Was in the index for a 3 days, then gone?

[dfreeman]

We recently launched our new site <edited> on the 19th of June. This site is all original hand entered content, news, and reviews about <a specific product>. I submitted the site to google and yahoo, submission and sitemaps. Google and yahoo put our root page in the index about 3 days after submission. We also just submitted to google base, which our items are listed on. We were indexed in all of the google main index datacenters for that main page for 3 days. For some reason today we are GONE from the main google index. And, yes I checked all of the datacenters.

I can understand this on some spam site, but a site that is 100% unique content?

Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks in advance..

-dave

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[edited by: tedster at 8:29 pm (utc) on June 29, 2006]

[brizad]

Hi dfreeman,

Welcome to the board. The first tip that I will give you is to *always search the forums* to see if your question has already been answered.

In your case you would have found your question answered about a billion and a half times before ;-)

But anyway...what you have described is extremely common. Don't worry about it. Your site will probably come back in a few months. If you'd like to know why this happens you can do a search on the board and you'll find many answers.

Good luck with it! :-)

[Quadrille]

Actually you do need to worry.

Submitting your site to search engines is a complete waste of time, and will invariably result in short-term listings, with no return later.

Search engines much prefer to find your site via links from other sites; once you have links, you'll be found and listed.

Start with quality directories. And search the forums for more details as suggested above :)