I've vanished from google

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I've vanished from google

Can't find my site using url:www.mysite.com

steve

4:01 pm on Mar 17, 2003 (gmt 0)

Up until today I've been listed in google.

Gogglebot visited me yesterday, now I've vanished.

I can't find mysite using url:www.mysite.com

Last week I vanished from yahoo, aol and netscape.

Is anyone else having a similar problem?

Birdman

4:10 pm on Mar 17, 2003 (gmt 0)

Just search for www.yoursite.com. Leave the url: bit off.

takagi

4:11 pm on Mar 17, 2003 (gmt 0)

Looks same problem as in the "from PR 4 to 0 and white toolbar [webmasterworld.com]" thread.

steve

4:26 pm on Mar 17, 2003 (gmt 0)

Just tried a search for www.mysite.com on google which resulted in:

'Sorry, no information is available for the URL'

so I've obviously been removed, but I don't know why

HenryUK

4:57 pm on Mar 17, 2003 (gmt 0)

Steve, when did you last definitively see that your site was included? Is it possible that you have not checked for a while and your site was dropped in the last update?

It seems to me that there would be a significant difference between the site not making the cut in an update (happened to me, followed by six weeks' sweating, followed by reinclusion) and being dropped *between* updates...

colinf

9:00 pm on Mar 17, 2003 (gmt 0)

Steve,
try using:

+www.mysite.com

it won't tell you where your pages are, but it will tell you how many are registered

colin

colinf

9:03 pm on Mar 17, 2003 (gmt 0)

Steve,
try using:

+www.mysite.com

it won't tell you where your pages are, but it will tell you how many are registered

colin

steve

8:24 am on Mar 18, 2003 (gmt 0)

Colinf

Thanks for the suggestion.

One page is shown, which I removed 6 months ago!

19 other pages are shown for sites linking to me.

steve

8:26 am on Mar 18, 2003 (gmt 0)

Hello HenryUK

I saw a drop off from Google on Saturday 8 March.

I'm pretty sure I've been removed, but how do I find out why?

steve

8:54 am on Mar 18, 2003 (gmt 0)

PR for my whole site is 0.

How do I get back into Google?

Susanne

8:57 am on Mar 18, 2003 (gmt 0)

Check like this:
allinurl:www.yoursite.com site:www.yoursite.com
Put the whole line in the search field and you'll se all, if any, indexed pages. Cheers!

steve

9:07 am on Mar 18, 2003 (gmt 0)

Tried allinurl....

Result 'Your search - site:www.yoursite.com allinurl:www.yoursite.com - did not match any documents.

Susanne

9:31 am on Mar 18, 2003 (gmt 0)

steve,
Try again!
It happens to me all the time. When you type in the line and send, sometimes Google messes it up, especially if you type it in the toolbar field. So, instead of searching like this:
allinurl:www.yoursite.com site:www.yoursite.com
Google makes a sommersault and searches like this:
site:www.yoursite.com allinurl:www.yoursite.com
and everything goes kaputt!
Go to Google's HOME PAGE and try searching again. Make sure the result is correct by checking the search field after you've done the search. Good luck! :)

takagi

10:04 am on Mar 18, 2003 (gmt 0)

Hi steve, if your site is in 'Google Directory', did it drop there too? Or does it still show some green bar?

HenryUK

10:10 am on Mar 18, 2003 (gmt 0)

Right, so you dropped out in the last update.

There are a whole lot of reasons that could have caused this.

There are a LOT of people who assume that their site dropping out, or losing PageRank, or even falling a few positions in the SERPS means that Google has "penalised" them.

To my mind they are wrong in the vast majority of cases.

One reason, for example, might be that your server was down or not responding when the deepcrawl Googlebot came to call in early February. Check your logs - were you crawled by the deepcrawl bot? Do the logs show any other kind of problem? Did it manage to pick up your home page successfully. Look for anything unusual...

This seems to me to be the most likely cause.

OK, so how do you maximise your chances of a speedy return?

1) Clean up your site. Follow the Google guidelines and get rid of anything they say they don't like.

2) Follow as best you can the great advice on this forum about building a good, SE-friendly site.

3) If you have multiple domains pointing at your site, pick the one that you want to run with and put the others on a 301 redirect to it, again much advice on this forum as to how.

4) Sort out your hosting if it needs sorting.

5) Having done all this, submit a reinclusion request to search-quality@google.com.

6) Don't let up while you wait for the next update. Keep cleaning the site and getting good links back to your site.

My main site dropped out in the January update and apart from sweating and panicking, I also followed steps 1-6 as best I could. The site returned in the last update with better rank and more backlinks than before, and my referrals have doubled.

Best of luck

Henry

steve

12:07 pm on Mar 18, 2003 (gmt 0)

I've read the faqs and forum library, the 26 ways to build your site is great.

I'm going to spend some time cleaning up and improving my site.

Then prehaps I'll reappear in google....eventually.

The only thing that worries me is have inadvertently done something google doesn't like? In which case I assume I'm unlikely to get re-listed.

Time will tell.

Thank you for all the advice

Steve