Main Index page disappeared from Google Index

Anyone else suffering from this?

[The Cricketer]

My problem seems to have taken place during the recent google changes. My entire site seems ok except for my main index page has been lost.

It looks like it's disappeared from Google entirely. Has anyone else suffered from this recently? or can anyone offer an explanation about why it's just this page which has disappeared.

I suppose there's always the posiibility that that particular page could have been down when googlebot came to visit....?

[SoleDrag]

bakedjake

Thanks for taking the time to post that for me! It's helping .. but I'm still a little lost.

My internal links are sound. They don't point to different versions of my index page. When I search for my home page I get this:

"mydomain.com/

Google can show you the following information for this URL:

Find web pages that are similar to www.mydomain.com
Find web pages that link to www.mydomain.com
Find web pages that contain the term "www.mydomain.com"

But I still have my PR, it's definitely not zero. I have been getting some nice links lately, more than ever, because I started an agressive linking campaign, that's completely relevant and legit.

Nothing I've read has had these exact problems. Any ideas?

[SoleDrag]

I should add that my www.mydomain.com/default.asp DOES show up in the SERPS, although not very well.

[bakedjake]

You (or someone else) is linking to / and /default.asp, I think.

Can you query for www.domain.com and www.domain.com/default.asp and see if you get different results?

[SoleDrag]

bakedjake

I do get different results....

When I query [domain.com...] I get the "Sorry, no information is available for..."

Does that shed any light?

[bakedjake]

Yeah - Google's treating them as different pages.

Do a 301 redirect from /default.asp to / or vice versa. Alternatively, make sure all your linking partners are linking to /.

/default.asp wouldn't be showing up if someone wasn't linking to it.

[SoleDrag]

I just found that my "Home" links on my side and bottom shared borders were going to the .com/default.asp

So I changed those to go to just .com/

Could that really have been the problem? That's hard to believe since it's been that way since my site was up in 2001. But what the heck, I gave it a try.

I remember Marcia mentioned that in the thread you directed me to.

[bakedjake]

Give it 3 days - should come right back for ya. ;-)

[SoleDrag]

All I can do it wait and hope I guess. I'm not good at that ;-)

Thanks so much for your help.

[wrgvt]

My index page for one of my sites disappeared just after the first of the year. It's got a ton of external backlinks and ranked #1 for certain keywords, #3 for another pair, and then about #21 for the most popular keywords. If I searched on my site name, my index page was on the top of the SERPs. If I searched on what were my most favorite keywords, I wasn't in the top 1000. My site would pop up on top of the SERPs for other obscure keywords and all my internal pages seemed to continue to rank really well. Only about 7% of my site visitors come through my index page, most come through the 800 or so internal pages and from bookmarks.

What did I do? Not a damn thing. I continued adding subpages to both this site and my other sites. I noticed every once in a while that I would show up for some of my popular keywords, and then disappear an hour again later. My site's total traffic didn't suffer much and my sales remained strong. Today, I'm back in the SERPs for almost all the popular keywords except the ones where I used to be #1 in the SERPs. It will probably be back soon.