Forum Moderators: open
I have two PR7 sites that have been dropped from the Google Directory but still in DMOZ. the URL's are in the format [domain-keyword.com...] and [keyword2.domain-keyword.com....]
I still have a third page [domain-keyword.com...] that is also in DMOZ and still in the google directory.
ALL pages have different content and are listed in appropriate categories in DMOZ and have been for over a year.
The google toolbar still shows PR7 on both sites.
Anyone got any ideas?
Are they in the Google directory without a PR bar next to them or completely gone?
I've been in WW since the middle of last year but am a bit of a lurker. When I tried to post under my old id the system said that it no longer exsisted, even though I still had the email with my userid and pass when i signed up. anyway never mind.
Well I think I've tracked down the problem(s).
for the primary domain the google toolbar is greyed now. I used to have another page use an http refresh to the domain homepage on another site. Google for some strange reason indexed this page as the original and my homepage as a mirror. When I viewed the cache for the page with the http refresh it showed my homepage. Also with the name of my site I would get the link to the external page NOT my homepage come up.
Solution was to use Google remove pages from index tool. This was really simple, just added a the meta tags for google not to index the page and submitted the page to be removed. Within a couple of hours the http refresh page was removed and my homepage is not back in the index (with greyed page rank). Now I just have to wait for the page to re-index. My homepage usually get's indexed and updated every 2 days so I'm expecting this to come right in a day or two.
As for the second one. Well a kind meta editor at dmoz kindly deleted this from the directory in mid aug. I'm an editor over at DMOZ and looked up the editor notes and they where complaining about too many deep links. I had 6 links for my site while many of my competitors (at least 5 I checked) have over 30 deep links. I sent the editor and staff a nice email complaining about being unfairly picked on. I have no problem with policies and guidelines but they must be applied fairly to all sites within a category I think.
So mystery all solved.
As to why google updated my homepage url to that of an external site with an http refresh this is troubling! Perhaps I could create pages with http refreshes linking to all my competitor homepages, if the same thing happens again I could steal all their traffic!
