I added custom google search and site has disappeared

I had posted in the general topic area but I believe this is the place I should be asking this sort of question.


I started a site a few months ago, a small website based on wordpress, the niche really only gets about 50 visitors a day and I have both google adsense and amazon astore running on it, the aim of the site is that it will pay for itself so that I can provide the information.

The site was ranking top 5 for a number of keyword phrases related to this topic.

Pretty much all of the trafic comes from google searches.

A couple of nights ago I was experimenting with different search boxes on my wordpress theme and I decided to use google adsense custom search. When I went back today to check how the site was ranking against a few new keywords it was gone, my site no longer ranks at all for any of the keywords.

If I use site: google brings up all the indexed pages, so it looks like it has removed my ranking rather than deindexed (is that a word?) me.

I was thinking that the reason this has happened is because the searchresults page for the custom search box was showing up in my navigation, I have rewritten the function to prevent this from happening.

The reason I am asking about this site is to check if there is anything I can do, there isn't much point in me constantly adding infromation to this site if no-one is going to be able to find it.