Help! My Site Disappeared Off Google's Radar!

Snow_Predator · 06-07-2011, 02:24 AM

I bought an aged domain some 6 months ago (aged by about 2 years or so) and started writing unique articles reviewing a certain line of Amazon products.

This is a perfectly legitimate site, with pure and decent info for my visitors. The only thing that I do which isn't perfectly white-hat is build forum-backlinks, but I do this with ALL my sites and my other sites are all fine.

Just last night my whole site disappeared off Google's radar. The pages are all indexed, but they aren't ranking for my keywords, or any keywords for that matter.

Now I would understand that it could be the Google dance if it were just a few pages doing this, but it's my whole site! I've added recent backlinks to 6 out of 10 pages on the site, and instead of those 6 pages disappearing, the whole site has gone!

The only new thing I did was to add a disclosure policy last night. Webmaster tools shows no crawl errors.

So what's wrong and what do I do? o_O

Ernie Lonardo · 06-07-2011, 02:25 AM

Just relax and give it more time. I noticed many of my sub pages dropped a little too and ive been backlinking them lately and they all target non competitive terms.

The only thing we can do is wait it out.

Emma Francina · 06-07-2011, 02:38 AM

Wait for some time .It may be due to any technical problems happened in server.

CPA Andrew · 06-07-2011, 02:43 AM

Search engines are doing some major ranking changes now.. This could be the problem.

dp40oz · 06-07-2011, 07:52 AM

I had my highest earning website completely disappear also last night. Its a horrible feeling. I guess we can only hope its temporary but who knows.

retsek · 06-07-2011, 08:18 AM

heh ..one of my sites which disappeared 4 weeks ago has now returned to Page 1 today. I had accidentally blasted it with a ton of links in one day.

Just give it time.
In the meantime, don't build any more cheap links. Try Web2.0 sites, article directories and some high pr blog comments.

eppingvonryan · 06-07-2011, 08:26 AM

My main money earning site disappeared too!! three years on the first page then nothing....Now thats not a regular Google dance!!

bretski · 06-07-2011, 08:32 AM

yep... there were some major algorithm changes lately that have mixed things up a bit. Just relax... one way to look at it is either it will come back or it won't. There's not a whole lot you can do other than wait it out, continue to do what you've been doing and see where everyone lands.

FrFai · 06-07-2011, 08:57 AM

Same thing happened with my site. I checked 2 days ago, my site was positioned at #1. I checked it today and it's on #11. I hope its temporary.

Michael Mayo · 06-07-2011, 09:11 AM

Here are the stats to one of my sites for the past 6 months.
It should give you a good ideal of what's happening with your site.

I've not been SEOing the site since the last algi change was made a few months ago.

Hope that Helps,
Have a Great Day!
Michael

Snow_Predator · 06-07-2011, 02:58 PM

Thanks all for your replies. As selfish as it seems, it's good to hear I'm not the only one this has happened to. The flip side however is that some of my other sites, one of which had disappeared off Google's radar for a whole year! has just started to rank, and this is after I stopped linking to it for over 9 months!

So yeh, some big changes it seems.

bansal · 06-07-2011, 03:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Snow_Predator

Thanks all for your replies. As selfish as it seems, it's good to hear I'm not the only one this has happened to. The flip side however is that some of my other sites, one of which had disappeared off Google's radar for a whole year! has just started to rank, and this is after I stopped linking to it for over 9 months!

So yeh, some big changes it seems.

Yep same exact thing happened to me. I was convinced that I got a slap for being a thin affiliate (site was somewhat thin but had no duplicate or spammy content), but now I am not so sure. For my main keyword I went from #5 to page 56 last night, and now it dropped a little more to page 57 (like exiling me to page 56 wasn't bad enough lol). Seems that they did some kind of algorithmic update, wonder if it is targeting Amazon sites in particular. Let's hope it's temporary, for both of us...

poolhall · 06-07-2011, 04:58 PM

Similar thing happened to me today. PR 5 website with 2k visitors per day dropped to last page of serps overnight. Now getting 100 visitors per day. $500 per day lost. This sucks.

Wonder is its something bigger going on if lots of sites saw changes.

PeterPimmel · 06-07-2011, 05:12 PM

same thing happened to one of our clients a few days ago. we managed to get it back with some high pr links apparently. of course we can't be sure if it was a shift in the serps, but at least our clients site is back to page 1, although a few places bellow where it usually was.

dp40oz · 06-07-2011, 05:50 PM

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Originally Posted by poolhall

Similar thing happened to me today. PR 5 website with 2k visitors per day dropped to last page of serps overnight. Now getting 100 visitors per day. $500 per day lost. This sucks.

Wonder is its something bigger going on if lots of sites saw changes.

Ouch! My biggest earner is down for the count after last night also but $500 a day is a tough pill to swallow.

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Snow_Predator HyperActive Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 457 Thanks: 303 Thanked 79 Times in 52 Posts	Help! My Site Disappeared Off Google's Radar! I bought an aged domain some 6 months ago (aged by about 2 years or so) and started writing unique articles reviewing a certain line of Amazon products. This is a perfectly legitimate site, with pure and decent info for my visitors. The only thing that I do which isn't perfectly white-hat is build forum-backlinks, but I do this with ALL my sites and my other sites are all fine. Just last night my whole site disappeared off Google's radar. The pages are all indexed, but they aren't ranking for my keywords, or any keywords for that matter. Now I would understand that it could be the Google dance if it were just a few pages doing this, but it's my whole site! I've added recent backlinks to 6 out of 10 pages on the site, and instead of those 6 pages disappearing, the whole site has gone! The only new thing I did was to add a disclosure policy last night. Webmaster tools shows no crawl errors. So what's wrong and what do I do? o_O

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Snow_Predator HyperActive Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 457 Thanks: 303 Thanked 79 Times in 52 Posts	Re: Help! My Site Disappeared Off Google's Radar! Thanks all for your replies. As selfish as it seems, it's good to hear I'm not the only one this has happened to. The flip side however is that some of my other sites, one of which had disappeared off Google's radar for a whole year! has just started to rank, and this is after I stopped linking to it for over 9 months! So yeh, some big changes it seems.

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poolhall Warrior Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 18 Thanks: 0 Thanked 6 Times in 5 Posts	Re: Help! My Site Disappeared Off Google's Radar! Similar thing happened to me today. PR 5 website with 2k visitors per day dropped to last page of serps overnight. Now getting 100 visitors per day. $500 per day lost. This sucks. Wonder is its something bigger going on if lots of sites saw changes.

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PeterPimmel Warrior Member Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: Netherlands Posts: 4 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: Help! My Site Disappeared Off Google's Radar! same thing happened to one of our clients a few days ago. we managed to get it back with some high pr links apparently. of course we can't be sure if it was a shift in the serps, but at least our clients site is back to page 1, although a few places bellow where it usually was.