Why did Google revert to my old home page?

[Mick_Dugan]

OK, here's what happened. I designed my site using MS FrontPage and submitted it to MSN and Google. After reading up on optimization, I revamped my home page with an eye toward getting a better ranking.

Well, it worked! My three key phrases (custom cabinets hamptons), when plugged into MSN got me a number one rating. Several days later, apparently Google had respidered my site because I was getting a great rating there as well.

Then, several days later, I tried the same key words again in Google and... nothing. In fact, the only way I could get Google to display my site is if I typed in the actual URL. When I did, I noticed that they had gone back to my original, non optimized home page. What gives?

Regards,

Mick Dugan

[yonnermark]

I tried to post a new topic but I was blocked for some reason. So I'm posting it here - sorry for any inconvenience caused:

Is there a damage-limitation / standard way to do the following:

I have bluewidgets.com on a UK server.

Half my target audience is america, the other half is Europe (mainly UK) so I want to move the .com to a US server (and show prices in USD) and set up bluewidgets.co.uk on a UK server (and show prices in GBP).

I've spent the last 2 months working hard on SEO with my .com and I've achieved better results than I could ever have hoped for so I don't want to blow it all now.

Whats the safest way to do this?

THANKS for your time
mark

[5stars]

Hi Mick_Dugan

I have no explanation to offer... just sympathy as the same happened to me. And I am hoping the answer to your question will answer mine.

Last January... my designer moved an entire directory to the root and put a permanent redirect in the htaccess file.

In July I switched to a MS box and started noticing all kinds of 404 in the logs. Upon further investigation... I found that Google was re-listing these old pages.

Since htaccess doesn’t work on MS… I had to put the directory back… and risk penalty for dup content.

I too would like to know why Google is showing old content.

Does anyone know of a trick on MS that will permanently redirect all files in one directory to another (the root)?

Thanks in advance.