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The previous domain was sold and a new domain was purchased.
That old domain was aliased for a few months to the new domain, then the site was updated, put on a new server. The old domain was also hosted elsewhere by the new owners.
When the site was under its old name it had tens of thousands of indexed url's and high pagerank. Now the replacement site has zero url's indexed.
One thing that may have been a problem was the introduction of a few new files that were being used to experiment with internal searches. These files were essentially a boatload of links to actual site pages. I surmised that maybe google perceived these as illegal doorway pages and have recently removed them.
I submitted a reconsideration request but have yet to hear back.
I used google's python sitemap generator and successfully submitted the sitemap, with 30k url's, and google accepted it with no errors/warnings.
Looking at the access logs, I see that the google bot is accessing the site but not really crawling it.
Also, looking at google crawl statistics, they were quite high until mid-February at which time they flatlined.
Has anyone else experienced something like this? Any tips would be greatly appreciated.
[edited by: tedster at 8:52 pm (utc) on April 17, 2009]
[edit reason] make domain names anonynous [/edit]
Was your new domain name previously online - even several years ago? Check the history at archive.org to see what kind of previous use may have been made.
If you see spamminess, it's very possible that your new domain has a historical "spam flag" at Google. When you submit a reconsideration request, it's good to mention that fact and also that you are a new owner.
