From page 1 on google to nowhere suddenly!

[borgwarrior]

I'm a noobie here so wondering if more experience practitioners here can help.

After 2 months I manage to get my niche product site onto position 5 on google page one for 2 weeks. OK its not actually making money but as its my first site I was treating it as a learning process and was quite encouraged to see my site in that position.

However after doing a cpanel redirect on another subdomain that shares with that site, my position has just disappeared of the face of the internet!!!

This other site shared the same subject so am I being penalised by Google?
I have since taken it off line but my original site still nowhere to be found on google although the URL is working fine.

Does anyone have any explanations? How do I know if I'm being penalised by google?

Also google webmaster tool has verified it but cannot bring up any data.

thanks in advance

[yukon]

What do you see when you do a site:www.domain.com ?

[socialbookmark]

It can be happened for some websites and its possible that your website to be returned to previous position. And in this case its no problem but if this situation continues, its possible that your website to be penalized and i think the reason is your backlinks. You should check what you did in these two weeks more carefully. Maybe one of them hurts your ranking. You should find and fix the reason.

[borgwarrior]

You mean in type site: domain.com etc into yahoo?

Some backlinks are showing but i notice someone copied one of my articles and published it on their website.

Some interesting info.

This site was on page 3 or 4 for a while and i got frustrated so i did some more keyword research and found a similar one that according to market samurai has less competition.

So i created a site targetting this keyword, AND then change the keyword anchor links on some of my articles to point to this (they pointed to my first site originally)

A day after this, my Original site shot to 1st page! which surprised me.
(I was expecting the 2nd site to go up) This is around 2 weeks ago.

[yukon]

Try this Google search site:www.warriorforum.com only use your sites name instead of warriorforum.

Does that search show your site still exist in Google search?

[Social-Media-Marketing]

Why don't you provide a link to both sites and explain your situation more clearly. My guess... you screwed up the redirect.

You are aware that if your 301 redirect URL A to URL B that you're telling Google to REMOVE URL A from their index, and transfer credit for all inbound links pointing to URL A over to URL B? And that if the content on URLB does not exactly match the content that was previously at URL then your rankings will likely change (and the changes can be drastic).

[borgwarrior]

Originally Posted by yukon

Try this Google search ....only use your sites name instead of warriorforum.

Does that search show your site still exist in Google search?

Yeah, it still list my homepage and 2 other pages from the site...

thanks for your patience

SMM, the redirect was for another unrelated site to my blog. Just click a redirect function on cpanel to test, but didn't work anyway...

I thought maybe its on the same server host/shared harddisk it may affect it but seems stupid thinking about it now.

i taken that site off now anyway.

thanks