PR6 Home page with 6910 backlinks disappeared

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    The site http://games.mobiguru.ru/ ranked #1 for the keyword "java games" and for many combinations "java games for nokia" and so on.

    And 6 month ago the home page disappered from Google index and positions are gone.

    The page still has PR6 and there's 947 pages from this site in Google index http://www.google.ru/search?hl=ru&q=site:games.mobiguru.ru&lr=

    And it has 6,910 backlinks pointing to it: http://www.google.ru/search?hl=ru&q=link:games.mobiguru.ru&lr=

    Please, help! Can't wait any more. What could it be?
     
    ZanderXML, Mar 21, 2005 IP
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    Zander XML, this was a common problem a while back in some of the old updates. Many people think it is an "over-optimisation" penalty but in fact its usually no such thing, merely an issue over where your links are pointing. this post below on webmaster world earlier this year introduced me to the concept of "canonical root page" and you need to make sure that (if thats what you want) your index page is or needs to become this.

    hope that helps.

    posted by "GoogleGuy" on August 16 2004 on webmaster world.
    msg #:33 11:32 pm on Aug 16, 2004 (utc 0)
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    Hey XXXXXX, I think I've found your problem. There's no penalties or anything like that; it's because you're splitting your internal linkage between two different root pages. Suppose your domain is yourdomain.com. Do the search [site:yourdomain.com inurl:https]. See those 912 https results? Click on the cached page for the first one. Now mouseover the link in the top left. Instead of pointing to http://www.yourdomain.com/, notice that it points to http://www.yourdomain.com/index.asp. All the https cached pages that I checked link to the index.asp version of your home page, and there were enough of your internal pages doing that that you convinced us that http://www.yourdomain.com/index.asp was the canonical root page for your domain. That's why when you do the search [yourdomain] you see http://www.yourdomain.com/index.asp as the first result.
    So your hundreds of internal https pages pointing to a different location is clouding the water some. If you fix them to all point to the same location (http://www.yourdomain.com/) then we'll crawl all those pages in a little while, and you should be fine shortly afterwards.

    I guess the takehome message is to doublecheck your internal linkage. I'd pick a canonical root page like http://www.yourdomain.com/ and just stick with that by making sure any internal pages point there instead of to other versions of your root page.
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