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I have a website that was steadily in some top positions for a number of keywords and completely has dropped out of sight for most of these keywords. This has a site this over a year old and have steadily built backlinks to it. Based on what I read, it seems like the site has been deindexed as I can still find the website by putting in the name but can't find the results for these keywords in at least the first 20 pages of Google (200 individual search results). However, here is the kicker, I can still find some pages listed in the search results in a relatively decent position #11 for one keyword.

My question is what is going on here? Can a site actually have only certain pages be deindexed? (I thought it was an all or nothing type of deal?)

Could a loss of a number of backlinks overnight cause this type of change? I am trying to figure out how this change may have happened as I had previously held steady at these top positions for probably going on a month and a half and for a number of the keywords much longer periods than that? What other factors might be at play here? This is a white hat review site that the only thing that I could think would be questionable would be possibly building up too many backlinks, but even these have been relatively spread out and done without automation.
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  • Profile picture of the author abs007
    Originally Posted by JDSalinger View Post

    I have a website that was steadily in some top positions for a number of keywords and completely has dropped out of sight for most of these keywords. This has a site this over a year old and have steadily built backlinks to it. Based on what I read, it seems like the site has been deindexed as I can still find the website by putting in the name but can't find the results for these keywords in at least the first 20 pages of Google (200 individual search results). However, here is the kicker, I can still find some pages listed in the search results in a relatively decent position #11 for one keyword.

    My question is what is going on here? Can a site actually have only certain pages be deindexed? (I thought it was an all or nothing type of deal?)

    Could a loss of a number of backlinks overnight cause this type of change? I am trying to figure out how this change may have happened as I had previously held steady at these top positions for probably going on a month and a half and for a number of the keywords much longer periods than that? What other factors might be at play here? This is a white hat review site that the only thing that I could think would be questionable would be possibly building up too many backlinks, but even these have been relatively spread out and done without automation.
    Hi building backlinks to quick should not be an issue especially on a year old domain. Loosing backlinks could definatly bee the issue here but not certain. This also happned to me and I just injected my site with high quality backlinks and in a couple of days it bounced back.

    I would recommend you also create a few good quality backlinks and see what happens.

    Can you recall any changes that you made to your site before this happened - such as change of title-description on page contents - or can you recall creating new backlinks or anything of the sort?

    Its hard to say what the issue is but if you rank on for a given keyword and the others have dropped then it maybe the removal of links.

    cheers
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  • Profile picture of the author bgmacaw
    Originally Posted by JDSalinger View Post

    Based on what I read, it seems like the site has been deindexed as I can still find the website by putting in the name but can't find the results for these keywords in at least the first 20 pages of Google (200 individual search results). However, here is the kicker, I can still find some pages listed in the search results in a relatively decent position #11 for one keyword.
    It's not deindexed. Deindexed means that it is not in Google's public index.

    Originally Posted by JDSalinger View Post

    Could a loss of a number of backlinks overnight cause this type of change?
    Yes, especially if the backlinks were stronger ones.
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    • Profile picture of the author Steve Diamond
      If your site is de-indexed it won't appear in the SERPs at all. But the fact that it doesn't appear in the first 200 results or even the first 2,000 results doesn't mean that it's de-indexed.

      There's one sure, easy way to tell. Google site:yourdomain.com. This will return all the pages of your site that Google has in its index as of right now. Simple as that. If this gives you zero results, then your site is in fact de-indexed.

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