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Hi Fergie,
I have the same problem. Last weekend my site suddenly was gone.
Top 10 serp for my keywords and now it´s gone.
Still going at yahoo and msn.Is this normal and will google pick up my site again without me changing anything?
/Waz
I had this happen to one of my domains about 2 months ago and the site is still not back. So, not sure if your site will come back.
My problem is a little different than Waz’s, because I’m only missing one page in google.
But it seemed to happen at about the same time – last weekend. Must have been an update.
Edited to say: I just did some more thorough searches, and apparently the page isn’t entirely missing, it’s just been completely knocked out for the search phrases it was in the top 10 for. For instance, I type in the key phrase, and then do a “search within results” for the url, and it isn’t found at all.
So I guess my question is, how does a page that was in the top 10 not just lose it’s place, but completely disappear from the SERPS for that particuar key phrase.
Hi Janet
Was the page that is no longer ranking relatively new? It’s not unusual for Google to give a new page a boost in the rankings for a couple of weeks before dropping it back to where it will naturally sit.
Cheers
Tim
The most obvious explaination is that it hasn’t been spidered recently, which is easy to fix, just link to it from your most crawled page. Other reasosn can be duplicate versions of the page, either your own or people who have copied it. If you haven’t made a change to the page recently, do so, when it gets recrawled it gets algorithmically reevaluated like any other page, so you could get back.
The page is fairly old, and had been in the top 10 for a few months.
Classics, do you know what software will give me the details you mentioned – what pages are spidered. I only get the mb’s spidered and the pages spidered as a total, and not broken down.
I did a google search for some sentences off of the page, and the only site that came up was my own. Thankfully.
I’ll update and change the page a bit, too.
Thanks very much for your help
I get this loads. I have around 600 indexed pages now and some are always going missing then re-appearing at the next spider. No links change on the site..just happens with Google in my experience.
I include a unique “key” in the html to group my pages in batches (ie “xfg908d”, “dfg8889d” etc) that no-one else uses so i can group the pages and search for them regularly. I someimes find they are still there, just way down the lists, then they pop up again.
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&c2coff=1&q=site%3Acasinogeek.net
Notice you have many URL only listings because of the www versus non-www issue.
Google’s cache page shows the date it was last spidered:
http://216.239.57.104/search?q=cache:wLpdOShStxgJ:www.casinogeek.net/OnlineGamblingNews/lucky888slots.html+site:casinogeek.net&hl=en
November 18etc.
Hi,
Classics could you tell me so I get it right once and for all; is it smarter to have all the pages as http://www.mydomain.com or without them?
I hope you say without since I’ve just about completed moving them all to without the www.
but if its par for my course; you’re going to tell me its better with the www. so I will have to go back and change them all again lol.
THanks much for your reply in advance.
S.
I think I can answer this one, even though you asked Classics. Either one is okay, just so long as you’re consistent in your linking. If you don’t use the www. –then don’t ever use it in any of your links. And if you do use the www. — then use it in EVERY single one of your links.
Correct me if I’m wrong on this one.
I also lost a page about a week ago too. Don’t know why either as there was nothing new with the page. The cache for the page disappared also, while my home page has a current cache and most of the interiors have last cached dates of Nov. 10.
Wow – I didn’t know about the cache search on google. I see that the page in question hasn’t been spidered since the 9th of November, which is very close to when it disappeared from the serps.
I can also see, from my stats, that google’s spiders have slowed down somewhat on my site, and through the cache I can see just how bad it’s gotten. Egads 😮 .
Ok, so I’ve found a few good reasons why this has happened, and it’s a wonder I get any free traffic at all!
Here’s one thing that has made google unhappy with me – I didn’t hard-code the links on every page, yet I had moved many pages into topic-specific folders. I didn’t realize that the footer on each page had href=”./blah.html, rather than “http://www.casinogeek.net/blah.html”, If you see what I mean.
When I started this website, I was absolutely new to online publishing, html, SEO, and everything in between. And I was churning out the pages like crazy. As I went, I learned new things all the time, went back to correct, add, amend, etc., but missed pages here and there. Sloppy as hell. I’d advise anyone who is starting to get it right the first time!
I don’t know whether it’s best to hard-code internal links or not (put the entire url in the link). If you do, you can’t easily work offline, so I do all my changes online. Let me tell you, I’ve had some tense moments when I messed the script up!
Originally posted by Fergie
Let me tell you, I’ve had some tense moments when I messed the script up!I do most of my small updates on my live site as well. Boy, can I relate to having a few tense moments as a result! There’s nothing quite like clicking refresh on your site and getting a screen full of PHP errors where your content is supposed to be.
If all your links are consistently to www or to non-www, then it is the same, no advantage.
However, in my experience the big majority of people link with www, even in stuff like forums posts so I would never consider not using the www on one of my domains.
I would never consider not using the www on one of my domains.
and of course I went thru and did it the other way lol.
After thinking about it; you make perfect sense. Of course most other people if they are going to link to you: they would use the www.
why I didn’t think of that at first may be the same reason I never became president or won the pulitzer.
hmmmm….
ps.
thanks Classics for the personal reply. (pssst. you never know what that guy Randy is going to say. He’s from Texas you know).
** thought I better clear up for those not in the know. Randy is competent and I was just giving him a little poke in the ribs.
