Backlinks in Google disappeared

need some pro advice

[aleksl]

Hi guys,

Many same posts here, so short, please advice from pros, or point to a thread to read.

This just had happen to one of our ecommerce sites - "link:www.domain.com" returns nothing. "allinurl:" and "inurl:" and "site:" returns what it should. Pages are in Google, but site is nowhere to be found for the main KW. Not a very competitive niche.

Main page is PR4 (should be at least PR5 if not 6, we have several 6 and 7 pointing to us, and on occasion I see PR change to 6 for subcategory pages, but not for main site).

The suspect: I own another site which is currently banned (nothing too bad, dup content but I don't care as it serves its purpose to humans), and that site has links on every page pointing back to the site in question, all with rel=nofollow. Can it be not all G it drums up to be? I don't really see other bad signs.

[rkhare]

it seems nothing much to worry, its on and off for me too since last night (I am PST + 13.50 hours) so almost 24 hours now

[aleksl]

Thanks for the answer. I blocked Gbot from that other site in question completely last night. Backlinks are back today, don't think it's related though.

Still nowhere to be found for the main KW, but that could be a different reason as well.

[jdancing]

Do a large percentage of the text links pointing to your site use the keyword that you no longer rank for?

[aleksl]

do you mean overall, or from that other site?

btw links have disappeared again. if it's just a fluke - that "link:" command on Google has been proven unreliable so far, and now it is utterly useless.