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For a couple days now, my page isn't anywhere to be found in the SERPs for "blue widget", but is still #1 for "red widget". But the bulk of my ad income results from the "blue widget" queries, so I am really hurting.
I have seen this several times before, and each time my page has reappeared in the top ten after several days. Also, log file analysis shows I am still getting a few referrals for "blue widget" from Google, but reduced by a factor of a hundred.
Is there anything I can do to prevent or fix this? Each time it happens I can't be sure my rank will be restored, so it's really scary.
Thanks!
Two weeks ago, over 90% of our pages dropped from top positions to #90, #115, #150, etc, for no apparent reason. But some of our pages, seemingly at random, were still in their regular top positions. I decided to sit tight (nervously!) and change nothing. Then two days later, they started creeping back into position, and after four days, they were all pretty much back up where they were.
It just happened again yesterday afternoon. 90% dropped again, seemingly randomly. So I'm going to change nothing and wait.
Not sure what Google's doing lately, but it doesn't seem to have a pattern. I have to imagine that when you're working with that much data, temporary glitches and/or data loss is bound to happen. I don't believe it's based on an algorithm change, however. I have seen various competitors suddenly disappear then reappear a couple of days later during December. So rather than panic, I'm just sitting tight to see what happens.
XZ
Not sure what Google's doing lately,
I said to expect those (roughly monthly) updates to become more of a daily thing. That data refresh became more frequent (roughly daily instead of every 3-4 weeks or so) well over a month ago.
It looks as if they go through the whole re ranking and the index can't keep up or due to the threatened everflux, the movement is so massive that some sites are taken down as the variation brings the mean down, as the reranking can't keep up somehow. Increased frequence can also lead to chaos already in simple systems. Look for logistic equation and chaos.
This www.domain.com/index.html page had had #1 rank for 2 years. Today it's gone from the serps.
Cant find it ANYWHERE for my keyword.
But doing an URL search for it, it's still indexed.
Anyone had similar experiences?
[edited by: tedster at 12:50 pm (utc) on Dec. 24, 2006]
Read these:
20 Dec 2006 - Data Refresh or Penalty?
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Dec 15 - Google Results Changes?
[webmasterworld.com...]
Dec 7 - sudden drop in rankings (part 2)
[webmasterworld.com...]
Yep.
Traffic has declined over 3 days to 0 from Google. Checked webmaster tools this morning and it said 'No pages from your site are currently included in Googles index'. Oh dear...
Checked again this afternoon and it now said 'Pages from your site are included in Google's index'. Go figure...
However, still have not got one single visitor traffic from Google.
Everything on my site is clean, have a few aff links but the only thing that I thought was dubious was some Text Link Ads which I removed last night.
XZ
nail and head
The disappearing and reappearing of pages has been happening since April. For months I put it down to me tinkering though I'm not so sure now as I decidied to STOP tinkering, leave it alone and see what happens.
It's still happening.
I'm not sure if it's me or Google.
I was doing lots of different things, one after the other. Maybe it needs more time for google to see a more 'settled' site.
It can be very frustrating at times, though I have come to accept the fact and the google traffic is treated as a bonus.
One question I have is - how often are you guys changing stuff around (on page factors)?
