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shabir

1:23 pm on Aug 5, 2002 (gmt 0)

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In the mid of last month one of our site was dropped from Google dB. On requesting for the reason, Google has sent an email informing that the site is not been manually removed from the index. The possible reasons could be

1) A technical glitch at their end (Google).
2) The site was unreachable when Google bot visited.
3) The site content changed significantly as did links pointing to the page and the site no longer have page rank or the page had low page rank to begin with and a small change cud caused it.

They also added that the site might reappear after the next update in few weeks.

Hence, I patiently waited for the latest update to be over, but my site is still nowhere to be seen in Google. Also according to reasons specified by Google, I am 100 % sure that point 2) & 3) being non-applicable. I have checked my server up-time report, according to which site was never down during the crawl. Also there was neither any significant change in the site content nor in the links pointing to it and my site had a PR of 6.

Guys Plzzz Help

newriver

1:49 pm on Aug 5, 2002 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



shabir,
I am in the same boat you are, my site had a pagerank of 7, and is now not in the index. I have checked with Google as well, and confirmed no penalty. From reading these forums in depth, as long as you don't see a pagerank 0 on the Google toolbar on your site, all you can do is hold your breath for the next index and pray.

I think for my site there were two significant links that were down during the spidering, and it appears the link from Yahoo's directory also had a greyed out toolbar. That makes three links from pages with PR 6 or higher that were unavailable during the last spidering. Which I am praying is the reason why the site is not included in this current index.

What I don't understand is why the DMOZ link (PR 6), and the other links from pages currently in the index didn't get the site spidered and included in the index.

I remain rather comfortable that it was a glitch for my site, I don't engage in any spamming techniques because I can't afford to get kicked out of Google. Another month without it and I have to start laying people off here....here's to crossing your fingers and praying.

shabir

2:49 pm on Aug 5, 2002 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



newriver,
What I don't understand is why the DMOZ link (PR 6), and the other links from pages currently in the index didn't get the site spidered and included in the index.

Even I wonder about the same. Moreover How can I check the validity of links now, when the site is not at indexed in dB?

shabir

3:00 pm on Aug 5, 2002 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



Also can any one lemme know if "Backward Links" and "Similar Pages" are working then site is very much in the dB.