No page ranking and no cached pages

[HelpRequired]

Created a new website last year and although never appearing in any search results (despite extensive SEO work, including link building) the homepage and additional pages have always had a good page ranking.

However, the page ranking has now dropped to 0 and checking the cached statues of the page i have been informed that there is no cached version. Further research using googles status site wizard has informed me the last time a googlebot accessed the homepage was several months ago!

I have an xml sitemap that was loaded into google back in June.

So any advice on what to do next? has this happened to anyone? Is google in the middle of doing an update, as i have had several problems across a couple of my sites today?

[g1smd]

What do you get for site:www.domain.com and for site:domain.com now?

What about a site:domain.com -inurl:www search? What does that show?

[HelpRequired]

google is bringing up pages from my website when i do all your suggested commands. However, it is not returning the homepage, which is were the ranking has dropped and is the page that has not been cached since february!

I did notice yesterday that there was some coldfusion tag code commented out which had been dumped at the very top of the html code on this page. I am not sure how long or how it got there, I have since removed it and re-submitted my sitemaps to Google. Do you think this code may have been stopping the googlebots from accessing the page?

[Alex70]

>>>Do you think this code may have been stopping the googlebots from accessing the page? <<<
the only way I know to stop googlebot from spidering is to place a robots.txt, comments can't do that

[g1smd]

There are some types of on-page "code accidents" that can stop spiders indexing content, but this is unlikely to be the problem here.

[tedster]

Are you by any chance redirecting the domain name to a longer url? -- that is, not resolving www.example.com directly?

[HelpRequired]

in reply to tedster's post: No i am not re-directing the post it is just a straight forward URL www.domain.com. I am slowly running out of things to try, but please keep the suggestions coming in, everything helps.

[HelpRequired]

in reply to tedster's post: No i am not re-directing the post it is just a straight forward URL www.domain.com. I am slowly running out of things to try, but please keep the suggestions coming in, everything helps.