I didn't know where to post this so I picked Google since it mainly pertains to my search results there. Back in January, while searching a key phrase for my site's ranking in Google, I came to the title of my homepage, a different description and a link to a different site. The ranking was about 15 positions down from when I last checked it months before. The other site is completely different from mine and there are no ties that I am aware of. The only common thread between the sites that I can see is adsense and Amazon. Searched for answers, came up with hijacking info and went that route. Wrote to Google and the other site, answer from Google was wait it out, no answer from the other site. Eventually hired someone to look into the issue and they found no evidence of hijacking and could not explain the issue, suggested to wait it out. My ranking went to zero. My site is back in a good position, but I have only half the pages cached that I used to and a majority of backlinks still point to the other site or sites that link to them, related too. Does anyone have any idea how I can correct this? or where to even start? I recently went to a vps from shared and will have a dedicated ip for the site, I would like to get this resolved or some direction before I transfer the site. Sorry to be so long.
You might want to read this. http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/indexing-timeline/ It does sound like at one time someone redirected to your site. Am sorry you did not run a server header check at that time. Now it is hard to tell if your indexing suffered as a result of that or new indexing algorithm.
ha, so I should wait it out. I did read much of the issues with BigDaddy but wondered if I didn't fit into that group of sites that suffered from it because my problem did seem to start before it began. Actually I feel BigDaddy got me back on track if only minimally in my view. I did make a lot of changes in hope of 'scoring' better as a site but this has been discouraging. I know I have good backlinks out there and I also used to get results from a lot of scraper sites. One thing I did in late December that I though might have been a problem was upgrade a cgi link program that now produced html pages, I transfered nearly 200 links and in effect, 200 new pages with links on them. The conversation on affiliates was interesting too. Thanks for pointing that out.
Is this a problem related to the MEGO blog Matt Cutts put out? The dedicated IP should take care of things. But the blog puts the blame on the rest of the internet, not Google. I railed on that here: http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showpost.php?p=891139&postcount=40