Homepage dropped, Subpages didn't?

[Easyseb]

I checked my google results for a couple days and our homepage completely disappeared. All other pages are still indexed very well. PR of all pages including homepage is great.
I checked every possible reason (too much interlinking, keyword density....)

But how can the homepage drop in the Google SERPs, but the "subpages" of the same homepage are still very good ranked?

Thanks,

Easyseb

[DerekH]

There may be many different answers to this, but I'll tell you about the one that happened to one of my sites...

My homepage vanished.
Everything else stayed visible, but the homepage vanished.
The homepage was a webforwarding page to another ISP.

Nothing about that webforwarding page had changed.

Two weeks later it reappeared and has been top of the SERPS again for my chosen keywords for 6 months.

Moral?
It's not always the case that staring at results over two weeks is giving you a view of the big picture.

And now I hand over to others to tell you the opposite story...
DerekH

[pcgamez]

My front page (index.php) was dropped well over a month ago now. When I use site:www.example.com, only 4 or 5 pages have a description listed, but it claims there are over 26,000 pages. Regardless, I am still getting over 1,000 visitors from Google daily.

*shrug*

[atlrus]

Yup, my home page just disappeared for my main keyword, but it shows when I use www3. and www2. on google. The rest of my website is showing just fine. Something is certainly going on...

[Easyseb]

Thanks for so many answers.

But I forgot to say:

If I type in google "www.domainxy.com" our company site shows up like this:

Sorry, no information is available for the URL www.domainxy.com

Is this a sign of blacklisting or can this happen?

Thanks,

Easyseb

[acouture]

Add us to the list of thousands who suddenly vanished from Google- in fact we wrote Google four times inquiring as to the removal of our index page (homepage) - there is no information on our domain now we were PR6 and are now graybar.

I have asked Google why our homepage is missing, and why our pages are suddenly buried, they claim it is routine, no manual remove, no competitor pull - nothing suspiscious.

I had an original report of unauthorized deletion during the loophole on their autoremoval system - but nothing since.

We have no idea how long it will take to get back to where we were, how this happened, or when we will index into the system again - or if there is a problem with our page - we can not get a straight answer from the Google team.

Now, here's the onstacle: We have a RTML programmed Yahoo Shopping store. Yahoo hosts our domain - we were originally right at the top with an keyword search - now we get garbage galore from a kook competitor that rampaged us in Google groups and online. This happened right during the missing index page incident for Microsoft and Adobe, amidst many claims that she would not rest until she had proclaimed to the world how much she hated us. Suddenly, poof - we are gone from Google.

This obviously is not good for biz - and we apparently do not have a robots.txt file to work with on Yahoo Store - nor do we have a way to moniter when googlebot visits.

Any suggestions would be tremendously appreciated.I can also send our source if someone wants to take a peek.

Thanks!
Maryanne

[claus]

There was a thread about this, started May 3:

[webmasterworld.com...]

Msg #61 by me in that thread is an error post, so don't bother reading that one..... from what i understand, msg #66 by idoc is worth a close read.

[acouture]

Thank you - We'll look that up!

[photonstudios]

I recently removed main www.paypal.com homepage from google :) They used to take up two top 10 positions for keyword - credit cards, not anymore..Also their homepage is now google grey bar and all internal pages are PR 0. Hope it stays that way, paypal is evil..

[bose]

IIRC, G had "reportedly" fixed this loophole. Apparently not!

Bose