing just companyname .. only the secondary pages shows up which usually your homepage will be shown first.
Ok, yep by doing "just by typing companyname.com/" shows my main page is in fact indexed, it just isn't ranking well, ranking below my other site pages, which it used to outrank. Something is up And been about a week now too.
Can any of you tell me the last time any of your sites were visted by MSN or the last time you had pages cached? Out of many sites MSN has only visited one site recently.. and for home pages of ranked and non-ranked sites, I don't have a page in MSN's cache newer than 7 days old at this point.. And I used to get updated at least once a day, sometimes more.
Msn bot hit one of my dropped sites today hit about 100 pages including the index. Hope the cache date is refreshed tomm. the cache date know is 9/23 just before the big plunge. I also have been seeing (Microsoft URL Control - 6.00.8862) in my stats I do not recall seeing this before any Ideas?
My cached date of my homepage is 09/24 , and Its been weeks n half waiting MSN to cache my homepage again. any suggestion?