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Google Organic listing disappeared?

by ptmatt
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I have a website for my business I created about 3 months ago and I was slowly climbing my organic listing to the first page of Google for related keyword searches. Today I checked and I cant find an organic listing for my homepage anywhere. Even when I do a direct business name search, still nothing comes up for my homepage. My places page is visible but its like my organic listing that was atop of page two last week has completely vanished.

Does anyone have any opinions on what may have happened?
#disappeared #google #listing #organic
  • Profile picture of the author unikbit
    do you get any results when do site:yourdomainname.com ?
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    • Profile picture of the author ptmatt
      Originally Posted by unikbit View Post

      do you get any results when do site:yourdomainname.com ?
      Yes, when I type in my domain in the Google searchbar the organic listing pointing towards my homepage shows. When I type in my business name it shows results for other pages on my website for unrelated services but not my hompage.
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  • Profile picture of the author Pyramid Linkers
    Originally Posted by ptmatt View Post

    I have a website for my business I created about 3 months ago and I was slowly climbing my organic listing to the first page of Google for related keyword searches. Today I checked and I cant find an organic listing for my homepage anywhere. Even when I do a direct business name search, still nothing comes up for my homepage. My places page is visible but its like my organic listing that was atop of page two last week has completely vanished.

    Does anyone have any opinions on what may have happened?
    Have you checked to see if it is still indexed? Were you ranked for the business name before? What kind of links were you building? How often? Could be Google recalculating your websites relevance. Could be something worse.
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    • Profile picture of the author ptmatt
      Originally Posted by Pyramid Linkers View Post

      Have you checked to see if it is still indexed? Were you ranked for the business name before? What kind of links were you building? How often? Could be Google recalculating your websites relevance. Could be something worse.
      I was ontop of page 2 in the Google organic listings before it disappeared. I've just been doing basic link building on web directories and blogs. I usually ad about 5 to 10 links per day.
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      • Profile picture of the author Pyramid Linkers
        Originally Posted by ptmatt View Post

        I was ontop of page 2 in the Google organic listings before it disappeared. I've just been doing basic link building on web directories and blogs. I usually ad about 5 to 10 links per day.
        Ok, well as long as the content is original and the links are pretty straight foward then Google is likely just recalculating your place in the search engines. I've had many sites do that in the past. Keep building links with quality content and your site will come back. Don't get too aggressive. But quality links (blog posts, web 2.0) with good content will take you alot further than any other low quality links (blog spam, social bookmarks, forum profiles".
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  • Profile picture of the author seorizwan
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    • Profile picture of the author ptmatt
      Originally Posted by seorizwan View Post

      write site:test.com

      or cache:test.com it will help you too see the last crawl and try to make some bookmarking link back.
      I'm not sure what test.com is?
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      • Profile picture of the author Pyramid Linkers
        Originally Posted by ptmatt View Post

        I'm not sure what test.com is?
        He's just saying you can put in any domain name in the place of "test.com"
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        • Profile picture of the author ptmatt
          Originally Posted by Pyramid Linkers View Post

          He's just saying you can put in any domain name in the place of "test.com"
          LOL....got it....thanks!
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  • Profile picture of the author TDogger
    If the site's content is not unique, or the site uses spun content, it may have been Panda slapped.

    If you have been using crappy backlink building techniques, the links have probably been discounted and are now a complete waste. If you use Webmaster Tools, check for any messages left there. They are warning site owners about poor quality backlinks.

    Google is also going after sites that they determine to be "over -SEO'd". If you are using keyword stuffing or anything unusual, your may have been slapped because of that.

    There is always the possibility that one of Google's new algorithms screwed up. They accidentally de-indexed a bunch of sites last week, but then restored them after they discovered the mistake.
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