alwaysthinking - 9:41 pm on Jul 28, 2005 (gmt 0)

This is the ONLY "major" change that I made to my Directory site that was deleted... added a 301 redirect using coding someone here recommended:

RewriteEngine ON
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]

It works great, and forced the "www" on to the few links in the search engines that had dropped the "www" I do NOT think this could be the problem...

For further clarification, when I say "my directory," I am speaking about the "best content" part of the web site. There are other sections of the site that has other types of information, including artcles.

However, along with my "directory site," another client's web site that I linked to was also completely deleted from Google's search data, and that particular site could NOT be considered a directory in any manner of thinking, yet it was also deleted at the same time.

The information on that site is complimentary to the front page content of the "primary" deleted site, and there was only one link in the navigational side bar to the other site - nothing I would consider excessive "interlinking." Also, they were not "hidden" links, just straight forward text description navigational links between the web sites with complimentary content. Different hosting servers too...

Finally, on some pages of the deleted "primary" web sites, there were links to my "secondary" web site that has relatively good web presense in Yahoo & MSN, while only minimal presense in Google's SERPs (it wasn't designed for Google). Yet, the secondary web site remains in Google (and the others). If there was a problem between the three sites... why didn't they all become deleted?

Anyway, my point is that the recent complete deletion that some of our sites experienced last night - last few days, might not necessarily be because of filters on Directory web sites. However, that just leaves it to be an even greater mystery.