Repeatedly getting dropped from google?

[downhiller80]

We've now been dropped from google for the third time in as many months. The first two times were due to errors that may have resulted in pages that google thought were in violation of its guidelines. We fixed the errors and submitted reinclusion requests and within 2 weeks were back up and running.

This time though (just 2 weeks after traffic resumed) we've not changed anything on the site since we were reincluded, but we appear to have been dropped again.

What possibly explanation is there for this? Why would google like us one day and not the next? We fear we have a stubs issue with some of the pages on our site, but if that was the case then we woukldn't have been successful in our reinclusion request would we?

Anyone have any ideas, or how better we can find out what's going on?

Cheers

[outland88]

This sounds like a rather new site. Was Google directly informing you they were correcting something or did you make the assumption once the site resurfaced?

[jimbeetle]

but we appear to have been dropped again

Not really much there to go on, downiller80. Read through Tedster's second post in this thread [webmasterworld.com]. It should help focus on some possible symptoms.

stubs issue

If there is other valuable content on the site stubbs shouldn't really affect other pages except themselves, possibly being filtered in SERPs as dupe content.

[downhiller80]

outland88: just coming up to a year old. Was fine for 6 months or so, then problems. Google hasn't directly contacted us at any point, neither to say we're being penalised nor to say that we've been reincluded. As I understand it it's normal not to hear anything?

[downhiller80]

jimbeetle, from tedsters post:

1) Yes pages do still show up with site:domain.com search, and at least 1000 are viewable (i.e. not in supplementals).

2) Yes site does still rank #1 for "domain.com" or just "domain" even.

3) "Does a search for relatively unique phrases taken from your title tags return your URL relatively high"
Hard to say, very vague question, I think so.

Come to think of it we DID make a change to the site - added an RSS feed to the news page. That can't be at fault can it?