5 year old page still indexed. but no longer ranking for anything.

Something I've never seen before.

[Perfection]

I have a small (65 page) 5 year old site that has never had any problems on Google. Yesterday I noticed something that could be considered a problem, or at the very least, interesting in a bad way.

One page (domain.com/widget.html) of the 65 fully indexed pages has stopped ranking for every single possible search. It shows up like usual for site:domain.com but doesn't show up at all for anything else. This includes every search term it was previously in the top 10 for, whole unique sentences from this page in quotes, and the page title in quotes.

Anyone ever see this before or know what happened and/or why it happened?

Thanks in advance.

[reseller]

Perfection

My guess. I have noticed recently that the folks at the plex mightbe testing some filters. As a result ranking of pages are in Everflux. One day up the next day nowhere.

Btw, is that page by any way containes a duplicate ofanother content on your site or on the web. Maybe an article, product description etc...
Because, I have a test showing that duplicates are deindexed.

Another question; has that page lost its PR?

[Perfection]

reseller, the PR of the page is still the same (PR6). The page itself is an article written by me, so it's all unique content.

Of course, there are many (literally 100's) of extremely low quality/spammy sites that have stolen the content of this page since it has existed, but this has been the case for 5 years now. The same is true for every page of this site, and it's only this 1 page having the problem.

[reseller]

Perfection

I hope I'm wrong and my test which has shown with no reasonable doubt that Google is deindexing what it regards/sees as duplicate content, is wrong too.

But if I'm right on this one, you shall see Google either continue not ranking the said page anymore or even deindexing it.

Wish you the best.

[annej]

I've had this happen a couple of times. An old highly ranking content page just plunges in the serps. I could find the page if I searched a bit of the content in "" but for all practical purposes it was lost.

The first time this happened I just gave it a new URL and it soon came back to the top. When I lost another page more recently I was advised againt doing that as it could look like duplicate copy these days. I concentrated on getting more direct links to it and it is finally back but only after months.

It must just be another wierd Google glitch. I have no idea if anything I did even helped.