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askeli · 25-02-06

Since today one of my sites seems to of been removed from G, a site: search finds nothing and my PR has dropped from between 3 - 5 to zero on all pages, not a grey bar just a zero.

If i use the "cached snapshot of page" on the right click the page is cached 17feb but nothing in G?

Any ideas what would cause this, ive made no changes and the site is 18 months old.

Thanks

Pete Taylor · 25-02-06

A few sites have done this today, look again in a couple of days and things should be back to normal.

askeli · 25-02-06

Hope so, thanks

askeli · 03-03-06

Nothing reappeared so i contacted G, looks like a penalty.

since i have not made any changes or do anything dodgy ill have to just move things around and try again

Barry · 03-03-06

I lost 9 sites last month - most of them have a last cache date around the same time as yours. All the sites I lost could be deemed to be 'thin' affiliate sites. Just making use out of datafeeds and no/not much unique content. 2 of them were my main bread winning sites that are totally unique. I am majorly disappointed at them dissappearing from the index.

I have submitted a reinclution request as well. I think that my major sites may have gone because of the overuse of 'backfill' from search results tripping over the duplicate content filter. I have removed these offending results and am hoping that they will reindex the site soon.

I hope your reinclution request goes well - let us know, as will I

smn2 · 06-03-06

Hi

Do you have a copy of the reinclusion request?

Steve

Elaine · 06-03-06

Matt Cutts explains it all here:

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/reincl...request-howto/

hope it helps

I filed one back in January - 10 days later the site came back with a bang
......but then - 3 weeks later got an email from GG stating 'nothing wrong with the site and websites can be listed blah de blah de blah. '

so don't know what helped in the end - just grateful.

smn2 · 06-03-06

Hi,

Thanks. I did actually file one of these a while back
but nothing seems to have happened

so was
wondering if I'd done the right thing.

My site hasn't gone, just doesn't seem to be
able to appear in the first 30 results now, for
some strange reason (and, yes, it does a
have a god-defined right to do so

Lol)

Thanks again
Steve

askeli · 07-03-06

Got an email back from G about buying links could cause a penalty, strange as ive never done that and dont even have any links page etc.

Just a tidy up and re inclusion request will be sent.

Lucky really most traffic comes from else where

KirstyM · 07-03-06

The same thng happened to a site or two of mine around the same time, and to some owned by people I know.

Interestingly there was no change to any of my Google rankings, so I just dismissed it as a Google funny that might be related to upcoming changes.

jamesgevans · 09-03-06

Hi,

It is a random sequence of events to try to confuse our SEO efforts, it happens all the time, it is a random formula to create this kind of confusion, but the patterns are the same...don't worry everything is going to be ok.

James

PS: As long as someone didn't apply blackhat techniques to punish you like a 302 redirect !!!:

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/seo-ad...302-redirects/