More and more of my sites disappearing... (but still indexed?)

[mooble]

So over the past month and a half i've had sites continually drop off the google search results but remain indexed. They've been indexed but not showing on search results for almost a month and a half, and many of these sites are old sites having been on page one for 6 months or more.

I really need to know if i'm the only one having this happen to me. I just woke up this morning and again 2 more of my sites disappeared. But none of my sites are "banned' in a sense of being de-indexed. So what does this mean?

I've had a google dance before dropping into the 20+ pages, but these just completely vanish from any and all pages of search results. Its like the main terms for my sites no longer register for them.

Is this some sort of new google ban? What is going on? How the hell do i get these sites back into the search results?

One site which had been gone for 2 months came back for 5 days last week, but its gone again now. What does this all mean? Why disappear for 2 months and come back for 5 days? This surely isn't a ban, is it? Anyone else had this happen with any of their sites? how do you fix it? more content? more links? what the hell? i'm really starting to panic.

Is google going to keep doing this to me until all of my site are gone and i'm broke? I currently have 12 total sites in this "state of being." Good lord.

[iAmNameLess]

A lot of people are reporting the same results.... I have specifically noticed it on a few of my sites in the past...2-3 weeks. I think it is a data roll out, and doubt it is anything to worry about. It probably is the google dance... There are more than a couple data servers and sometimes they need to update their index. I'm not sure how exactly they do it, but when a ton of people are experiencing this, especially on newer sites, it is just the data centers updating.

[mooble]

Originally Posted by iAmNameLess

A lot of people are reporting the same results.... I have specifically noticed it on a few of my sites in the past...2-3 weeks. I think it is a data roll out, and doubt it is anything to worry about. It probably is the google dance... There are more than a couple data servers and sometimes they need to update their index. I'm not sure how exactly they do it, but when a ton of people are experiencing this, especially on newer sites, it is just the data centers updating.

Well if this is true is both good and bad. Good because its not a ban or anything i've done, bad because there's nothing i can do to fix it other than wait. And like i said some of the sites are new and some are very very old. So not sure that makes any difference.

[ElectronPlumber]

I've written a FAQ for this exact question, since it gets asked quite often. Check out http://www.warriorforum.com/adsense-...deindexed.html

[snakeyes]

Check your backlinks are you over optimized for your backlinks?

[mooble]

Originally Posted by ElectronPlumber

I've written a FAQ for this exact question, since it gets asked quite often. Check out http://www.warriorforum.com/adsense-...deindexed.html

I've read that thread, but that is not addressing my problem since my sites are all still indexed.

[ElectronPlumber]

Originally Posted by mooble

I've read that thread, but that is not addressing my problem since my sites are all still indexed.

Did you stop reading before the section about why your site was Sunk? Check out the list. One of these must apply to you. If not, I want to figure it out and add it to the list.

How To Tell If You Were Sunk

If you weren't Deindexed and weren't Penalized but your site's traffic from Google keyword searches has dropped dramatically, your site might have Sunk.
There is no manual action by Google, no removal from the index. But keywords you were previously ranking well for are no longer ranking well. There are MANY reasons why your site may have sunk in the Google rankings, but some of the most frequent are:

• Site Redesign - Internal links count and a site redesign may have removed what Google considers to be "aged" links, to the determent of your rankings
• Technical Errors - Setting your robots.txt by accident to prevent indexing on some inner pages can have a VERY negative effect on your rankings
• Loss of Backlinks - If you rely on a few high value backlinks that suddenly disappear, your rank will drop.
• Loss of Backlink Value - I once had a site of mine linked in an article on the NPR All Tech Considered blog, a PR 7 page. They only update once every few weeks, so for about three months while the article stayed on the front page I had a VERY powerful backlink. My search traffic to that site increased about 25%. Then three months later after the article dropped off the front page, my search traffic dropped back down again. And on the flip side, one of my bigger sites started as a Wordpress.com free site. After a year I wised up and transferred it to my own hosted domain, paying Wordpress.com $12 to redirect everything from my old site to my new site. The next year I decided not to pay the $12 again since I was no longer getting traffic from the redirects. A few weeks later, my search traffic dropped close to 50%! It was no longer getting credit for those nice aged backlinks that were previously redirected. I coughed up the $12 and a few days later my traffic went back to normal.
• Lack of Backlink Growth - If you have been doing lots of backlink building and then suddenly drop off.
• Lack of Fresh Content - Google loves updates and fresh content gives your entire site a boost. Some people call this QDF or "Query Deserves Freshness"
• Competition - Someone is now outranking you.
• Google Update - Like the famed "Google Farmer Update", sometimes Google just changes their algorithm and you can get hit.
• Too Much Duplicate Content, Not Enough Links - I've seen this happen to many autoblog sites. After a few hundred articles without enough backlinks, you'll trigger some math formula where Google gets wise and you'll see search traffic plummet across the board.
• Outbound Link Junk - Too many outbound links can dilute any internal links you have.
• Penalized - Anything from the Penalized or Deindexed list above can cause your site to Sink instead of a harsher penalty.
• Loss of Honeymoon Effect - Google actually gives every new site a chance to be discovered. For the first few months your new site with new content will get a boost in the SERPS (Search Engine Ranking Positions) to give it a chance of being discovered and becoming popular, even when it has no links. When this effect goes away, your rankings will drop.
• Slow Site - Google takes into account site speed and loading times for their algorithms. If you are on a shared server, make sure your sites is optimized for speed as much as possible.

[MikeFriedman]

Originally Posted by snakeyes

Check your backlinks are you over optimized for your backlinks?

What the hell is over optimized?

[mooble]

Originally Posted by MikeFriedman

What the hell is over optimized?

people seem to think that if you use the same anchor text for all your backlinks you will get a penalty. Even though this is one of the many things you could do to screw your competition... i highly doubt that this sort of thing gets a penalty.

[Jason Zalesky]

I currently have a site that has over 11k backlinks that are from 200 plus class C addresses. They range in anchor text etc. My site completly ranks for nothing now except for its domain name. Its still indexed and does not have any penaltys that I know of. Would there be anything that would cause it to be off the face of the map? Its been this way for some time and its being reworked now. I just curious if this is something that I should worry about or do you think new fresh backlinks will cure the problem?