Forum Moderators: Robert Charlton & goodroi
My problem is the same as many on this board. My site, which is eight months old and was steadily building up visitors via search engine results, lost almost all of its pages on the index around August 4 as far as I can tell (I was on holiday when it actually happened).
I run my site on blog software, which is easy to use and helps me create a decent little site without needing to get too involved in the mechanics of the whole thing. I have friends with hugely successful blogs on the same platform (TypePad), none of whom have lost pages in Google's search results.
From around 150 pages indexed, I dropped to 20 around August 4, and steadily dropped as the days passed. Now only my home page is listed and my hits have dried up.
I haven't changed anything on my site except to add new stories every weekday and sometimes twice a day. I changed the banner for the summer, but I don't see how this would have any effect.
I have contacted TypePad but they say nobody else has mentioned this, but on forums like this I read about many, many sites disappearing almost totally, causing a lot of problems.
Is this something that will just resolve itself? I really want to write stories for my website's readers rather than worry about how Google views it and using blog software limits what can be done anyway.
Anybody who can offer anything, I'd love to hear from you. My site is <edited> and it has a page rank of 5.
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[edited by: tedster at 7:27 pm (utc) on Aug. 31, 2006]
Traffic is slowly beginning to climb again...
