Disaster Day
Friday, September 12th, 2008 at
7:22 pm
Well folks its looking like the end of the road for BANS for me. Today the big G has deindexed virtually every one of my sites. I can only hope this is a temporary blip but I am not optimistic given what has happened to others. I’ll take stock over the weekend and make a final decision on Monday but right now things look pretty gloomy.
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Was you tied up in the problems router problems and EPN yesterday? If so it could just be a tempory drop from the index. If that is the case then your sites will be back soon. Generally if that happens your sites will be back within a week. As an example, I had a client at the beginning of the year who didn’t renew his domain. His B&B site dropped out of the index, he renewed, I did some social bookmarking and it was back in the index within a week and back to it’s number 3 position in google.
Good luck,
Duane.
That didn’t make sense did it! It’s late.
Hey, sorry to hear that. One of my PHPBay sites got deindexed… while i was still building it!
I’m working on getting it back into google..
I read in another entry that you perhaps didn’t have content? on your BANS sites? Is this true?
@Duane
Thanks for the comment. I must say I feel like I’ve been mugged at the moment. I’m not sure when the stores disappeared from the index as I hadn’t checked for a couple of weeks. However I suspect it only happened yesterday as I haven’t seen any changes to traffic yet.
Best I could tell I had no HostGator related problems with the stores but I couldn’t access EPN which I just assumed was down whilst they upgraded the service.
All is not lost yet as just monitoring things for the last couple of hours a couple of stores have come back and then gone again which I wouldn’t expect to occur if I had suffered manual deletion.
Fingers crossed.
@ Anthony
Thanks. Yes, I had 7 of the 9 stores I built over the last month deindexed. The two that weren’t were wordpress fronted which says it all really.
I’ll do a full post mortem blog entry in a week or so if they don’t come back.
Do the de-indexed sites have adsense or google analytics on them?
Mike –
Sorry to hear of the headaches right now for sure, I have been there and know exactly what you are feeling for sure!!
Have you done a full datacenter chack to be sure it is not just one or two of G datacenters going through an update of sorts? I worked on a site for someone this week that have every appearance of being deindexed… and it turned out it was just on one datacenter.
I sent you a link via email to check different things…
Also – ALL is not lost!! I know its hard to be optimiztic right now, but I have successfully had one or two of my own sites brought back to the index after converting them to blog sites, with bans on the backend.
ANYTHING I can do to help you… just shoot me an email, glad to help.
Mark
Hey Mark, let us know if / when they come back. I’ve written to google asking them to resubmit my deindexed site. Lets see how that goes…
I think that you were off a couple of days. I had all 57 of my BANS sites deindexed on September 8th. Since I have my sites on a color coded excel, I have finally concluded that the tag at the bottom of “powered by Build a Niche Store” might have been the culprit.
They included .info, .com, and .biz. Most were thin with not much changed (other than attractiveness) on the first page although there were lots of other resources farther in.
Some had only eBay, some had Adsense, some also included Amazon. They were on three different Hostgator accounts. The only common thread was that they were blatantly BANS. All of my non-BANS sites are still indexed just fine, in spite of the fact that they have little content either.
Note:
http://www.Affenpinscher.biz (deindexed)
http://www.Affenpinscher.info (still indexed)
I also am licking my wounds and taking stock. Is it worth trying to get them reindexed? It would be a massive job. I have 100+ other domain names of the same breeds, so will probably test by transferring finished BANS store without the links back to BANS and see how long it lasts
My heart goes out to all of us,
Francie
Hi,
Sorry to hear of your problems.
I was wondering if your sites came back into the Google index?
Did you have Adwords on the ones that were de-indexed?
Randy
Definitely sorry to hear that Francie….
After I had a drop from the index, I literally spent DAYS trying to find a common issue on all that would trigger the almighty G to get a group all at once.
The real common thing I found was that all sites were using adsense and all were listed in my Google Webmaster Tools account.
I had always changed up or not used the “Powered By” and “See more items” links since early on and quit making those changes when I didnt see a difference between staying in the index or being dropped.
Like I said above… I was able to get one of more robust sites back into the index after a serious overhaul and several reinclusion requests, but a second site I have been trying to get back is still in limbo after 6 months.
The rest of them that were dropped? I just let them expire and moved onto something else.
Mark
@Duane
No the sites did not have google analytics on them. A couple had adsense but I rarely use it.
@Mark
Thanks for the encouraging remarks. I’ll drop you a line in a day or two.
@ Francie
I have not been able to find any pattern to the deindexing. I’ve also had more stores disappear whilst I’ve been away so it appears to be an ongoing operation.
Like you said the only common thread is that they are BANS. What really hurt was that 5 of them were only two weeks old and still being worked on!
Like yourself all my other sites remain indexed including my test sites!
Having had a break I am still optimistic though as indicated in todays post Disaster Day Part 2.
@Mark
Like you all my sites were listed over a couple of accounts in webmaster tools. I think in future I will avoid using this service although I am testing to see if this makes a difference.