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My newish site has been in Google for a few weeks now, but today it has vanished.
Could any of the following have caused it:
1. The web server went down for 15-30 minutes at about 20:30 on Friday.
2. I have got www.olddomain.co.uk redirecting to the current site using a META Refresh tag. Old domain used to be in Google as well but has disappeared today as well. The old domain is on a separate server from the main site.
3. I stuck the site into some FFA systems without realising how awful they were. A search for "Name of my company" on Google now brings up a handful of these FFA pages. It didn't used to until today - previously searching on "Name of my company" would bring up my old and new domains. Interestingly, although the search results from the FFA pages show our company name, the listing is not there when you actually visit the FFA page as it has expired.
4. Our company has a regional subsiduary with its own site and there are justifiable hyperlinks between the main site and the subsiduary. The subsiduary has never appeared in Google.
Any ideas appreciated please.
Dave.
old indexes, new algos etc
1. The web server went down for 15-30 minutes at about 20:30 on Friday.
Shouldn't be a problem
2. I have got www.olddomain.co.uk redirecting to the current site using a META Refresh tag. Old domain used to be in Google as well but has disappeared today as well. The old domain is on a separate server from the main site.
Try using a 301 redirect in your .htaccess file on olddomain.co.uk . That tells a search engine you have moved permanently.
3. I stuck the site into some FFA systems without realising how awful they were.
Whoops! Not a lot you can do to get off those...I would think you would not get banned for that but no PR would actually pass to your site.
4. Our company has a regional subsiduary with its own site and there are justifiable hyperlinks between the main site and the subsiduary.
If the sites have different content, don't worry about.
Do you have links to your site besides the FFA stuff? If not, Google may have just turned off the PR passed from the junk links and your site fell into oblivion. Other good links (ODP, Yahoo etc.) should bring you back on another update.
