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Google Webmaster; did my website just get issued a death sentence?

by Look4VGames
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Well Alright ive been posting alot on the forums for help latley, hope its not getting annoying but i really want to get into IM. My website was doing great, i was finally starting to rank on keywords in search engines but about 2 weeks ago i opened a google webmasters account and sumbmitted my Site map. After a day i had about 2500 Pages Indexed on google, i check back a week later and only 1500 are indexed so thats a 1000 drop i was surprised but didnt take action. Came back today only 645 were indexed, this is when i started to look for help on the issue. When i went to refresh my Webmasters account, well my indexed pages changed yet again. 0 indexed pages, no messages from google, no headsup nothing. What can i do to find out what happened, did google ban my site? I will provide as much information as possible when asked but i really dont know what to say right now.
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  • Profile picture of the author Krieger
    Simple, after the first look, G considers your site spammy and not worth keeping in search results.
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  • Profile picture of the author Look4VGames
    Ok, i really dont know how my site is considered spammy compared to millions of other indexed sites about making money online? I update the website nearly Every day with unique Niche related articles and information.
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  • Profile picture of the author Krieger
    Post the URL and maybe someone can tell you what's wrong.

    Asking what's wrong with your site without showing it is like asking someone to fix your car without seeing it.
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    • Profile picture of the author Look4VGames
      Originally Posted by Krieger View Post

      Post the URL and maybe someone can tell you what's wrong.

      Asking what's wrong with your site without showing it is like asking someone to fix your car without seeing it.

      sorry about that Look4VGames.com
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      • Profile picture of the author AllanWard
        When I do site:Look4VGames.com in google I get 912 pages showing.
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        • Profile picture of the author Look4VGames
          I did say my site was in the search results when i did site:Look4VGames.com but every keyword i was ranking for is immediately gone and Webmasters is showing the following.


          Originally Posted by AllanWard View Post

          When I do site:Look4VGames.com in google I get 912 pages showing.
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  • Profile picture of the author Jacob Martus
    Originally Posted by Look4VGames View Post

    Well Alright ive been posting alot on the forums for help latley, hope its not getting annoying but i really want to get into IM. My website was doing great, i was finally starting to rank on keywords in search engines but about 2 weeks ago i opened a google webmasters account and sumbmitted my Site map. After a day i had about 2500 Pages Indexed on google, i check back a week later and only 1500 are indexed so thats a 1000 drop i was surprised but didnt take action. Came back today only 645 were indexed, this is when i started to look for help on the issue. When i went to refresh my Webmasters account, well my indexed pages changed yet again. 0 indexed pages, no messages from google, no headsup nothing. What can i do to find out what happened, did google ban my site? I will provide as much information as possible when asked but i really dont know what to say right now.
    Webmaster tools will sometimes show 0 pages indexed even when there are many more than that actually indexed. This guy telling you that Google thinks your site is spammy is way off base.

    Do a site search to find out what pages on your site are indexed. A site search looks like this:

    site:www.yourwebsite.com

    Just like that, except replace yourwebsite with your website's url.
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    • Profile picture of the author Look4VGames
      My site does still show up but Keywords that i was ranked on are gone entirely. Also my website is Look4VGames.com Sorry for not posting it.

      Originally Posted by Jacob Martus View Post

      Webmaster tools will sometimes show 0 pages indexed even when there are many more than that actually indexed. This guy telling you that Google thinks your site is spammy is way off base.

      Do a site search to find out what pages on your site are indexed. A site search looks like this:

      site:www.yourwebsite.com

      Just like that, except replace yourwebsite with your website's url.
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  • Profile picture of the author terrapurus
    site:Look4VGames.com

    Search gives me 955 indexed pages.

    LOL ... hit pages 7 ... results now say 910. Back to page 1 ... 955.
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  • Profile picture of the author Krieger
    Well don't sweat it then. The site doesn't look that bad and G WM tools usually also shows me a lot fewer URLs in index than what I actually see in search. Although I've never seen it go to 0. Maybe just a temp glitch? But if your site shows up in search then that's what really counts, right?

    Otherwise, the only thing I can think of is duplicate content. Where do you get your product database from? Is it just reposting someone else's stuff verbatim? Some white-label game store? If so, there may already be 100 other guys offering exactly the same pages. G doesn't like that.

    Besides that, there are a few on-site SEO things you can def do better, like having meta descriptions tags filled in on product pages, using a clean CSS layout instead of all tables, giving images proper alt tags, making your product titles H1 instead of H3,... but none of that should kick you out of the index.

    Like I said, as long as you show up in search, I wouldn't sweat it.
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  • Profile picture of the author Look4VGames
    I am currently in the process of updatng all 2500 pages with seo descriptions and tags. I don't know what gogle is smoking but overnight I went from not ranked to rank 1 in a keyword I didn't even optamie for that gets 500,000 searchers a month? What the hell googe
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