Strange SERPS Problem

inurl: vs. site:

[spander]

For 7 years I have enjoyed a nice stream of traffic from MSN. Suddenly, 2 days ago that stream stopped dead.

If I do a search for site:domain.com I get the usual 38,000+ pages. If I do a search for inurl:domain.com, I always have, and should still, get approximately the same results. However, inurl:domain.com now gives me zero results.

Is this just a temporary bug?

Has anyone else experienced this problem? and if so what was the outcome? Any enlightenment would be appreciated.

[dauction]

exactly the same here just stopped dead in it's tracks ... I see most of my pages site:domain.com EXCEPT index and nothing on inurl:domain.com

extremely frustrating..

[spander]

Now that I take a second look, my www.domain.com is gone as well in site:domain.com, although all my subdomains and 1000's of interior pages are there.

It appear that if they drop the www then everything is gone, including all traffic.

[Gshaughn]

Same thing occurred here. Site was submitted through SubmitIT, but was not accepted into the directory. High KW rankings for a long time, for a lot of pages.

Does this have to do with the site not being in the MSN directory? Just a thought.

Has anyone experienced this sudden site removal, and then everything rebounded? (hopefully)

[spander]

I don't think the way a site is submitted makes a difference in the serps.

My results are dropping steadily every day now. a site:domain.com search now shows 2,100 results, down from 38,000+ I expect soon it will disappear altogether. I haven't received a referral from MSN in 11 days.

[subsia]

Spander
I have the same exact situation.
All started with home page and now the rest of pages one by one.

[msndude]

Have you guys followed our directions on what to do if you think your site has been removed?

[search.msn.com...]

Remember that the crawler sometimes loses pages but not entire sites. If your whole site appears to be steadily declining, it's most likely that it's been identified as spam by one means or another.

As long as the volume of requests is small, I can check these for you myself (and correct them if there's been a mistake), provided you send me a private "sticky" with your URL in it. No guarantees though, so if you do that, do it AFTER you've completed the official process.

Hope that helps.

[tictoc]

I have the same problem in MSN Search. My site is not showing up for its main domain name. I sent an email to the one listed on that page.