My #2 ranked site....dropped from Google's index...

[Steve23]

I have analytics installed and had a decent traffic day to my little 3 page review blog. It's actually been doing quite well this month promoting a CPA offer and it's about a month or so old. Then early this morning I decided to check up on my rankings and couldnt find my site anywhere in google. I even did a site search and turned up 0 results. The site is optimized for a product name with the exactproductname.net. It was close to top 10 rankings without much work and the only linkbuilding I've done was from a respected Warriors WSO (shall remain nameless so as not to stir up a panic). Has this happened to anyone here? What was the aftermath?

Thanks.

S.

[jusin]

Hi Steve,

You dont need to be panic as, sometime it happens that rankings get dropped but there may be several reasons for this as, it may happen that your blog may requires lot of updates as, the more it gets updates the more it get the traffic.

I will suggest you to do more and more off page optimisation which will serve you thhe best.

Thanks!!

[mikengo]

Steve,

How old is your site? If it's relative new, maybe it got sandboxed?

Mike

[nettech]

Looks like the classic sandbox. Just try and get some links in slowly and 'naturally' to all 3 pages of the blog. Hopefully it'll come out of it soon.

Although sometimes G just likes to show us its power and do a dance. This may be the case but get some good links in to avoid this happenign again.

[Steve23]

Site is about a month and a bit old. I dont see it anywhere in the index at all. That's the sandbox?

S.

[Liam Hamer]

Just to check, when you say you did a site search you mean you did this:-

site:www.yoursite.com

?

If it's not coming up, then it could be that you've been sandboxed. My sites are dancing like crazy at the moment, but always show up with the site search command.

[pluto1]

I could think of this as google sandbox, but this is more than month old site. So, I wonder what actually happened. Are you sure it's dropped? Did you check the geographic targets where it was ranking.

You can use this position checker tool to see your actual rankings in the search engines. You can also check which countries you are ranking where. After you determine your exact position you can start working accordingly.

Although, I think it will show up at it's original position again. Maybe do not touch any meta tags on site. Also check if you are not backlinking from any non quality or spammy sites. One can only guess what might have happened.

[jazbo]

sandbox is a suppression factor in some niches, not a totaly de-listing usually.

Try you site on Google caffeine:

Google

Is it listed?

Do you have webmaster tools account? If so, you should have a message from Google in there if your site has been penalised.

[Steve23]

I do have webmaster tools and when I check the dashboard it says:

"Googlebot has successfully accessed your home page.
Pages from your site are included in Google's index."

There are 2 crawl errors - 1 not found error from October 26th, and a robots.txt issue from the 16th.

No other messages. I'm not sure what else to look for.

S.

[rodie151]

Happens to me all the time, don't panic. Give it a week or two, usually google pick it up again. As long as your not breaking any rules you should be fine.

[itcoll]

this happened to one of my competitor sites - i did not know what went wrong.then i analyzed and i found that the anchor text is same for all the links he got.But after a week the site was indexed again [well,he did not seem to build links with varied anchor text].So it is better to wait for a week and see what happens.when nothing happens try link building with variations in anchor text.

[dburk]

Hi Steve,

As you said, your "little 3 page review blog" is only "about a month or so old". It doesn't sound as if it has had time yet to earn a top ranking. I believe you may have benefited from the temporary boost of the QDF Freshness Factor. After this temporary boost wears off your pages sink to their currently earned rankings.

Now it's time for you to go out and promote traffic and earn a higher ranking. Earn links from related web pages with targeted traffic and you'll be in great shape.

[Steve23]

***UPDATE***

Thanks guys for all of your input....my site came back to the #3 position. I continued my link building routine as if nothing had happened, then BAM! I'll know not to sound the alarms next time it happens

S.

[kkchoon]

Originally Posted by Steve23

***UPDATE***

Thanks guys for all of your input....my site came back to the #3 position. I continued my link building routine as if nothing had happened, then BAM! I'll know not to sound the alarms next time it happens

S.

Just a normal dance, congratulation!

[keenstyle1]

Google dance, people that rely on position placements for a living are on Xanax during these dances!


managed futures

[keenstyle1]

WHY IS MY PAGE RANK METER SHOWING A RANK 10 FOR THIS THREAD?? ANYONE ELSE SEEING THIS THROUGH THE FIREFOX PR ADD ON? I'VE GONE OUT OF THE THREAD THEN BACK INTO IT AND IT KEEPS JUMPING UP TO PR 10 EVERYTIME...........

[keenstyle1]

Yep, PR 10!.. Why?

[Scott Million]

Originally Posted by Steve23

I have analytics installed and had a decent traffic day to my little 3 page review blog. It's actually been doing quite well this month promoting a CPA offer and it's about a month or so old. Then early this morning I decided to check up on my rankings and couldnt find my site anywhere in google. I even did a site search and turned up 0 results. The site is optimized for a product name with the exactproductname.net. It was close to top 10 rankings without much work and the only linkbuilding I've done was from a respected Warriors WSO (shall remain nameless so as not to stir up a panic). Has this happened to anyone here? What was the aftermath?

Thanks.

S.

I don't think Google is a big fan of review or affiliate conduit sites.

I had a friend who had many, many sites deindexed all in the same day. They were product review sites in all sorts of niches...

The only thing that tied them together? Google Analytics... watchout...

[kkchoon]

Originally Posted by Scott Million

I don't think Google is a big fan of review or affiliate conduit sites.

I had a friend who had many, many sites deindexed all in the same day. They were product review sites in all sorts of niches...

The only thing that tied them together? Google Analytics... watchout...

I had a different view...

Google hate people taking up their result page with no added value, that's why Google don't want these type of pages on their site, even you pay for it!

Try improve the site content and add value to Google search result, see if this helps?

[keenstyle1]

His sites back on! # 3, he's good now

[Scott Million]

Originally Posted by kkchoon

I had a different view...

Google hate people taking up their result page with no added value, that's why Google don't want these type of pages on their site, even you pay for it!

Try improve the site content and add value to Google search result, see if this helps?

I've never had issues, but I'll pass it on