Dating the search results

[Neanderthal girl]

Recently google stopped showing the date next to my homepage (and other pages in my site) search result (Despite heavy incoming links to my site – 11k).
During last week (May 30th) update, although they did not dropped my PR8 they did dumped my homepage from almost all search results I had. In addition they “diluted” dramatically the “saturation” of my site’s pages in the index (site:www.mySite.com).

1.Any idea why there is no date anymore next to my homepage’s result and what is the date stands for?
2.Why my site has vanished despite kipping the high PR?

All ideas are warmly welcomed.
Thanks

[zgb999]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld!

The date should only appear if the page has changed in the last few days. After that it disappears. So nothing to worry about that.

Did you loose rankings for keywords that you have been in the top 10 for a long time?

[Rhadamanthus]

This won't help you now, but you can get a date pretty easily in the future if you include the date somewhere on the page itself. That way you can just check Google's cached version and see what the date says. This works particularly well on blogs and forums, which include the date automatically, but you could do it on any page if you wanted to.

[yves1]

Neanderthal_girl,
You might want to have a look at [webmasterworld.com...]

The reason why your site dropped in Googles's responses is linked to the fact that it does not get a fresh date any longer.

It looks like there is something going on...

[Neanderthal girl]

In reply to zgb999 “Did you loose rankings for keywords that you have been in the top 10 for a long time?” The aswer is yes. For more then a week now.
Any clue what is going on?

[zgb999]

Are you saying that the site is some years old and you always had your positions for certain keywords but since a week you lost your positions?

[yves1]

Neanderthal_girl,
Has your homepage got a large increase of backlinks recently?
Did you add on your homepage links to websites you are exchanging links with?

This is what I did on my PR6 page which now shows old cache/ no fresh date, and dropped in Google. So I am wondering...

[Neanderthal girl]

zgb999, this is all true.
The site is about 2 ˝ yo.
Lost many of the indexed pages over the course of the last week.
Also, the homepage is nowhere to be seen - G O N E for many keywords I used to rank # 1 in the SERPs.