Is Google purging sites aggressively?

5 sites dropped from index without explanation.

[termcder]

I operate 5 commercial websites and have been indexed and doing well with Google for over 6 months. Last week my largest site disappeared. This morning all of the others are gone. I don't spam or use redirects and I consider my site content rich with no backlinks from link farms that I'm aware of. I get a standard response from Google re: questions.

If there is a problem, how does one find out? If not, how does one fall out and get back in?

As all of you know this is serious business. Any insight greatly appreciated.

[lasko]

Hmm strange happenings, my index page re-appears in google. This page has a PR4 and was always in Google except for last night when it disappeard however its back again with a fresh date.

I knew I shouldn't worry too much.

Now which bin did I throw my google pen in last night......?

Has anyone noticed the message you get when searching for link:www.gfghk.com

if you add link:+ www.ghfk.com you actually get the real number of backlinks you should have until Google filters them out for PR.

This shows the number of backlinks I used to have back in June give or take a few

If someone already has posted about the links sorry for being so late the wife keeps me busy so we can buy new "Google" shoes :-)

[GranPops]

1. Plenty of new freshdates 21 Oct

2. Some fascinating changes in what is being indexed, should cause a few webmasters to consider more research. Some of the sites that I follow as examples will drop maybe 30 or 40 places.

[Napoleon]

Bizarre. I'll call it the 'Lasko' phenomena, as it is pretty similar to his.

PR6 site, in the index for years and in pretty much the same position. Last night: index page simply vanished from all centers. No apparent reason, as the site hasn't been changed for months.

In the last 2 hours it has returned. Unlike Lasko, no fresh tag though, just everything back to normal.

No.... I've little idea where to start on this one. A glitch in the matrix.

[TellyTubby]

Hi guy,s same happend to me site doing well pr6 for 1 year top ranking for all major keywords and now gone from google completely but still has pr?

[jsnow]

Lasko, I may be doing theis wrong link: +www.domain.com but it actualy reduces the number of links it shows

[lasko]

link:www.mysite.com

gives me 50 links

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link:+ www.mysite.com

gives me 200 links like it used to be

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link:+www.mysite.com

does not work

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It maybe nothing just something i noticed that I didn't know before. It does seem to show my links that I exchanged with but the pages have a very low PR.

[textex]

"GET /+unknownpagethatdon'texist HTTP/1.0" 404 359 "-" "Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html)"

Google is looking for a page that does not exist. Would this cause my big drop in rankings?

[mcavill]

when I search on link:+ www.mysite.com I get more results, but also "link" highlighted in the results, which makes me think that's not correct syntax for google as it's picking up the "link" as a search term.

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post no 100! - feel like I should have saved it for an extra special post
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[kaled]

link: does not work in Google as it does on ATW. You must type in the url and then choose the correct option from the list.

searching for link:+ www.domain.com is pretty much the same as searching for www.domain.com link

Probably the best way to count Google links (approx) is to search for www.domain.com -asdfg This result will not be perfect but it's about as good as it gets.

Kaled.

[plasma]

Google is looking for a page that does not exist.

Most probably someone did a typo in his browser with an installed googlebar.
AFAIK google collects these urls and tries to index them.

This is very common and doesnt have to do with your problem.