Google Guy,
I may have what i think is a serious glitch in Google for you to look at, and i am of course very interested if anyone else has had the same problem. My site is lets say widgets.com, i have thousands of links, but i have one very good link from one particularly good site. I tryed to find out how much traffic i was getting from this link so for 1 day i added a "?source=linkedsite" at the end of the url linking to my home page.As luck would have it spiders happened to come by on the one day i had the referrer code in the link. As of when these links started showing on -cw my domain name switched on all servers to www.widgets.com?source=linkedsite. This has happened to a few sites that i have that link to the same linkedsite. Anyway, the homepage of my site is now a PR of 0(when poiting to -cw), however my internal pages are fine. I'm still doing fine in the SERPS except of course my homepage who can no longer be found for its companies name, which it has held the top spot in for as long as i can remember. Basically as far as i can see my homepage has been ripped out of the index and replaced by its domain with a referrer code attatched.
My only idea is google has some how recognized this as 2 seperate URLS and and has given it some kind of duplicate content penalty or something. As the homepage now registers 0 links or at least gets a response of "did not match any documents" Seems unbelieveable but believe it.
<snip> Its an industry leader site in a very competitive industry, so i dont really want to throw it around in this forum.
Any one else see this problem? or am i the only bad luck smuck.
PS
Well aware of referral codes coming up in the index, but replacing a homepage?
[edited by: ciml at 11:23 am (utc) on Aug. 11, 2003]
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