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My other domains are producing results with no problems.
Is this connected to the update perhaps? Any thoughts?
[edited by: ciml at 4:40 pm (utc) on Dec. 28, 2004]
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been tracking it using our tracking web-site , haven't seen anyother sites do it though!
Here's a theory that I have. From the changes I've observed (on one of my keywords). The number one has been up there for a while, and in the industry it means big bucks. Now that they are gone, all the money they made is going into PPC in this costly industry. This has happened to me before (2 times) and ofcourse I got into the costly ppc ads. IMHO this is business for G, help you make the money then "sandbox" you so you can, in return, stuff your income into their ppc system. G SERPS natural? Sandbox? I call it business! You make it, they take it.
We had this happen on the end of November, we disappeared completely from Google. (MSN and Yahoo, no problem)
Then a couple of days later we started appearing but the pages being displayed are from April 2004 (it was our old shopping cart system instead of the new one that had been working since Spring 2004). AND picked up by Google since then.
I emailed Google and asked what happened...
I thought maybe the duplicate content penalty was being applied to our site as I read here it has happened to others.
At first there were some automated replies and I asked again. Finally they told me that it there was no penalty. And that changes are between 6-8 weeks so we needed to wait. Now more than a month later (week 5) and still almost no traffic from Google. Now the last thing I noticed was that in the Google Directory, if I search for our site in the category its listed under, it wont appear, even though it is listed there. Finally it was placed at the bottom of the directory page. No Green Bar, just a missing pixel image.
The Pagerank still shows like always, so I haven’t seen a change there, but in the results page basically nothing.
Our Adwords did go up.
I'm just glad Yahoo and MSN are here.
If things start to change I'll let you know.
Best of luck...
See my thread here -
[webmasterworld.com...]
I just got mine back after nearly 6 months.
You have to hammer them and hammer them to get a result, it worked for me.
A hint though. Try a search "allinurl:www.mydomain.com" and see if there is any trace of your site.
Good luck.
shows no results either,
will probe the data centres next!
link:domain.com works
inurl:domain.com works
but site:domain.com doesn't work.
Traffic is still about 20-30% of what it was and SERPs have disappeared on most of the keywords I was tracking.
I too wondered if it was something to do with duplicate content as I've found a few sites hijacking some of my stuff - but its all just speculation.
Will email google I guess and get in the queue to get it looked at.
A site owner called me and said their site was cut off a the knees.
Only 15 pages still existed even though they had several hundred unique product pages.
In this case it looks like a server issue, the last page listed had a cache date of Dec 31, 1969 23:59:59 GMT.
Lately I feel like I have become a google furnace repairman. Sites have been losing heat suddenly for a variety of reasons that did not seem to matter before.
My take is that google has shortened it's patience.
Before: You have a bad data feed, we will check back soon.
Now: You have bad data feed, bye bye and see ya later.
Before: You have bad data, we will skip over the bad data and look at the rest.
Now: You have bad data, bye bye and see ya later
Before: I see alot of common code and content here, yet I will look futher for unique content.
Now: I see alot of common code and content here, bye bye and see ya later
You must then have over 2,000 pages, and each of them posses somewhat similar content, that is the only other thing that fits the penalty pattern.
No.
Or do your pages have more than 100 links on them?
No.
The only thing I have seen in terms of dup content is that a competitor copied my meta description (and the competitor took my place in the rankings). I can find no other dup content anywhere. I have since changed my meta desc to see what happens. So far, nothing.
the site I had stripped from google had a search engine feed on the pages...
could it be possible, that google is now stripping competitor data? (if they see links to these domains!?)
