Indexed page not in SERP

Site is indexed but not showing up in serp

[utica]

As they say in sports talk radio around here "first time caller, long time listener". Thank you all for helping to bring me up to speed on the webmaster craft. I know I have a long way to go.

Newbie question:

I have a three month old site that has been indexed by Google. That is, when I search for [mydomain.com...] the listing comes up. However when I search for a keyword phrase like "hi, i'm selling widgets here", nothing is returned in the serp.

This was not true a month ago, "hi, i'm selling widgets here" would bring up the listing in the serp. The page is also in the cache.

I have a lot more development to do with the content on the site. Should I just be patient and assume Google will catch up? Is it possible I did something wrong?

[jude2]

Hey Utica...I'm a newbie too, so I can't answer your question. But I can tell you that the exact same thing happened to me...except that every few days I CAN pull up my site with keywords (the very specific and rare ones!), and then it's gone again and I can only find it by searching for the domain name.

So if you've done something wrong, I must've done it too. I'm hoping it's just going to take awhile, and that although we were found and indexed, we weren't actually ranked or something...I don't understand. :)

Can anyone tell us whether we should be concerned yet?

Good luck!
Jude

[kelvinhui]

be patient

[utica]

I'll heed your advice on patience kelvinhui. I just want to be sure I'm not making a dumb mistake.

[bekyed]

Hi,

You are not making a mistake, far from it.
Our website is 3 years old, no spam just good se fodder and our index page has been disappearing from the serps for 3 days now, not in cache,says the domain cannot be found although all the other pages are fine,index page cannot be found in any data centre, this is prepostorous as we have as i said done nothing wrong at all.

Your comments are appreciated. sticky me if you like.

Bek.

[mikeD]

ive seen this happen for weeks, and over a month for one keyword phrase. Annoying

[bekyed]

Hi Mike,
Our index page of one of our websites has completely vanished from google and when i type in the url, it says the page is not in the index
Can anyone help me out on this one as we have not changed the site at all - is this just a glitch?
Is anyone anyone else experiencing this?

My site has not been down and is crawled regularly every day, the index page is just missing as was in the top 10 for our keyphrase a few days ago

My index page is not showing any cache and is also not showing on any of the other datacentres
our site is over 3 years old and has been doing very well for a long time, the site is crawled every day including the index page.

I think the serps are showing vintage data but we have always been in a good position, and the strange thing is new pages only a few days old are in the serps as well.
Can you explain this?

Will this remedy itself and is anyone experiencing the same.?

Bek

[WebFusion]

Hello,

Have been experiencing the "disappearing index page" phenom for a couple of sites. The first site's index page reappeared a week ago (after bieing MIA for about 3 weeks), still waiting on the second.

I honestly think all the "missing index page" prblems are, for the most part, an offshoot of the new "rolling update", whereas, if your site get's missed for whatever reason during the current rolling "crawl", your out of luck unti lthe next big "update" (which seem, at least for sites in my genre, to occur every 14-18 days or so).

[Gus_R]

utica:
probably page went very deep in serps, check several combinations for its keywords, specially if low pr.
Google only shows first 1000 results.

[utica]

Gus_R the serp shows zero listings for the keyword phrases I tried.

I ran the site through a keyword analyzer and found that the pages I'm checking on are not indexed in google. They were indexed about a month ago.

[bekyed]

Hi,

The site has a pr of 4 utica and has been doing very well on google, the page is crawled every day, the thing is my competitors above me have been using hidden keywords, spam etc and their sites are consistently at the top.

Webfusion - Are your pages crawled every day but do not get included the same as us?

bek

[percentages]

In my cats I have about 18.6 million sites all wanting to rank on that elusive first page....well let's see how do we get 18.6 million websites into 10 positions?......we don't whatever math you care to use.....so the answer is something else ;)

[Gus_R]

utica: common things causes drops from index:
-robots.txt/meta tags exclusions
-only fresbot tags, so listings remain few days
-no current links found for a page
-site offline for long time
-page is duplicated

For unusual issues I think getting good links solves index problems.

[bekyed]

Yes but we have been crawled every day by googlebot, this has only been happening for 3 days now, links are good.

Bek

Any answers?

[felix8]

Hi,
Same here
googlbot visits every day asks for robots.txt and another gif file and not updating anything.

index page is missing from SERP's for weeks now (used to be no' 4 for main keyword) but cashed.

god know whats going on that company.

But they are GOD.
and we like god...

[dougs]

patience patience....just keep doing the right stuff and one day...

[bekyed]

It will all be gone
were doomed!

lol

Bek