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My site is removed from Google SERPs Without Any Penalty or DMCA

         

Ahtesham08

8:55 am on Sep 4, 2021 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



My entire website has been completely removed from Google's index last night. I have no info or mail on what happened. We have the largest database of celeb news and pics and we had close to 140k page views per day. We checked GSC no messages there, we checked all our mails for DMCA, no mails there. What could be the reason?

Wilburforce

5:02 pm on Sep 4, 2021 (gmt 0)

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My entire website has been completely removed from Google's index last night.


How do you know this? Are all pages missing in GSC? Are the pages deindexed, or just missing from SERPs? What about other SEs?

If the site has been removed without warning or notice, check first for pilot-error and unauthorised access (hacking): obviously you or anyone else with access can block some or all pages in GSC, but anyone with server-access can also do it in the HEAD section of individual pages, globally in the root-directory .htaccess file, or locally in subdirectory .htaccess files. Check all of these, if you haven't already. However, changed individual pages wouldn't usually disappear all at once (when was your last googlebot crawl, and what was crawled?).

The site could be deindexed without (or before you receive) communication from Google if there are incontravertible DCMA violations or for posting - do you allow UGC? - illegal or defamatory content. If that has happened, you can expect to receive an email within a day or two, but from the perspective of someone who has been on the receiving end of and reported many DCMA and trade mark infringements, I'd be surprised if anyone reporting either of these had been instantly and suddenly effective in your case. Illegal or defamatory content is about all I can think of that would be acted on at once and/or without notice.

Most likely, I think, it will turm out to be a temporary glitch, but these can often go on for weeks (Google removed my UK-based .com site from UK DCs and results for over a month as part of a location-based results experiments some years ago). For now, going forensic on your server logs will probably tell you more than anyone here can.

edit: corrected typo

tangor

7:47 am on Sep 5, 2021 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member Top Contributors Of The Month



This caught my attention:

"We have the largest database of celeb news and pics and we had close to 140k page views per day."

Are you an authorized site to have such news and images? Was this 100% your own text and image content?

With the corona times, lost revenues for the entertainment companies, etc., it is quite likely hammers will fall to protect their content. Obvious infringement might not even get a DMCA notice, or even ISPs might be addressed. Just asking!

jonas_911

11:49 am on Sep 15, 2021 (gmt 0)



Check here: lumendatabase.org

All DMCA takedown requests were archived in the database.


Mod's note: Adding this description of "Lumen Database" from Wikipedia....
Lumen, formerly Chilling Effects, is an American collaborative archive created by Wendy Seltzer and founded along with several law school clinics and the Electronic Frontier Foundation to protect lawful online activity from legal threats. Lumen is a "project" of the Berkman Klein Center


[edited by: Robert_Charlton at 5:18 am (utc) on Sep 28, 2021]
[edit reason] Added description for link [/edit]