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We are no longer indexed. We have had no server down time. I have reviewed my log files, I have reviewed my html, no changes have been made for a long time to the site.
If you were dropped is was likely one of two reasons.
1. The site was down when Google updated.
2. You have been black-listed for doing something Google didn’t like (i.e., hidden text).
As for getting back in. Well, that's a subject for the ages.
Generally the regular results in Google are not connected at all with the placement of adwords or sponsored listings.
Although some sites buy adwords plus try to achieve top rankings on the regular listings.
If for the first time adwords are appearing for your targeted keywords then I would tend to think, your industry/business has for some reason become interesting for some players in your field.
I would also suggest that those players might try to get on top of the regular serps, and have eventually hired search engine optimization experts.
If all of those sites, which used to occupy the top ten for your keywords have lost ranking, then it's very likely that the new top sites are applying better optimization techniques, or have better links, or perhaps even more and better content.
The best way to approach this problem would perhaps be to analyze why those sites are ranked better than yours.
Having analyzed them, you will know how to beat them and where to improve your own site.
This forum is probably the best place to learn how to go about it.
We were not down, we use a paging system to let us know when the site is down.
I have had the same code for one year. It was due to have a major change due to new software being launched. It was basically a sleeper until we were ready to launch so I know that it has not changed.
I have had an seo check it for everything. The only thing it does not have is link popularity. But that was the way has been for two years. I can understand a drop in ranking, but not completely dropped from index.
This is why I suspect that the adwords division decided that I needed to go completely to offer less competition for their ad words.
Google doesn't strong arm webmasters into using adwords by excluding them from the main database.
I would agree that some of your inbound links may have lost their PR and this has affected yours.
Shak
I have no idea about your particular case, but what you suspect has happened does actually happen. It's called monetization targeting.
So what is monetization targeting mean?
The server might still have glitched, or there was an Internet glitch. Or a Google bug. My site got dropped from Google for some odd reason, and came back the next. It wouldn't make sense for Google to be dropping sites that paid for adwords. If word got out about THAT, this would make businesses not want to get adwords. If anything, I'd think Google would make sure to do extra to give your site a "fair shake" and at least be in the index.
Where is this going and where will it end up?
