Help! Have I been penalized?

[dyjewels]

I wold appreciate any help here.

My site is basically no where to be seen. The only page in the SERPS is the main index page which has a DMOZ listing, but it shows NO CACHE. All other pages are completely gone, no where to be seen.

All the back links only show incoming external links, no internal links of any kind!

Have I been penalized?? Please someone help me!

[crash]

Well, you still have PR and I am finding you for various (tho specifically targeted) searches.

It's update time, don't sweat the weird stuff just yet.

[dyjewels]

Thanks, I am panicing a lot, I think I will hire an SEO tommorow! :)

[maccas]

Check your server logs and see which pages googlebot crawled during July... maybe your server went down while it was crawling

[dyjewels]

Server logs show is was crawled during that time. I don't know what else it could be.

[Chris_R]

Stop changing your title.

You are #17 for the only real kyword in the title when google crawled you.

For some reason google doesn't have your cache. I would jjust wait and see what happens. Your site looks nice by the way.

[TWhalen]

When I went to your site, I got a pop-up window.

After I closed it (which was immediately!), my browser did some java-induced "meta-refresh" or something.

I'm no javascript expert, but could what it was that I just experienced be causing Google to penalize you in some form?
It seems to me that it behaved just like a meta-refresh, which I know Google does not like at all. I realize that the script is cookie-based (as it didnt pop-up the second time I viewed your site), but since Google won't accept your cookies, it might just be "refreshing" the spider each time it hits your site.

Try removing that pop-up script and see if that helps.
(if for nothing else, but to reduce the annoyance factor on your visitors! -hehe!)

[ikbenhet1]

it don't matter how many popups you place in javascript,

cauz, a few months ago i had 3 popups per html and i showed up in the first result page with compettive keywords.

[TWhalen]

My point is the "meta-refresh" that is happening UNDERNEATH the pop-up.

Kill your cookies and visit the site again, and you'll see what I mean.
I think that is part of dyjewel's site's problem right there.

[dyjewels]

Thanks everyone. Maybe it is that refresh thing. About 2-3 weeks ago, I changed the site from being squashed on the left hand side to centered on the page. But the js pull down menu needs absolute start coordinates. So everytime you resize the window, it calculates where the js pull down menu should start and then places it in the right spot, otherwise it is distorted.

If you guys think that stupid thing is the problem it's going to be outta there in a day or two while I make a new js pull down menu!

Thanks again.

[dyjewels]

Just wanted everyone to know I never did end up getting penalized. I kept my PR5.

After dumping that meta-refresh thing to center my page and the other popup page, my site has now been begun getting deeper spidering again with fresh tags of Sep 2 and 3.

So thanks for all your help, I would not have figured out what caused all my pages to drop out of the index. Hopefully Google will keep spidering the whole thing in time for the next update and maybe I'll even get a PR6 :)

Thanks again!