Chris_R - 12:06 pm on May 23, 2001 (gmt 0)

I had a somewhat similar situation in that I had - lets say 5 pages - one was fairly well ranked and pointed to the other four. When that one went away, the page dropped all the way to the bottom of any searches. Are you sure it is not there at ALL?

Did the page(s) that pointed to your site go away?

It could just be an update thing. There is a part of the google update proceedure that goes like this:

(Drop all child links - redo something or other - and then add them back in)

At one point or another - those on the bottom of the foodchain are dropped for google to do some sort of iteritive process - than they are added back in. Maybe that is what you are seeing.

I would be suprised if the totally got rid of your pages all together after everything is said and done.

Here is a quote from one paper:

"Dangling links are simply links that point to any page with no outgoing links....Often these are ....simply pages we have not downloaded yet.....we siply remove them until all the PageRanks are calculated. After all the PageRanks are calculated, they can be added back in...."

This wasn't the quote I was looking for - but it is something like that.