Top results - now banished completely

[lloydforth]

I have had no. 1 rankings for 3-4 search terms for the last 5 months but as of last week my site has been banished from google. If i search for the full url i get back a result but on trying to click through it says server not found (probably due to the www. part missing as when you hover over the link its not there).

Could a competitor have used a remove url feature i have read about?

[cynicaldog]

<< Google can stop it, but won't. Why not? >>

After spending a day reading hundreds of posts on the subject, the answer to your question is:

a) the thieves put AdSense on their sites so Google makes money from all the extra, duplicate pages in the index

b) we're now forced to buy AdWords to get traffic to our sites, so Google makes money

c) Google makes money

[stevelibby]

Thank you for looking at my site, i have also been searching around for ideas as to why my home page is not being updated, yet the rest of my site is, the story now is that the home does no longer exist.
Noticed something over the past few days, when i search site:domain.co.uk it shows .htm files with the cached date of nov 2004, this was about the time i went from .htm to .asp! could it be that google has turned the clock back to far and is looking at these .htm and then looking for .html instead of index.asp, only a theory but with a try.
Now how do i resolve this www - non www out?

[stinkfoot]

c) Google makes money

Googel is an amoral entitiy now with one thing in mind, profits for its shareholders. There is only one way of getting your own back .. use other search engines.

MSN is my favourite at the moment and you know .. it isnt effected by any of this www and non www rubbish or 301 duplicate content redirects or PR

Now thats what I call utopia!

[stevelibby]

I totally agree with you, but unfortunatley google is the mama that you just have to be on.

[reseller]

stevelibby

>>Now how do i resolve this www - non www out? <<

You may wish to take a look at this thread, especially what Clint wrote in msg #:49:

[webmasterworld.com...]

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IF you want the 301 redirect from non-www to www, you should have this in your .htaccess file:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} .
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}!^www\.MyDomain\.com
RewriteRule (.*) [MyDomain.com...] [R=301,L]
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I hope this helps

[stevelibby]

Hi
To the best of my knowledge windows server doesnt have ahtacess? or does it?

[reseller]

stevelibby

I suggest you post your request on this forum

[webmasterworld.com...]

And I'm sure the folks there will help ;-)