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Today whole site has disappeared from Google, NOTHING in cache, NOTHING indexed, NO referals.
1) I saw the Fresh Tag on index page on 6th May
2) Index not in Cache on 8th may
3) Whole site about 300 Pages out of Google / completely disappeared, nothing in cache.
Can this be a Sudden Death Penalty? what could be the possible reasons?
I can rule out that BAD links is not at all a problem.
Since I dont want to give a chance to Google to say I have Dupe, this site is completely disallowed for crawling.
Further, Google has not hit this site (royal*****) for past several months.
The index page has been dropped, I did a "unique keyword site:www.mysite.com" search for the index page no page returned, the rest of the site returns results.
Can you sticky me how did you concluded that only index is dropped?
Can anybody explain this--
- I had 238 Backlinks, out of which approx 200 were from this site itself
Now when I see my Backlinks...it still says 238 Backlinks...BUT DO NOT SHOW LINKS FROM THIS SITE ITSELF... which were shown earlier.
Earlier = till 6th may
Server Response: http://www.royal****.tld/robots.txt
Status: HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 09:10:46 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.29 (Unix) ...
Server Response: http://www.real****.tld/robots.txt
Status: HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 09:11:18 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.27 (Unix) ...
... per Server Header Checker [searchengineworld.com].
am i mistaking somewhere?
real***** is not using robots.txt
I reconfirmerd using the Logs of royal**** that Googlebot never asked for robots.txt even for past few months.
Can anybody explain this--
- I had 238 Backlinks, out of which approx 200 were from this site itself
Now when I see my Backlinks...it still says 238 Backlinks...BUT DO NOT SHOW LINKS FROM THIS SITE ITSELF... which were shown earlier.
Earlier = till 6th may
[edited by: Ppintr at 4:47 pm (utc) on May 13, 2004]
But its also fine... there is/was no problem from Server at all.
Well, your site seems to be penalized for duplicate content.
1) Type the following in google search box>
"The Land of Rich Heritage, Colors and Traditions brings out the most of regal experiences. Check out the mood of various Destinations in Rajasthan, most liked and appreciated by Travelers around the globe."
2) Your site has content which is duplicated on your Sri Lanka travel site & also on the eGlobe Hotels site.
How does Google or Y! go about deleting one of two dupes? The older one should stay....but is this how it works?
I dint notice that the Bugger has Copied whole Termplates!
BUT I bet those Opening Lines and content has been written by me Personally!
Still I wonder...Copying my Graphics/Website Proto and few Lines text would make any Penalty, and on Top of it...its that site which Copied ours.
I dont know how Google can ignore such a big Fact?
Am really sunk now.
This is the Template on 29th May 2003 and that Bugger's Domain was registered on 23rd Oct. 2003.
I have nothing more to say,
I 100% disagree that I can be penalized for Duplicacy.
(Mods. it was necessary to post the URL, please remove if its not appropriate)
[edited by: Marcia at 8:25 pm (utc) on May 18, 2004]
What does your SEO company say?
Well, thats SEDed by us inhoue, and we certainly have no clue on this.
But i am sure its no way related to Dupe.
If your site is the older one, and you have been chucked out, this is bad.
Before anything else, please find a legal-sounding threatening letter and and mail them, asking them to cease and desist. Find a long one. Anyone here got a format with them?
Back to your site being banned - Google is supposed to be good at recognising which is the older site. If this happened to you, we all could get into trouble.
Folks, any ideas?
I dont feel this would trigger Penalty on either.
Though, I have already shooted a mail, and already threatened that chap on Phone.
But lets get back to topic..I seriously need help!
So, thanks for the heads-up.
And I hope it works out. If you can stick it to 'im, go ape, for all of us. Parasititc thieving m-f'ers...
But am, still waiting for justice, I had lost a Site in Slow Death and now this one in Suddent Death.
Havent seen GoogleGuy around?
Google Bot aint crawling either
I've found them to be extremely helpful.
I had a case recently where I was hacked two days in a row ... they completely defaced my Nuke area, my forum, my guestbook and my weblog. I was crawled before I found out about it and my ranking went down terribly. When I repaired the site ... I was hacked again the next day.
I finally installed a wonderful security system ... but kept getting hackalert notices and one of them was foolish enough not to hide his referrer ... and I tracked it back to a forum where they had posted a direct sql injection link to my site (prior to my patch of that particular method) ....
Anyway ... several search engines still had me listed as "Micca OWNS you" instead of my actual title.
I was thoroughly upset about it ... and even more so that my site had went from between 6 - 7 PR down to less than 3! And I've had at least a PR of 5 since the site opened.
Anyway, I contacted Google and gave them the information, explaining that it WAS possible for someone to affect the PR of another persons site .. and I provided the information and links that I had to verify my statements.
I was immediately restored back to my original PR.
I'd recommend writing them. They always respond quickly and they are very helpful.
In any case ... goodluck!
This sounds like nothing more than a case of cross linking with the same content on multiple sites. You say you have a robots that does not allow links following, but a 404 is returned for robots.txt.
You screwed around with cross linking and you got caught, and now very little you do is going to make any change quickly. Cut out the cross linking, maybe find some other links, and with some luck you will be re-included in google in the next 10 years.
The only thing I can think of that might have tripped a filter is renaming the anchor text of back-links to the home page from "Home" to the title of the website, which is a 2 word phrase. This is not exactly SPAM, but I guess you never know with Google.
One of my sites is ranked #2 in Yahoo for a very competitive key phrase, but nowhere to be found in Google. So I'll reduce the keyword density and rename all my backlinks to generic fluff, and see what happens in a couple of months.
"This sounds like nothing more than a case of cross linking with the same content on multiple sites. You say you have a robots that does not allow links following, but a 404 is returned for robots.txt."
Thanks for your advice but you must have mistaken,
1) My Mirrored site royal***** has not been crawaled for last 7 Months (Logs say this)
So there is No question of having or not having robots.txt
2) I dont have Dupelicate Content sites and on top of it they are not INTERLINKED just for the sake of Linking and Pumping PR....very rare Interlinking. FYI
I just have 5 Sites which or on different Subjects.
Comparing with Scam of Webmasters owing 100s site on same IP and Interlinked playing well on Google rules out my possibility of triggering a Penalty for Logical Interlinking.
Still , I would appreciate if you could sticky me the exact fault you finded.
3) I am due to pay 23US$ to Google for Adwords for last 3 Monts for a Campaign ran for this site....can that be a reason of Google banning it?
Donny n Cherie
