One of my pages has fallen out of Google's index. It's actually the one page that's gotten the most viral traction: Stumbled, Friendfeeded, etc. It hasn't been duplicated anywhere. http://www.seowordsmith.com/2008/11/23/free-blog-directories-with-a-high-page-rank/ It used to be the top page for: free blog directories page rank, but now it's not even there: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&...ectories+with+a+high+page+rank"&start=10&sa=N It might show up tomorrow, Google's funny that way, but it's not there today. Wondering why.
Hi there Its not unusual for a site to disapear from serps, Ive had it happen quite a few times, scary isnt it lol ! Try not to panic if you havent been trying to cheat you will be fine, keep working on your site and try to gain some more quality links and your site will return im sure. Woc
Thanks. The site's still there, but the one page that was bringing in the most traffic isn't. I hope this isn't the beginning of the site dropping from the index page by page. But I'm not panicking that much yet.
if its not a new page then you should be worried if its gone, is it still in google's index or has it lost any pagerank?
Here's a rule that will serve you well: DO NOT MAKE GOOGLE THE FOCUS OF YOUR INCOME I had a site with 300 pages of hand-written content devoted to a very popular marketing niche. After a year and a half, that site ranked on the first page of Google for a very competitive topic. And then, a few months later, the site simply disappeared from the rankings. Not one of the pages was listed in Google. I had Adsense on the site and was still getting traffic from other engines, so I left the site alone and moved on to other things. I literally made no changes to the site for the next two years. And then one day, out of the blue, I got a message from Google telling me that my site was not in compliance with their terms of service, and that they would stop serving Adsense to the site. I asked for clarification, and they told me that it was not possible to identify exactly what I was doing wrong. I'm using other advertising on the site now, which still draws traffic, although none of it comes from Google. If you have all of your eggs in one basket, you will end up getting hurt. Google is nice, but do not, under any circumstances, put yourself in a position where you are going to suffer tremendous losses if Google decides to ignore you. Charlie
Sites (and posts) go up and down the rankings all the time. Usually, Google ranks new content (recently written posts) highly for a short period of time (called the new content effect) and then drops the ranking dramatically. The ranking of the post then gradually improves until Google finds the right spot for it. It is really frustrating when you are ranking well for a term and then it disappears, but (unfortunately) that is life with Google!