Forum Moderators: Robert Charlton & goodroi
I noticed that our site's home page has suddenly been pulled from Google SERPS, although the page's PR still displays a 6/10 and other pages within the site continue to be indexed.
After a bit of research, I noticed that Google appears to have indexed an affiliate link that directs to our home page (link is something like [site.com...] When I search for an exact text string that is present on our home page, rather than returning the actual home page, the affiliate link shows in results.
Is it possible that Google has considered the affiliate link as a duplicate page, and as a result eliminated our actual home page? If so, is anyone aware of how to alert Google of our mistake? I'll drop the affiliate link immediately, as appearing in SERPS is far more important to me than tracking this particular affiliate. I'm aware of the ability to remove a specific page from Google, however I'm afraid that my request to remove [site.com...] might be misinterpreted as a request to remove [site.com....]
HELP!
Thanks in advance.
Doug
>>I'm aware of the ability to remove a specific page from Google, however I'm afraid that my request to remove [site.com...] might be misinterpreted as a request to remove [site.com.<<...]
This is a very risky business, I wouldn´t do it.
We made sure that the site containing the link changed the link to point to just www.site.com/. We set up an Apache mod rewrite rule that forced the user to www.site.com/ and returned a 301 error when attempting to access www.site.com/?aff_id. We also added /?aff_id to our robots.txt.
Never heard back from Google regarding our inquiry, however fortunately we're back in results after roughly a week.
