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deindexed

by hotftuna
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Have a popular site that ranks #1 for a great phrase and earning good money. The site is gone.. no Google cache or anything.

I have owned this site for many years and I do not buy links to it. It gets links naturally due to some advertising and popularity. Only recent change to the site was a tweak to the inside page structure. This change reduced the number of pages and made existing pages longer.

It would be easy to change the site back to the previous structure but I don't think that that alone would get me re-listed.

I would very much appreciate some advice on this matter.
#deindexed
  • Profile picture of the author sweetheater
    Did you make any massive change to your existing link structure ? Did you check google webmasters and saw how many pages are indexed and if there are any technical errors ??
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  • Profile picture of the author hotftuna
    Yes I changed the link structure. The site is a web directory, not a WP blog. It would take me a minute to change it back but I don't think that that would be enough to get back into Google.
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    • Profile picture of the author Talen
      Originally Posted by hotftuna View Post

      Yes I changed the link structure. The site is a web directory, not a WP blog. It would take me a minute to change it back but I don't think that that would be enough to get back into Google.
      If you didn't employ redirects when you changed the link structure then that's your problem...either use 301 redirects now or change back to the original link structure.
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      • Profile picture of the author hotftuna
        Originally Posted by Talen View Post

        If you didn't employ redirects when you changed the link structure then that's your problem...either use 301 redirects now or change back to the original link structure.
        I will change it back to the original structure. That alone will not get me back in. Fairly sure that I need to go to Google and ask them to consider re-indexing the site.

        Anyone here have experience asking Google to reindex?
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        • Profile picture of the author Josh MacDonald
          Originally Posted by hotftuna View Post

          I will change it back to the original structure. That alone will not get me back in. Fairly sure that I need to go to Google and ask them to consider re-indexing the site.

          Anyone here have experience asking Google to reindex?
          Are you joking? You really think they will care?
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  • Profile picture of the author rahmanpaidar
    Are you talking about the sites in your sig?
    They are indexed.

    You have possibly just lost your pr according to your last changes
    in urls and internal structures.
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    طراحی سایت، طراحی وب سایت
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    • Profile picture of the author hotftuna
      Originally Posted by rahmanpaidar View Post

      Are you talking about the sites in your sig?
      They are indexed.

      You have possibly just lost your pr according to your last changes
      in urls and internal structures.
      It is another site.
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  • Profile picture of the author hotftuna
    Link structure changed back.

    My next step will be to install Google Webmaster's Tool. I hate installing this due to one bad experience but I don't think I have much choice in this particular situation.
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  • Profile picture of the author hotftuna
    I don't think that they will care at all. Still have to do what I can to improve the situation.
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