Resources: For Sudden Problems In Google Ranking

[tedster]

As caveman (moderator for our Search Engine Poromotion forum) once wrote , One of the most common themes of posting here in WW starts something like: "Last night, my site disappeared..."

"Losing" a site can be a painful and frustrating experience. I want to collect links for our best references in one spot -- those threads that can give you ideas of things to check and what you can do to address the situatrion once you identify a potential problem.

The following three address both drops in rank, where some small amount of search traffic remains, and the a complete disappearance from the index with the resulting no search traffic.

Checklist for Sudden Drops in Rank [webmasterworld.com]
Dropped from Google - a checklist to find out why [webmasterworld.com]
Dropped Site Checklist [webmasterworld.com]

Feel free to reply to this thread -- I will edit out side comments in the future so we end up with a nice, concentrated "Library quality" thread.

[tedster]

Another problem that gets reported frequently -- pages suddenly showing no title or description. The dreaded url-only listing.

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