Wilburforce - 1:43 pm on Sep 10, 2006 (gmt 0)

JackR

When my index page disappeared in August, it disappeared from a lot of DC's as well (15-16 of them for a couple of days). When it reappeared in the DC's it reappeared in UK searches.

This time around it disappeared only briefly from a few DC's, but still isn't appearing in searches even if I do a sitename search (which returns ALL my other 100+ pages), so either the page itself isn't UK indexed, or there is some mechanism to hide it. I think the page is no longer indexed (i.e. the filter excludes pages from the index, not from searches), but see final paragraph, which might put a spanner in that hypothesis. Why pages would be cached but not indexed (or how they might be indexed but invisible) is certainly food for thought.

The odd thing is that Google webmaster central tells me the page IS indexed, so whatever the explanation it looks as if Google's right hand doesn't know what the left is doing. This is very worrying if - like me - most of your potential new clients use Google as their only method of looking for a supplier.