Disappeared from Google

what changed to drop me off the list?

[jschmeez32]

Recently I optimized a site which listed large directory of companies. The results were fantastic, almost too good. I found 5 of my pages in the top 10 for words I was going after.

I used no spam techniques, just used keywords in the title, meta, and header tags. I assumed my terrific ranking were a direct result of my link popularity and absorbent amount of content.

Yesterday, my site wasn't even in the top 30 for any of the words I was previously ranked well for!

Anyone have an idea on what happened?

[jdMorgan]

jschmeez32,

Welcome to WebmasterWorld [webmasterworld.com]!

How long has your site been online (exactly)?

Do you have incoming links to your pages from other sites?

Jim

[Jakpot]

Much the same happened to my web pages. The Googlers are probably tweaking away at who knows what

[Stefan]

It might be that you're showing up in freshbot results and don't have them indexed yet. Be patient and you might see them all back after the next dance. It might take two depending on which deep crawl you got.

[AAnnAArchy]

I had a new site show up as #1 several days ago and yesterday it dropped out. So maybe it's just a bit of everflux.

[jdMorgan]

Why I asked...

Here's another thread describing this situation [webmasterworld.com].

If your sites weren't online before the last deep-crawl, you'll have to depend on the freshbot to keep your listings in the index, and it is hit-or-miss. Fresh content, added every couple of days, is probably the most effective freshbot bait you can use until you get fully-indexed by the deep crawl. The next deep crawl will be in about three weeks (assuming the schedule doesn't change). Pages deep-crawled at that time will show up in the index "permanently" at the end of February. Until then, your pages may pop in and out unless you can keep the freshbot coming back every three days or more frequently. Use the time to create more content, submit your site the the ODP, and get more incoming links with on-topic link text from high-Pagerank sites which share your site's theme. Good luck, all!

HTH,
Jim

[Brian]

I've been having a weird situation in recent months which may be related and, despite my pleas, nobody has so far unraveled.

On my special keywords I rank #1 and #2. At least, after the dance.

Then comes freshbot and my #1 (which is my homepage) disappears. It is substituted by the next ranking page, which last month was my own number 2, but this month is somebody else's page.

Then - and this is NOT at my end - if I push the Google search bar a second time, my pages reassert #1 and #2. In short, my homepage reappears. This happens intermittently across www www2 and www3, on different browsers and systems, and Yahoogle.

It's as if (a) Google assigns less "power"(at least intermittenty) to a freshtagged page than it does to monthly-crawled pages; and (b)you can interrogate Google twice.

[jschmeez32]

Thanks Jim!

My site has been on line for a several months, but was only "optimized" and submitted about 2 months ago.

The site has relevant incoming links, including one from a site with a page rank of 7.

Thanks for the tips - I am working on creating more link popularity at this very moment.