Homepage Deindexed but inner oages still indexed?? Help!!!

[gabwilliams]

Hi guys,
very strange.
Have just checked on a small bunch of websites I have and they have all just dropped to PR N/A and the homepages have been deindexed from Google when I do the search site:domain.com

HOWEVER, the inner pages are still there when I do the site:domain.com search ??
This would show that Google hasnt deindexed or cancelled the websites from the search, however the homepages are blocked ??

Any advice would be great here - I have been googling this all evening and Im coming up with more questions than answers.

[dminorfmajor]

I've never seen or heard of this happening. I'm curious if anyone has had experience with this. I've had sites deindexed but I never tried site:site.com/innerpage. I wonder if this actually happens pretty often...

[gabwilliams]

Desperate for some advice here?? site:domain.com doesnt show the homepage at all, just the inner pages.
Also, PR has gone!!

[solado]

You never know it could be one of Google's weird processes, it could even be ranking your homepage. I would give it 24 hours then panic if it isn't resolved

[Yeehaw]

This happend to me once. Took a couple weeks and it came back, very weird though.

[gabwilliams]

Originally Posted by Yeehaw

This happend to me once. Took a couple weeks and it came back, very weird though.

Hi Yeehaw,
did you find a way of speeding up the process. Did you add a robots.txt file??
Searching Google like mad here but all I seem to get is questions and no answers.
Has anyone else had any experience here - is this a penalization by Google??

[GuerrillaIM]

First step is to look in Google webmaster tools. This can often tell you why you have been de-indexed.

[eurekapsycrille]

Don't whine about it. As long as your other pages are still there, you will get your homepage back to SERP. And you must not get worry about it because users will not look for your homepage surely if they are looking for something. Right?

So just wait. As I've said a while ago, as long as your pages are still indexed, your homepage will get back on it's feet IMO.

[GuerrillaIM]

Originally Posted by eurekapsycrille

Don't whine about it. As long as your other pages are still there, you will get your homepage back to SERP. And you must not get worry about it because users will not look for your homepage surely if they are looking for something. Right?

So just wait. As I've said a while ago, as long as your pages are still indexed, your homepage will get back on it's feet IMO.

Bad advice.

Check GWMT. This can happen because your hosts DNS is not configured properly (you would be surprised at the big name hosts that this happens to regularly).

Usually when I see this behaviour happen it is due to some networking issue.

[strategic seo services]

Originally Posted by gabwilliams

Hi guys,
very strange.
Have just checked on a small bunch of websites I have and they have all just dropped to PR N/A and the homepages have been deindexed from Google when I do the search site:domain.com

HOWEVER, the inner pages are still there when I do the site:domain.com search ??
This would show that Google hasnt deindexed or cancelled the websites from the search, however the homepages are blocked ??

Any advice would be great here - I have been googling this all evening and Im coming up with more questions than answers.

How long has this been going on for? Also, are your websites very new?

[eurekapsycrille]

Originally Posted by GuerrillaIM

Bad advice.

Check GWMT. This can happen because your hosts DNS is not configured properly (you would be surprised at the big name hosts that this happens to regularly).

Usually when I see this behaviour happen it is due to some networking issue.

Other details sir?

[RevSEO]

Were you selling links? Did you interlink all of your sites?

Chances are its a penalty and you've been deindexed for some type of link scheme. I've seen this before. Your internal pages weren't affected since they likely don't have any PR and weren't linking to eachother like your homepages were.

[gearmonkey]

Have you built any backlinks to your inner pages?

[Nicky Papers]

Originally Posted by gearmonkey

Have you built any backlinks to your inner pages?

Also, what types of links have you built in the past for these sites and is this "small bunch" of sites that you have all on the same IP? Are these datafeed sites?

Your site IS NOT deindexed as it's still ranking for deep pages. Consider it "in the penalty box" for the time being.

Are any of the sites ranking for its own name? (when spelled out with spaces) If so, what's the ranking URL?

10 Factors To Be Considered:

1) Thin content on your homepage.

2) Thin content (in general) relative to your niche and competition.

3) A large percent of above the fold content might be images, links to internal pages, affiliate links, or ads. Not good.

4) Running pop-unders or pop-overs to build a list? Disable that stuff.

5) Do you have "rel=canonical" features enabled? Try disabling that.

6) Add, change, or vary your homepage content. Immediately!

7) Add (or scheduled) new content regularly to continue building the index of the site out.

8) Remove or cloak any affiliate links you may be running on your site, especially your home page. If your site is in Wordpress, use Pretty Links.

9) How many OBL's are you running on your home page? Try reducing that number if possible.

10) Are these site interlinked? Are they blogroll, footer, or sitewide type links? If so, remove them.

Remember, the sites are not de-indexed. A few things just need to be updated and changed so they will continue to run strong long term. You won’t last long if the intent to monetize is too aggressive and the content is thin. Good luck!

[John Romaine]

Would it be because you are SELLING LINKS?

[singaporeasiaco]

Hi there, I have this problem too..

Homepage as been deindexed when i check with "site:"
PR has also been reduced to ZERO.

@GabWilliams -- may i know how long it took for your homepage to get reindexed?

Description of my Issues here ;/
warriorforum[dot]com/adsense-ppc-seo-discussion-forum/548040-please-help-homepage-deindexed-inner-pages-ranking-google-pagerank-gone.html

[AndyBlackSEO]

Double check your header info! Check for 'nofollow, noindex'. A template might have been changed or something. Happened to me once and this is extactly what happened.

[Steve Holmes]

As already mentioned, you need to look in your Google webmaster - which I'm hoping you have set up.

[diyakapoor]

Check the content of your website for duplicacy and make sure that your website is not getting any spam links

[singaporeasiaco]

Originally Posted by Steve Holmes

As already mentioned, you need to look in your Google webmaster - which I'm hoping you have set up.

Hi Steve, thanks for the reply, may I know what i should look out for within Google Webmaster tools? I'm a real newbie and i hope you don't mind explaining a little more about GWT. Thank you!!

[singaporeasiaco]

Originally Posted by AndyBlackSEO

Double check your header info! Check for 'nofollow, noindex'. A template might have been changed or something. Happened to me once and this is extactly what happened.

I checked for it, and i saw a "noindex" tag.. but i cant remember what it was.
I removed my "Easy No Index No follow" plugin and it was gone. Not sure if that was the reason. Homepage still missing. Sigh.

[singaporeasiaco]

Does the below code have to do with anything?
I fetched my site as a Google bot from a site and found this:


Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0

[gittar1122]

Instead of doing site:domain.com, try info:yourdomain in Google. If it show your homepage then it means your site is not deindexed.

[singaporeasiaco]

Originally Posted by gittar1122

Instead of doing site:domain.com, try info:yourdomain in Google. If it show your homepage then it means your site is not deindexed.

Omigod. Omigod.Omigod.

site:mydomain.com --> shows 52 pages
info:mydomain.com --> shows ZERO page.

But when i check
info:mydomain.com/innerpageURL --> it shows that particular page.

Can you tell me what's happening here!??
Is ONLY my homepage deindexed?

[gittar1122]

Can you PM me your domain, if you trust.

[singaporeasiaco]

Originally Posted by gittar1122

Can you PM me your domain, if you trust.

Yeah i trust.
I can't post a PM as i've yet to reach 50posts!
but i'd really appreciate it if you could help me take a look at it. sigh.

my domain is (remove spaces please).. just don't want google to index this
Xxxxxxxxx [DOT] c o m

[gittar1122]

Homepage deindexed, rest 52 pages indexed so far. Have you tried some advertisement (adword)?

I am getting this ad:

• Removed

Backlink growth is normal:
Ahrefs: 134 backlinks
MajesticSEO: 362 backlinks


Have you tried any automated link building technique in past weeks???

[AndyBlackSEO]

If your robots tag says nodollow, noindex then that needs changing as that would cause the problem you describe. Also the same for a Google tag etc. They should read 'follow, index'.

You would then wait for Google to crawl your homepage again. Then it would re-appear with no loss to rankings.

[AndyBlackSEO]

If your robots tag says nodollow, noindex then that needs changing as that would cause the problem you describe. Also the same for a Google tag etc. They should read 'follow, index'.

You would then wait for Google to crawl your homepage again. Then it would re-appear with no loss to rankings.

[singaporeasiaco]

Originally Posted by gittar1122

Homepage deindexed, rest 52 pages indexed so far. Have you tried some advertisement (adword)?

I am getting this ad:
[LIST]
Google Ad was here
Backlink growth is normal:
Ahrefs: 134 backlinks
MajesticSEO: 362 backlinks
Have you tried any automated link building technique in past weeks???

Yes, that's my ad! ermmm, would you mind removing my URL from your post? wouldn't want anyone to see it! Thank you for that

May I know how is AdWords relevant?

I went to Fiverr and bought
- a 1200 + 2500 of article submissions (not sure how many were indexed)
- one web2.0 linkwheel

Most of my site backlinks BEFORE these are via BMR

NOTE: I had a wordpress plugin called "Easy No Index No Follow" which i deleted as it was leaving either a noindex or nofollow tag on my viewsource. Do you think that was it? I have already removed it and can't remember what it looked it. I remember it was near a word "Meta", and near it was a "link is broken. link is broken"... i got a little scared and deleted the plugin.

[singaporeasiaco]

Originally Posted by AndyBlackSEO

If your robots tag says nodollow, noindex then that needs changing as that would cause the problem you describe. Also the same for a Google tag etc. They should read 'follow, index'.

You would then wait for Google to crawl your homepage again. Then it would re-appear with no loss to rankings.

This is what my Robot.Txt says, can you tell if anything is wrong?
User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-includes/
Sitemap: http://www.XXXXXXXXXXX.com/sitemap.xml.gz
replace XXXXXXXXX with --> e m c e e m e l v i n


is it normal for BOTH google and bing to deindex my Homepage at the same time?

Because my rankings in Bing have lowered drastically too. All not within Top500

[Mike Anthony]

Sounds like you have screwed up your home page not a deindexing

[singaporeasiaco]

Originally Posted by Mike Anthony

Sounds like you have screwed up your home page not a deindexing

Hi Mike, thanks loads for replying to this thread

Sigh, would u know whats wrong with my Homepage then?
if not, would you know what sort of Specialist I could look for to have it checked? E.g. Wordpress specialist, SEO specialist?

[gittar1122]

Removed your site URL from post.

BMR...ahh

BMR sites facing tough time from last week. You can see a lot of people complaining lower rankings for their sites using BMR. Your might be the one.

I checked your Robots.txt and there is nothing special which can stop search engine crawler to not to index it.

Thanks

Originally Posted by singaporeasiaco

Yes, that's my ad! ermmm, would you mind removing my URL from your post? wouldn't want anyone to see it! Thank you for that

May I know how is AdWords relevant?

I went to Fiverr and bought
- a 1200 + 2500 of article submissions (not sure how many were indexed)
- one web2.0 linkwheel

Most of my site backlinks BEFORE these are via BMR

NOTE: I had a wordpress plugin called "Easy No Index No Follow" which i deleted as it was leaving either a noindex or nofollow tag on my viewsource. Do you think that was it? I have already removed it and can't remember what it looked it. I remember it was near a word "Meta", and near it was a "link is broken. link is broken"... i got a little scared and deleted the plugin.

[singaporeasiaco]

Originally Posted by gittar1122

Removed your site URL from post.

BMR...ahh
BMR sites facing tough time from last week. You can see a lot of people complaining lower rankings for their sites using BMR. Your might be the one.
I checked your Robots.txt and there is nothing special which can stop search engine crawler to not to index it. Thanks

Thanks for checking my ROBOT.TXT for me!
Ermmm, could u remove my ad too? My keywords are in there! Haha
I'd really appreciate it!

Hmm, can't be BMR.
I'm powering 2 sites with BMR.. on the same shared hosting
This one is down, the other isn't.

Sigh, is there anyone I can pay to check my site?
Or should I sit this one out? :/

[gittar1122]

ok, removed completely. Check on forum for BMR threads and you will notice what happened with BMR and they closed their subscriptions.

Originally Posted by singaporeasiaco

Thanks for checking my ROBOT.TXT for me!
Ermmm, could u remove my ad too? My keywords are in there! Haha
I'd really appreciate it!

Hmm, can't be BMR.
I'm powering 2 sites with BMR.. on the same shared hosting
This one is down, the other isn't.

Sigh, is there anyone I can pay to check my site?
Or should I sit this one out? :/

[Cataclysm1987]

Originally Posted by RevSEO

Were you selling links? Did you interlink all of your sites?

Chances are its a penalty and you've been deindexed for some type of link scheme. I've seen this before. Your internal pages weren't affected since they likely don't have any PR and weren't linking to eachother like your homepages were.

A link scheme? You mean like a contextual home page backlink network designed to increase rankings...?

[singaporeasiaco]

Not sure if the below is the main reason why my Homepage was de-indexed by Google and sunk beyond Top500 by Bing...

Do you think my plugin "Easy Noindex and Nofollow" might have caused this?
I have 2 websites that use this plugin.. but for the site in question, it seems to have "leaked" some code into my <Header>.. Do you think this was the problem? I've removed it already

</style>
<!--Add by easy-noindex-nofollow--><meta name="robots" content="noindex, follow"/>
<style type="text/css">.broken_link, a.broken_link {
	text-decoration: line-through;
}</style>

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[singaporeasiaco]

Originally Posted by AndyBlackSEO

Double check your header info! Check for 'nofollow, noindex'. A template might have been changed or something. Happened to me once and this is extactly what happened.

Hi AndyBlackSEO -- do you think that this tag caused my Homepage deindexing?

It was "leaked" into my source code by a plugin! what do you think?

</style>
<!--Add by easy-noindex-nofollow--><meta name="robots" content="noindex, follow"/>
<style type="text/css">.broken_link, a.broken_link {
	text-decoration: line-through;
}</style>

[singaporeasiaco]

PageRank bounced back from 0 to 2!
Submitted my sitemap via Webmastertools (status is pending)
Pinged my site via pingomatic n pingoat

I wonder how long it'll take for it to be indexed :/

[travin]

ive nver heard of this happeneing before

[singaporeasiaco]

Originally Posted by travin

ive nver heard of this happeneing before

Never heard of what before?
P.s. welcome to the warriorforum! it's my first few days here too!

[gittar1122]

Does your site remained down in last days??? or redirected to another domain???

Originally Posted by singaporeasiaco

Never heard of what before?
P.s. welcome to the warriorforum! it's my first few days here too!

[Blocked]

Ask to google

[singaporeasiaco]

Originally Posted by gittar1122

Does your site remained down in last days??? or redirected to another domain???

Hi Gittar,

It's not down, just the homepage isn't indexed at the moment
Not redirected. Why?

[gittar1122]

Have you removed files of that plugin?

Originally Posted by singaporeasiaco

Hi Gittar,

It's not down, just the homepage isn't indexed at the moment
Not redirected. Why?

[singaporeasiaco]

Originally Posted by gittar1122

Have you removed files of that plugin?

PAGE IS REINDEXED!!!! YAYYYYYY!!!!
Some of the keywords have not returned to original position yet.
Will report on their movement tomorrow ))

[gittar1122]

That's good news, best of luck

Originally Posted by singaporeasiaco

PAGE IS REINDEXED!!!! YAYYYYYY!!!!
Some of the keywords have not returned to original position yet.
Will report on their movement tomorrow ))

[singaporeasiaco]

Website is now back at Original rankings!! )))

[mdsurf]

de indexing hmmmmmmm i doubt it