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I have contact our webmaster, anybody I know that does SEO work and nobody can figure out why we were dropped from google.
We have a informational site for people invovled with CRM. We provide free webcasts, white papers etc. Until recently we were on the first two pages in most of our terms, not even using an SEO, just due to the links of others to our site and information. We changed our site look in Sept. I thought we were just not indexed and it would come up on the next go-round. It has now been a few months. I got this response from google.
"Thank you for your note. Your page has been blocked from our index because it does not meet the quality standards necessary to assign accurate PageRank. We cannot comment on the individual reasons your page was removed. However, certain actions such as cloaking, writing text in such a way that it can be seen by search engines but not by users, or setting up pages/links with the sole purpose of fooling search engines may result in permanent removal from our index. Please read our Webmaster Guidelines at [google.com...] for more information."
THis seemed like a form to me. We changed the name of our site about 5 years ago so we still have the url of the old name and another url with a frequenlty misspelled version of our name. Years ago we had multiple url to keep track of differnet advertising promotions, but we have stopped all those links.
They have (0) phone support. I have emailed them to ask what they percieve that we are doing wrong and get variations of the same email back.
Can anybody help?
ALso, as a public company isn't there a responsiblity to let a company know that if they are dropped why? The rules I would think are different from public companies than private companies.
Has anybody attempted a class action suite against them. It seems that as I go through some of these forums, google will drop companies that have no idea why.
ALso, as a public company isn't there a responsiblity to let a company know that if they are dropped why? The rules I would think are different from public companies than private companies.
Nope - why should a public company, exempt from many of the financial responsibilities of a sole trader, get favourable treatment?
And why should Google have any responsibility to notify a company, any more than when I take picture with my camera, I might be "required" to write to all the unknown members of the public who might feature in it?
And, at a less cerebral level, why *should* big business push small business into the dirt?
DerekH
Check to see if these other domain names are on a 301 permanent redirect, you may be giving googlebot duplicate content from the domains pointing to your main site.
Instead of issuing a class action suite why don't you get your accounts department to raise an invoice to google for all the "free traffic" they have sent you over the last 7 years, I am sure they will pay you with pleasure.
Just redirect those other domains to the main one, make sure that no cloaking or other fishy stuff is going on and beg google to put you back on. They owe you or me nothing.
Can I sue you for not linking to my website from yours?
