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Members of the Standing Start Profits forums will know that this blog myseriously vanished from the Google rankings about three weeks ago. I get most of my traffic from viral ebooks and reports, as I discuss in Auction Secret Profits, so it wasn’t a big blow to my business, but it was still a touch frustrating.
The content on this blog is all 100% original, and is of a high quality (even if I say so myself!), and as far as I was aware I hadn’t broken any Google rules.
One day my site was there, and then the next it was gone, and I have no idea why!
The good news is that 24 hours ago my site reappeared, as if by magic, and the flow of traffic from the search engines resumed. Curiously, my rankings for many keywords has actually increased, so maybe this is Google’s way of saying sorry for the mixup?!
If so, someone please ring up the Googleplex and tell them that I won’t let my grudge die until their apology extends to position #1 for the term “make money online”, and that’s final…
In summary, I have no idea why I was banned from the Google index, and I have no idea why I was allowed back. It was all a bit odd, and I guess I’ll just chalk it down to experience.
Has anyone experienced anything similar? Have you ever noticed strange things related to your Google rankings? If so then I can’t wait to hear about it in the comments below…
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Glad you got one over on the beast Lee!
Maybe Google was just ‘updating’ you and it caused this to happen.
Anyone here work for Google and can maybe find out? I’d be interested to know more too…
I also couldn’t help notice that the comments section looks different. A new feature you’ve added?
Thanks
Mark
Hey Lee,
It’s happened to me before in totally different niche market.
I’m not sure why, but my honest opinion is that Google likes making webmasters sweat for a little bit!
What search term did Google take away from you? Or was it your entire blog was listed when you searched for the blog on Google?
All the best,
Brian Jinks
I have experienced this myself, twice.
(Well, twice as I noticed it two times, since I did a search for those two terms)
First time it happened was when I searched for the term “hellgate london vs guild wars”
Originally, my site would always come out no. 1
But shockingly, for a short period, that particular url of mine disappeared from the index.
My main site is still in the index though.
A few days later, it was reinstated, before it was reinstated, I posted some questions up in the Google forums, the replies were not exactly
useful though.
Yeah, I was furious when it happened.
However, I was also very happy when my index got reinstated.
Okay, the second time, happened more recently.
The Google search term “Entrecarder” would again yield my site as no.1 on the search index.
Again, it too disappeared from the index at one time. Since I experienced it before with my “hellgate london vs guild wars” article, I choose to be optimistic about this matter, knowing that it would be reinstated eventually.
And to my joy, it was back, my site is listed as no.1 for the Google search term “Entrecarder” once more!
Oh! What a glorious day it is!
Whoops, I think I have wrote too much.
Ought to stop now.
Cheers, mate.
Have a great day, yo!
The really strange thing is I didn’t completely vanish. All my pages were banished from the index except about 5, and those pages lost their rank in a dramatic style.
For example, I was even on page 4 for the term “Lee McIntye”!
Hi Brian – I agree that they like to make us sweat. I have an image of a mad controller sad stroking his cat in the Googleplex, flicking switches while laughing to himself!
Hi Deimos
It feels good when they put it back doesn’t it?!
I have a classroom management site with some nice ranking, and then one day that went too, before coming back 3 days later.
Happy is not the word as I got all my traffic for that site from Google.
Just looking at your site and you are the Entrecard king!
Lee McIntyre
@Lee McIntyre:
It feels good when they put it back doesn’t it?!
HELL YEAH!
Just looking at your site and you are the Entrecard king!
Haha? What King?
I am still a newbie at all these.
Cheers, mate.
I doubt very much it was a ban. Google is contantly changing the filters, so pages go in and out as they adjust. I’ve seen it happen so many times I’ve lost count.
Just one of those things.
Usually if your banned it will only show your index page, least thats the case with Yahoo.
Ron Killian
Hi Ron
I agree that it was unlikely to be a ban, just one of those things like you say. We’re back now though and that’s the main thing.
Thanks for the comment
Lee McIntyre