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My site in the sj server and all the other servers is no.3 for <keywords>.
yesterday it was no.3 for <keywords> on google.com but for some reason today its not on google. Its still top ten for some other keywords but i was wondering what happened to the keyword of <keywords>. Its disappeared from the listing of <keywords> (its not even on the top 100).
Please can you help
[edited by: Woz at 10:38 am (utc) on May 20, 2003]
[edit reason] no specifics please. [/edit]
The all of a sudden and for no apparent reason the Google magic wand gets waved and "poof" my sites vanished from the SERPS in it entirety. I still have a PR but no sign of my site in any of the databases?
The moral of the story is, yes you should spread your risk by using as many different key phrases as possible, blah blah blah heard it all before concentrate on traffic not one or two keywords, but what do you do when your site just vanishes period for no apparent reason, apart from go hungry for a month. And before anyone says anything, yes it is a case of sour grapes.
Now, for some reason our 'group website' has vanished, so too has 2 of the other sites. Only 1 is left, meaning a loss of £££ via signups.
However, the 'sub pages' i.e /subpage.htm etc are still listed in Google, if you go on a few pages.
While this in itself is useless for us (as nobody will search through 5 pages and find our site) I'm wondering what this all means?
What should we do? Hope that Google picks up on our sites next udate?
I'm a bit worried that we have been removed for good thats all.
Steve
hard to say, IMO extensive cross-linking is generally disliked by Google.
This might help: [webmasterworld.com...]
So I rebuilt the site on another new domain it's now sitting at number 1 for my main keywords and with a PR5, all you can do is de-link it, then send G a email asking for them to look at the site, if it was me I'd dump the domains and start a fresh
Would I be able to use the same design & content from the banned domain and FTP it to one of the 2?
How would you then make sure it has more chance of NOT being banned? I.e what sites should I not exchange links with etc
Would I get banned if lots of business sites linked to the main site even if I didnt reciprocate?
Steve
In which case I'd hang on... part of the never ending saga.