Home Page dropped out of .au index

[M_Bison]

All of a sudden, our home page seems to have disapearred when the "Pages from Australia" option is selected.

Our domain is a .com (not .com.au), is hosted in Australia, and has not changed IP address for a few years.

We are used to having our pages dropped from the index, however, this time is different because our page has never disappeared from the "Pages from Australia" SERPs, plus:

-our site is fifth for a search for "widgets" on google.com.au, ~30th on google.com, yet doesn't appear when "Pages from Australia" is selected.
-a search for "blue widgets" brings up www.ourdomain.com/subpage/ as one of the results.
-a search for the exact company name with "Pages from Australia" brings up more sub-pages, but not the home page.

Should I be worried?

[daveVk]

Try a tool like www.parsec.it/whereis/ to see IP location. I am in similar situation my australian server shows as in texas? Dont know how accurate tool is or if G uses same method to determine location.

Dave

[opifex]

servers..... location is not always as it seems... on of the more popular hosting companies in mexico has its servers in virginia and also in thailand. my mexico servers are in mexico city with a backup in ohio ,,,,

[nippi]

Happened 2-3 days ago?

Same thing happened to me for an au site, dropped 50 places, no apaprent reason, has regained 10 places per day since the drop.

I reckon don't worry, do nothing.

[M_Bison]

one thing i should mention is that the site is hosted on our own server, colocated in the same city (perth, australia) we are in.

[UK_Web_Guy]

I've been seeing similar things when .co.uk selected for some uk based sites - they go missing when selected.

I think there's just a few geo-targeting bugs out there at the moment.

These things usually correct themselves.

[daveVk]

Bison

Chances are your IP address, was allocated from a pool registered to your ISP. Has your ISP been taken over, moved, or registration details changed? Would check IP address registration, think this is what G uses. Then again it could just be a glitch.

[M_Bison]

nope, ISP hasn't been taken over. Their details on APNIC haven't changed at all.

[fishfinger]

There's another related thread to do with Google UK results not showing sites that feature in the US index.

I think this could be something Google is rolling out to do with IBL location.

Do the majority of your links come from .au sites? or sites hosted in Australia?

[M_Bison]

re IBLs; we have a mixture of both IBLs from overseas and Australia.

We have links from local industry specific organisations, as well as community organisations we sponsor and universities (all .au). Not to mention we sponsor an industry specific .au forum which results in our ads (and links to our web page) being displayed on every page.

Most of our reciprocal links (about 20 of them) are from overseas.

[M_Bison]

It's back now :)