HELP! Site slowly disappearing from G's index...

ross · 03-05-2006, 04:14 PM

Hi all

Sorry for being so dramatic in my first post, but something very weird is happening.

Basically, Google has not been caching my site at all lately. It hasnt shown a new cache of my homepage for about 3 weeks and basically none of my internal pages are showing a cache at all!

Now, my site has gone from a site: search showing 500 odd pages to 150 odd pages and all of my inner pages are showing up as 'supplemental result'

Has anyone got ANY idea of what is going on and why!? I was only unsandboxed a month ago and this is kind of scary!

The site is www.energiseforlife. com

Any advice would be much appreciated

Cheers
Ross

**G10** · 03-05-2006, 04:29 PM

You still have your PR so it doesn't seem as they are penalising you.

I would say to give it another week or two and see if the page count keeps going down or begins to rise again as I can't see any reason why.

Ferre · 03-05-2006, 04:39 PM

I get a page not found.

ross · 03-05-2006, 04:48 PM

Sorry, I split up the link as I wasnt sure on link rules in the forum.

Add the .com on the end.

Cheers
Ross

Ferre · 03-05-2006, 05:12 PM

Thanks, I hadn't noticed that.

Dustin07 · 03-06-2006, 11:02 AM

I can't give you any definate advice, but when this has happened to me in the past I went out and found myself a couple more backlinks and before long I started coming back. has happened a few more times and I keep doing the same thing and it seems to work.

ross · 03-06-2006, 04:38 PM

Thanks Dustin

I will give that a try. It seems like quite a few people seem to be experiencing the same thing over at WMW too so hopefully it will all clear itself up.

What types of links did you go get? Were they what you would call high quality (one-way, relevant etc) or did you just add a few directories and recips?

Obviously given time the first option is better, but for the sake of doing things quickly, the latter might be an option!

Cheers
Ross

Dustin07 · 03-06-2006, 05:04 PM

well I have a couple websites so I don't always have to do recip. Sacrifice one site in the name of another, lol.

netsearch · 03-06-2006, 07:14 PM

could be difference between big daddy and non big daddy servers
search for sf giants if you get giants.mlb.com/ your getting results from big daddy if you get sfgaints.com you on a non big daddy server

I have noticed during the day I get non big baddy servers but after 5pm pst I get big daddy servers

ross · 03-06-2006, 10:20 PM

Yep - gettin giants.mlb.com/

Could well be it. I thought I had solved the solution by sorting out a bit of a problem that was sending the spiders on an endless css loop five links into my site (therefore it was never reaching any other pages to crawl) - and when I got back home it was all sorted.

Alas, I bet I am getting non Big Dad DCs on my home computer.

Im sure this will all iron itself out soon but it is something I've gotta keep a keen eye on.

Cheers for the help everyone.

Ross

websel · 03-07-2006, 07:18 AM

Hello everybody, I am new here.

Here are my recent adventures with Google.

I started a web site around november 2005, it is a music download web site with one page per artist/ band and multiple pages per genre. It started off with about one thousand artist and 80 genres, climbing to over 3,000 artists and 150 genres now.

I made sure all pages are linked to from at least one page on my web site, preferably two or more.

After Google hit me the first time it had 11.000 pages indexed from my web site. This was a bit odd since at the time I had only about 1.500 pages on my site. All these indexed pages didn't seem to bring me any significant traffic, Google was not even in the top 20 of referrers.

A few weeks ago the indexed page count at Google dropped from 11.000 to around 250 on some data centers. Now, page count is on the rise again and slowly going towards the 500, 600. With this lower number of indexed pages, Google suddenly (since two weeks) refers the biggest chunk of traffic to my site (35% comes from Google now)

A quick check NOW reveals that my page count is up to 14,200 again.... I don't really get it, there aren't that many page on my web site, actual pagecount would now be around 4,000 or something.

My guessed analysis of this behaviour is as follows:
MAYBE Google counts all links to a new page as a separate page initially, even if these links point to the same page. Now after a while Google will consolidate these "duplicate pages" into one page and assign proper pagerank / SERP placement.

What's your take on this? Has anybody experienced something similar?

Wessel