Homepage Deindexed but inner oages still indexed?? Help!!!

Hi Yeehaw,
did you find a way of speeding up the process. Did you add a robots.txt file??
Searching Google like mad here but all I seem to get is questions and no answers.
Has anyone else had any experience here - is this a penalization by Google??

Bad advice.

Check GWMT. This can happen because your hosts DNS is not configured properly (you would be surprised at the big name hosts that this happens to regularly).

Usually when I see this behaviour happen it is due to some networking issue.

A link scheme? You mean like a contextual home page backlink network designed to increase rankings...?

Also, what types of links have you built in the past for these sites and is this "small bunch" of sites that you have all on the same IP? Are these datafeed sites?

Your site IS NOT deindexed as it's still ranking for deep pages. Consider it "in the penalty box" for the time being.

Are any of the sites ranking for its own name? (when spelled out with spaces) If so, what's the ranking URL?

10 Factors To Be Considered:

1) Thin content on your homepage.

2) Thin content (in general) relative to your niche and competition.

3) A large percent of above the fold content might be images, links to internal pages, affiliate links, or ads. Not good.

4) Running pop-unders or pop-overs to build a list? Disable that stuff.

5) Do you have "rel=canonical" features enabled? Try disabling that.

6) Add, change, or vary your homepage content. Immediately!

7) Add (or scheduled) new content regularly to continue building the index of the site out.

8) Remove or cloak any affiliate links you may be running on your site, especially your home page. If your site is in Wordpress, use Pretty Links.

9) How many OBL's are you running on your home page? Try reducing that number if possible.

10) Are these site interlinked? Are they blogroll, footer, or sitewide type links? If so, remove them.

Remember, the sites are not de-indexed. A few things just need to be updated and changed so they will continue to run strong long term. You won’t last long if the intent to monetize is too aggressive and the content is thin. Good luck!

Originally Posted by AndyBlackSEO Double check your header info! Check for 'nofollow, noindex'. A template might have been changed or something. Happened to me once and this is extactly what happened.

I checked for it, and i saw a "noindex" tag.. but i cant remember what it was.
I removed my "Easy No Index No follow" plugin and it was gone. Not sure if that was the reason. Homepage still missing. Sigh.

Originally Posted by AndyBlackSEO Double check your header info! Check for 'nofollow, noindex'. A template might have been changed or something. Happened to me once and this is extactly what happened.

Hi AndyBlackSEO -- do you think that this tag caused my Homepage deindexing?

It was "leaked" into my source code by a plugin! what do you think?

Code:

</style>
<!--Add by easy-noindex-nofollow--><meta name="robots" content="noindex, follow"/>
<style type="text/css">.broken_link, a.broken_link {
	text-decoration: line-through;
}</style>

Originally Posted by Steve Holmes As already mentioned, you need to look in your Google webmaster - which I'm hoping you have set up.

Hi Steve, thanks for the reply, may I know what i should look out for within Google Webmaster tools? I'm a real newbie and i hope you don't mind explaining a little more about GWT. Thank you!!

Originally Posted by gittar1122 Instead of doing site:domain.com, try info:yourdomain in Google. If it show your homepage then it means your site is not deindexed.

Omigod. Omigod.Omigod.

site:mydomain.com --> shows 52 pages
info:mydomain.com --> shows ZERO page.

But when i check
info:mydomain.com/innerpageURL --> it shows that particular page.

Can you tell me what's happening here!??
Is ONLY my homepage deindexed?

Originally Posted by gittar1122 Can you PM me your domain, if you trust.

Yeah i trust.
I can't post a PM as i've yet to reach 50posts!
but i'd really appreciate it if you could help me take a look at it. sigh.

my domain is (remove spaces please).. just don't want google to index this
Xxxxxxxxx [DOT] c o m

Originally Posted by gittar1122 Homepage deindexed, rest 52 pages indexed so far. Have you tried some advertisement (adword)? I am getting this ad: [LIST] Google Ad was here Backlink growth is normal: Ahrefs: 134 backlinks MajesticSEO: 362 backlinks Have you tried any automated link building technique in past weeks???

Yes, that's my ad! ermmm, would you mind removing my URL from your post? wouldn't want anyone to see it! Thank you for that

May I know how is AdWords relevant?

I went to Fiverr and bought
- a 1200 + 2500 of article submissions (not sure how many were indexed)
- one web2.0 linkwheel

Most of my site backlinks BEFORE these are via BMR

NOTE: I had a wordpress plugin called "Easy No Index No Follow" which i deleted as it was leaving either a noindex or nofollow tag on my viewsource. Do you think that was it? I have already removed it and can't remember what it looked it. I remember it was near a word "Meta", and near it was a "link is broken. link is broken"... i got a little scared and deleted the plugin.

Originally Posted by AndyBlackSEO If your robots tag says nodollow, noindex then that needs changing as that would cause the problem you describe. Also the same for a Google tag etc. They should read 'follow, index'. You would then wait for Google to crawl your homepage again. Then it would re-appear with no loss to rankings.

This is what my Robot.Txt says, can you tell if anything is wrong?
User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-includes/
Sitemap: http://www.XXXXXXXXXXX.com/sitemap.xml.gz
replace XXXXXXXXX with --> e m c e e m e l v i n


is it normal for BOTH google and bing to deindex my Homepage at the same time?

Because my rankings in Bing have lowered drastically too. All not within Top500

Originally Posted by Mike Anthony Sounds like you have screwed up your home page not a deindexing

Hi Mike, thanks loads for replying to this thread

Sigh, would u know whats wrong with my Homepage then?
if not, would you know what sort of Specialist I could look for to have it checked? E.g. Wordpress specialist, SEO specialist?

Never heard of what before?
P.s. welcome to the warriorforum! it's my first few days here too!

Nope, it was because of the noindex tag that caused the De-indexing of the homepage..
All has been fixed!