my page dropped out all of a sudden

Discussion in 'Google' started by WilsonA, Dec 7, 2007.

  1. #1
    I had my page from my site ranked between 3rd to 5th for 3 keywords I was
    targeting and all of a sudden today they are all gone my main site is still
    indexed plus the other pages but this most important one is no longer indexed
    what could have gone wrong? all I need was build natural backlinks to my site
    through article submissions, forum posting and stuff no paid backlinks
    so why would google drop it?
     
    WilsonA, Dec 7, 2007 IP
  2. sb1234

    sb1234 Banned

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    #2
    It happens from time to time, it should be back, just be patient.
     
    sb1234, Dec 7, 2007 IP
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    conker_on_net Active Member

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    #3
    sorry to hear that.

    It should come back soon, unless you have been doing something unethical.
     
    conker_on_net, Dec 7, 2007 IP
  4. Gawk

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    #4
    I had blog pages disapear this morning, they came back again after a couple of hours.
     
    Gawk, Dec 7, 2007 IP
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    #5
    Every once in a while my site disappears, but shows up one or two days later right where it was previously.
     
    sb1234, Dec 7, 2007 IP
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    #6
    I am seeing the exact same thing with our site. We had #1 organic ranking on G yesterday and now today I can't find our site anywhere. It's hard to be patient when you don't know what or why this happened.
     
    tcouillard, Dec 7, 2007 IP
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    #7
    one of mine drops out for a week, then comes back for a week, and the cycle continues constantly. very annoying
     
    medicalhumor, Dec 7, 2007 IP
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    #8
    One of my sites also dropped. It's not even in the top 1000 (used googlerankings.com)

    It's been 4 days now and no sign of it so far! I worked so hard on that site, not just code, content but also building links and now it's all gone! :s
     
    zee, Dec 7, 2007 IP
  9. Gawk

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    #9
    Maybe we need a "where is my site" rather than a "submit site" at Google ;)
     
    Gawk, Dec 7, 2007 IP
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    #10
    If anyone is using redirects with masking features I read somewhere that google may take down sites using them. Says we are fooling the search engines. I use some ethical redirects for some of my sites and that has me concerned. I'm not sure which ones they'll decide are against rules and are not? So unpredictable.

    Hope everyones sites come back.
     
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  11. Gawk

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    Google likes the 301 redirects, stick to those and you will be OK.
     
    Gawk, Dec 7, 2007 IP
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    #12
    That's normal. That was also happen to my keywords. All of my keywords got down then a day after it shows again to it's previous position.
     
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  13. WilsonA

    WilsonA Active Member

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    #13
    thanks guys I did not know it was a common occurence my main site
    is still indexed and I was not using any redirects it was a blog posting
    I would give it some time before I check again
     
    WilsonA, Dec 7, 2007 IP
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    #14
    hehe, yup, don't panic... especially with the recent Google's mystery changes to the algorithm and what not :), once it is all said and done you should be back on top or even higher, due to the bad bad seo guys getting penalized
     
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    #15
    Just continue your link building and be patient. It happens very often when google updates algo.
     
    Hersheys, Dec 7, 2007 IP
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    #16
    Mines vanished as well. I know its unpredictable, but one comment here has me a little worried.

    What do you mean by "using redirects with masking features"?

    My blog features a lot of external links to /checkurl.php?url=hgvg3u4hiu3h4t384th3b4uih5g35hguihg98q3h4ngjrig5 and so on (base64 encode of the url). The check url script checks the link is good, counts the link click then does a:

    header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently");
    header("Location: $url");

    The anchor tag has a rel="nofollow" and checkurl.php is blocked via robots.txt

    Would this be considered a "masking feature" and cause lower rankings?

    Thanks
     
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  17. zee

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    #17
    Yes, can anyone please answer shinycurves' answer? Some of the outbound links on my site are in the following format

    mydomainname.com/go.php?url=http://www.outboundURL.net/click-2456077-10470308

    Does this mean that I am getting penalized for this? Is it a bad habbit something that I should remove right away?
     
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    #18
    Thanks for the explanation because I was about to start a thread on this. My page also vanished all of sudden, let's see when it will appear again.
     
    sohni, Dec 8, 2007 IP
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    #19
    happened with me as well , and i had no paid links too, unexplainable as far as i understand.
     
    procrastinator, Dec 8, 2007 IP
  20. linkmanager

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    #20
    maybe it is just temorary... pls wait a few days.. maybe google is changing somthing in algo
     
    linkmanager, Dec 8, 2007 IP