URL-Only Listings

Is there a remedy?

[DerekH]

Just got in from seeing my elderly Dad to find one of my sites entirely reduced to URL-only. What a trying day all round!

I've seen plenty of threads in the past about this.

What worries me is that the remedies I've seen there don't seem to apply... My site is clean, no bad links, no duplicate content, no dynamic content, valid CSS, valid XHTML and nothing less than spotless white.

What's your thoughts...
Is it simply a passing fad from the Googlebot to come back later, or am I disappearing down the toilet and round the U-bend of invisibility?

DerekH

[DerekH]

Just bumping this up - by the time it appeared it was on page 2 of the forum!

Any ideas folks?
DerekH

[zeus]

Let me guess you dont get so many visits, when you make a site:mydomain.com the included pages are going down - then it looks like you are in the same boat as many of us and there are no real solution, maybe hope for msn is realising the se sooner.

[Tech2004]

When you say your main page is listed, and nothing else, is the Actual link to your site in the google index listed as:

[yoursite.com...]

or

[yoursite.com...]

?

[ClearlyBusiness]

I just checked my site, where about half the pages had just the url listed, since today its all clean and showing all the info, didn't change though anything in the rankings or visitor level.

[DerekH]

Tech2004...
It's correctly listed with the www. and there's been no confusion.

As of yesterday, another of my sites is going the same way.

This site, hosted on a free ISP for a local charity, may be suffering, I imagine, from the antics of others on the same ISP - two emails two Google have not received a reply about whether this is likely.

Before you ask, moving the site to another (proper) domain is something I've been urging them to do for a long time!

The symptoms are that a number of pages seem to be visited (because this particular site is on a free ISP, I can't see any logs) - some pages get a fresh date, and about an equal number disappear into URL only. And each time there's a visit, it looks like half get fresh dates and half disappear...

It's not as black and white as a site ban, but the effect is rather similar in the long term!
DerekH

[zeus]

tech - My site is listed as //mydomain.com and it has not been that way when google worked.

[Tech2004]

tech - My site is listed as //mydomain.com and it has not been that way when google worked

Ok, if its listed as [mydomain.com...] , Google will never associate the pages from the site when it indexed it as [mydomain.com...]

I found this out the hard way, and recently I resubmitted the 'www' domain back, and all my lost pages came back and were associated withthe 'www' URL.
Only thing is now, the cached dates on all the pages are DEC 31, 1969 , which I cant figure out, and Google is only stopping by for robots.txt and the home page , but never goes further. Try it on yours and see what happens.

[zeus]

tech - many has this problem with 1969 I have also seen it on my site, I think I will submit my main site agaian to google.

What do you say about the tracker2.php results (inurl:tracker2 php = 386.000 results) in Google.com, thats many spam site only using this method I bet there are many more.

[walkman]

"tech - My site is listed as //mydomain.com and it has not been that way when google worked. "

maybe Google screwed up and the algo made the domain.com and www.domain.com separate domains and obviously they're dupes. Who knows. A lot, lot of peopel got penalized these past three months.