Forum Moderators: Robert Charlton & goodroi
I have a customer site (UK business, site hosted in AU, with .com domain - no geo target set in GWT) - was ranking in top 5 results in UK for a wide range of terms in its industry. Last week it disappeared altogether from the ranks. GWT shows no errors, site:sitename.com shows all the pages results. If I search on:
keyword site:sitename.com
...matches the terms.
No matter how general or specific the phrase searched on Google (including pasting like a whole sentence in "" into G) - their results don't show.
I'm scratching my head? Could it be duplicate content - their site is unique, but some of their product descriptions are from the manufacturer and matched on (many) other eComm stores - but even for info page on their site - they don't show up? Could it be some penalty and GWT hasn't updated yet to show it?
Anyone got any suggestions on how I could drill into this further to find out what's wrong? I've scanned listings down to 1000+ to look for a 950 penalty or similar.
Tks in advance for any suggestions,
Phil
For some ideas about areas you can investigate, see the Hot Topics area [webmasterworld.com], which is always pinned to the top of this forum's index page.
are you perhaps redirecting from a blank .net version of the domain to the main .com version ?
Will also question the client about recent directory additions to directory.clientname.com to see if they've been less than careful with who they linked out to (but I would have thought that would affect directory.clientname.com rather than www.clientname.com). Tks for the tips Tedster.
Any other suggestions welcome (I'm busily reading hot topics threads on penalties).
