Home Page position in site: command results

[code12]

Helly everybody,

the traffic for 2 of my sites dropped around 90% 2 weeks ago.
They are both on the same IP/server.

If i use the "site:www.exampel.com" all the indexed pages are listed, but the frontpage is found on positon 220. I haven't seen this on any other site i am operating, that the frontpage is not placed first.

All external links are targeting the frontpage, and no internal pages.
I think the drop of traffic/ranking has something to do with this.

Is this a kind of filter?
Any ideas?

Thank you very much!
I'am really confused.

[berrysharpie]

I have the same exact problem when I do a site: search. Happened on Dec 27th. Except my home page seems to be around position 700ish. The home page used to be the first page listed using this search.

Wish I could tell you why but it's something I am also terribly confused about.

[tedster]

One situation where I've seen this happen is when the domain root does not resolve directly, but instead redirects by some method or other. But not seeing the directory root as the #1 result for a site: query is not a sign of trouble. Amazon, for example, is doing just fine.

[code12]

- Yes, but it happened on two sites.
- Both sites on the same server.
- Same time.

I am using the same templates on different server-ips, and haven't seen this problem! The site:command is showing the frontpage first.

Yes, amazon.com has the same effect using the site:command.
But actually the browser is redirecting while visiting "www.amazon.com/" to a internal site.