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I have a site with a LOOOOT of urls like this:
[example.com...]
all hits from google to .../crap1/crap2/crap3/ have disappeared.
I only have now hits coming into /crap1/crap2/
and the problem is, most content was under .../crap3/
so, anything farther than 2 levels down the tree is actually a goner, even if any of the /crap3/ folders actually had PageRank 3.
[edited by: rogerd at 6:53 pm (utc) on Feb. 4, 2005]
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Do you have any deep links to that deep content?
How many clicks is it from your home page?
I doubt that directory depth has anything to do with it. It is almost certainly a matter of click depth.
but they do have a bunch of links direct from other domains. I gather those "deep links" are now worthless maybe.
yo.
EDIT: however, if you read my previous post about the "top models" issue. well, that search term has gone rank 15-20 before 2004-12, then to ZILCH, and now 4. out of 41 million results. and I only have one link to that page.
weirdly weird.
The /crap3/ pages had MUCH MORE MANY links to them, and they were much more explicitly worded, but yet they have disappeared.
It has good ratings fro its keywords. My big site 100,000 pages has been hit very very badly. Traffic down 60%+!
I think I can fix things but it is worrying when you can get hit like this.
Another advantage of smaller sites is having them spidered by all the search engines. yahoo appears to only have a bout a 10th of my site indexed.
1 - PROFIT-MINDED GOOGLE. Google is turning the results upside down looking for good Adsense click generators. Put some new sites at the top of the list, see if they generate Adwords revenues in a big way, if they do keep them high, if they don't bury them. Eventually return some of the original results back to the top of the SERPS, especially those that contribute to Adwords revenue.
2 - COMPASSIONATE GOOGLE. Throw a bone to sites that are about to disappear forever. Put them up on top even though they are bad, give them a head rush and a few Adsense dollars. Eventually correct things and get the good results back in place and lose the bad sites forever. Kind of like a severance payment.
3 - GOOGLE OVERSIGHT. A coding error. Oops, somebody accidentally referenced the function GetLameResults instead of the function GetGoodResults. They'll fix it soon.
4 - INCOMPETENT GOOGLE. They've been deluded into some new algo they thought'd give good results and instead it's mucked things up big time.
5 - INTERNAL SABOTAGE. Somebody bought a bunch of put options on the Google stock and then mucked up the code.
6 - MSN SABOTAGE. See #5.
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[edited by: Brett_Tabke at 9:47 pm (utc) on Feb. 4, 2005]
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yea right. This has been going on fo rmonths. First of all, if your site is dropped, other sites will do better and adesense will pick up on those sites. Zero sum game. I could see how an Adsense person can help you though, they all know each other and the search engineer might fix it as a favor. But generally speaking, Google doesn't care about you or me.
