Ok, so I own/manage about 2 dozen different sites. Some of my sites are affiliate based, some are adense only, some just informational. Or a combination. Some use CMS, some static, different hosting, etc.
Over the weekend I noticed w/alarm about half of them being totally de-indexed by google. No site: results, no link: results, nada.
So, going through them all, some of them I rarely update or touch. Looking for malware, etc,. These all run original content about pretty bland topics, ecom, etc.
I did notice one thing they had in common. All of the de-indexed sites except one run adsense. All of the still-indexed sites (except one) DON'T run adsense.
{That one seems to be running some sort of 3rd party adsense ad.}
Looked at the sites I have in WMT, nothing really shows, except one site showed a Guidelines Violation warning. But when I checked a few minutes later, the warning was gone.
I don't participate in link schemes, spamming, any of that. most of these sites aren't linked to any other ones. I did notice a 2x spike in adsense earnings a few days earlier. Now it's about 1/10th.(adsense acct. is still working)
So...has anyone here experienced this kind of thing? What did you do? Should I file reconsideration reports en-masse? Earnings-wise, I'd give up my adsense acct. in a heartbeat to get those sites re-indexed.
