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Possible Causes For A Page Disappearing From Google?

by Kris Turner
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I had an internal page ranking in page 2 of Google for the last few weeks. Today, all of a sudden, it's not ranking anywhere. I haven't changed anything on the page and haven't done anything I shouldn't.

Why might it have vanished, and is it likely to reappear just as suddenly, or is there something I should do to get it back?

I've never had a page vanish like this before.
#disappearing #google #page
  • Profile picture of the author cjed2061
    I've had that happen before. I guess Google is like that. It should come back in a few days or so. Mine did anyway and usually the ranking is higher.
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  • Profile picture of the author Kris Turner
    I suppose that's the game you play with SEO. You get a page ranking well, find a brand new stream of steady traffic, and bam, it's shut off like a light switch because someone at Google moved a decimal point one place.
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    • Profile picture of the author bretski
      I've had a large portion of my site just go "poof" about two weeks ago. There area few more posts out there from folks that have had the same thing happen. I've been told that it's just the Google dance and that everything will even out eventually. I just know that I hate it when my site was ranking really well and now my pages are being outranked by absolute trash warez sites and stuff like that.

      Hang in there...
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  • Profile picture of the author innocent07
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    Originally Posted by Alex Taylor View Post

    I had an internal page ranking in page 2 of Google for the last few weeks. Today, all of a sudden, it's not ranking anywhere. I haven't changed anything on the page and haven't done anything I shouldn't.

    Why might it have vanished, and is it likely to reappear just as suddenly, or is there something I should do to get it back?

    I've never had a page vanish like this before.
    that's google for you.

    One day you can be in the top 10, the next day you can be removed from all listings
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  • Profile picture of the author joe.marsh
    I had the same thing happen in the past.

    As others said it typically shows back up.

    Give it sometime.

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  • Profile picture of the author sezerb
    I've had 90 percent of my site disappear from the Google index. Word on the street is Google is trying to push the new infrastructure (caffeine) to their data centers without too much success so far. I'm seeing some whacky numbers at the moment.
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  • Profile picture of the author Kris Turner
    I'm glad to hear I'm not alone, and that the page should come back sometime. I worked hard to get that little sucker ranking so high! And yeah, it's annoying when you see crazy-bad sites outranking you!
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  • Profile picture of the author John Atkins
    It happened to me as well, and not just one time. Most of my sites
    came back after disappearing, but some others did not.

    So you can't really know what's going to happen next. Hope your site
    goes back up mate, and hopefully even higher.
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  • Profile picture of the author Kris Turner
    Originally Posted by DesmondTan View Post

    maybe it got banned
    That seems unlikely, because several other pages in the site are still ranking high for other keywords.
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    • Profile picture of the author J Bold
      Originally Posted by Alex Taylor View Post

      That seems unlikely, because several other pages in the site are still ranking high for other keywords.
      I concur. Unlikely.

      Must be the Google dance, I would hazard a guess. But only from listening to people more experienced than me in SEO!
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