The_Zenker - 1:51 am on May 23, 2006 (gmt 0)

I manage a small shop site that dropped from 400+ pages to only the main index page showing in the index. It is a hyphenated domain name i.e. my-site.com, so I was hoping that it was all related to the "fix" that google is working on. I have been following this thread, and others, to try and determine whether I should take the...

sit on my hands

...approach or do something.

To comment on the main theory of this thread, I have a small site that has a directory structure of 1 level under the index. A wide and short pyramid. However, in an effort to be indexing friendly I created a deeper, keyword based, hierarchy using ModRewrite, so that all of my content now appears to be 3 to 4 levels under the root (my-site/brandname/producttype/product), with no content in-between. If your theory is correct, it would explain why I have lost all but my index page.

Reading PageOneResults post:

Another thing, you definitely need to make sure that the site has no major technical issues to contend with. A poorly implemented rewrite will do more harm than no rewrite at all.

made me re-think this approach. However, the fact is that I rolled out this structure in March and all of my pages were indexed and traffic was decent.
So my rewrite code is technically good, just now maybe the rules have changed?