Google Dropped Website

TinnaDog · 07-06-2004, 03:28 AM

Once again. I have been dropped from google and left somewhere on page 10. I went from a #1 position for key words to zip. I really do not understand what causes this. I continually strive to optimize site, I use adwords I even added additional website redirects for potential web address misspellings. Then boom nothing. Is this a periodic thing that happens.

crazyhorse · 07-06-2004, 03:40 AM

Also called 'everflux' .If your site is new, or hasn't shown up in google for long, it may because our "fresh crawl" (which runs each day) was finding your site instead of our main crawl (which runs about once a month). Our "fresh crawl" is a newer feature, and we're still experimenting with which pages to crawl, how deeply to crawl, etc. We even reserve the right to (gasp!) not do a fresh crawl on some days because we're doing tests or reviewing new code. Someone wrote in recently and said "my site got in google three weeks ago, and you've dropped me four times!"

Nope, it's just that we don't always crawl the same pages in our fresh crawl, and we don't always crawl to the same depth. As we do a full crawl of the web, we find most of the sites from our fresh crawl and put them in our regular index. My advice on our fresh crawl is to view it as a nice "bonus" on top of google's deep index. Users can always search our full index, but sometimes we can serve up even fresher pages as an extra nicety.

What does this mean for the average webmaster? In the word of the great Hitchhiker's Guide, "Don't Panic." Just do the normal things you should do:

1. Create a great site.
2. Submit your site to google on our "add url" form.
3. Get a link from the Open Directory Project or other directories (Yahoo, etc.).
4. Don't panic if your site takes a little while to show up in google. Be patient, and start to look around the web--there's lots of great advice about improving your site for users and search engines.

thks GG

Geert C. · 07-06-2004, 04:01 AM

Tinadogg this happened a few times to me to. I think it is because i crosslink almost all of my websites which are hosted on the same server (same ip).

It happened to me twice but it is not constant.

realestate · 07-06-2004, 04:14 AM

redirect doesn't help.

awall19 · 07-06-2004, 04:33 AM

the answer is almost always

"don't keep doing more to your site, try to get more links into your site using your keywords as the anchor text."

TinnaDog · 07-06-2004, 10:19 AM

This site is aprox 6 months old and aprox 2.5 months in current form. I have recently added several domain names in the last month that redirect to the main page and to cover for user misspelling of web address. I am curious if this could cause a problem. I am also curious if having your main page in php causes any issues with google.

awall19 · 07-06-2004, 05:21 PM

redirecting new domain names to a current site does not hurt you.

php is fine. all text which is read is read as html. so long as some of your inner pages are indexed they all eventually likely will be if you build up enough link popularity

TinnaDog · 07-12-2004, 10:25 AM

Ok its been a week now and my site is no where to be seen. Is there anything one can do to cause Google To completely drop a site off the map.

When searching by company name I was a #1 position. Now everything under the sun comes up but our site.

Whats even odder is that we pay for adsence and use our company name as a key word.

Totally confused

toddieg · 07-12-2004, 11:11 AM

what is the URL?