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New Microniche Website Deindexed - Normal?

by soup
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Hello,

I recently built a Micro Niche Amazon site. There is lots of fresh content that is unique but for some reason the site has been deindexed.

The site has been active and indexed for just over a week - already made two sales yesterday but today the site is nowhere on the serps. I've built lots of sites in the past and I've never had a site deindexed so I was wondering if this ever happens with new sites and if you think my rankings will eventually returned?

Thanks
#deindexed #microniche #normal #website
  • Profile picture of the author Lares
    Is it deindexed or you just lost your ranking position?
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  • Profile picture of the author imdomination
    Yes, do a search for site:yourwebsite.com and if nothing shows up you have well and truly been deindexed.

    If it is a deindexing, I would honestly just re-create a whole new site, especially if you've only had it for a week and start again from scratch. If it's still indexed, add quality content and links and wait it out, as it might come back eventually.
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    • Profile picture of the author soup
      Hey Guys,

      Yes it's definitely not there I've used the site command and it's disappeared completely.

      That's mental they must hit affiliate sites hard. It's honestly only been up for a week and already been de indexed wtf. Got excited this morning as well when I noticed two sales.

      I never really aggressively built that many links, just done around 10 articles and a few directory submissions.

      Thanks for the feedback.
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    • Profile picture of the author SuzanneH
      Originally Posted by imdomination View Post

      If it is a deindexing, I would honestly just re-create a whole new site, especially if you've only had it for a week and start again from scratch.
      It would be better to investigate why first. I've seen sites deindexed because the person had "noindex" in their robots meta tag, because of overzealous robots.txt files, because of wonky plugins, etc.

      Suzanne
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  • Profile picture of the author soup
    **** I just realised I was talking rubbish in my above post. I done lots of RSS submissions too. Maybe I'm getting a bit aggressive when it comes to link building.
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  • Profile picture of the author Henlus
    That is not a problem since your site is just a week old. When I launched my first site I had a similar problem. Google kept de-indexing and and re-indexing my site until it finally stabilise. Its just a matter of time and the dancing will stop.
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    • Profile picture of the author soup
      Hi Guys,

      Out of the hundreds of sites I've optimised and had lots of fantastic results for, this is the first time I've ever had a Google penalty. I got a quality warning delivered through webmaster tools for the site that I had deindexed.

      The thing is, the site had unique content that was hand written and the only difference between this and 99.99% of the other sites I've worked on was the amazon affiliate links.

      Maybe I put too many on each page, maybe someone reported the site to Google because it was stealing their traffic. Who knows?? Only Google.
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  • Profile picture of the author soup
    Hi Suzanne,

    Thanks for the feedback. I've investigated and found the most likely cause to be the sheer amounts of amazon affiliate links I've placed on the pages of my site. Some of the pages had 4 outbound links, this may have over done it a bit.

    The whole thing has been a great learning experience for me and I'm actually glad this site got banned - I was getting a bit cocky when it came to online marketing due to the amount of success I've had in the industry.

    I've decided to concentrate on a new site in a more competitive niche that will deliver more than just product reviews.
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    • Profile picture of the author nik0
      Banned
      At Nextag almost every single page has 100's of affiliate links. The thinnest affiliate site I've ever seen and they are ranking like crazy.

      Cause they link to tons of different affilatesites they all of a sudden offer value as a price comparison engine.
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  • Profile picture of the author soup
    Hi Nik,

    That's a good shout. I suppose these kinds of sites add more value.

    I've decided not to let this amazon niche site go completely, I'm still getting traffic from Bing
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    • Profile picture of the author mosthost
      Originally Posted by soup View Post

      Hi Nik,

      That's a good shout. I suppose these kinds of sites add more value.

      I've decided not to let this amazon niche site go completely, I'm still getting traffic from Bing
      This will be true of almost all websites that get de-indexed from Google. The aggressive link building that may have gotten you killed has you ranking high in Bing.com.

      It's good there's an alternative.
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  • Profile picture of the author soup
    True. I was looking at some of my records and found that my link building was equally, if not more, aggressive with other sites that have not been banned. I have came to the conclusion that it is probably the high affiliate link to content ratio that was the issue.
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  • Profile picture of the author soup
    Hello,

    Luckily I didn't completely delete this site. I'm still selling thanks to bing and yahoo! All is not lost
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    • Profile picture of the author Paul Brown
      Great that all is not lost and that your still making sales.

      I've had this happen before and put it down to bad luck tbh. The site in question was no different to any of our other sites and 10 months later they are still doing well.

      It's the big G. Who knows lol.
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    • Profile picture of the author mosthost
      Originally Posted by soup View Post

      Hello,

      Luckily I didn't completely delete this site. I'm still selling thanks to bing and yahoo! All is not lost
      Bottom line is, if the website makes a profit, it's serving its purpose
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