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AdamF24 · 04-08-2011, 04:07 AM

My website, which used to have many articles in the top search results is now completely buried on google's search results. What causes this? My website has stayed the same, and the 3+ year old articles definitely haven't changed.

Brutha · 04-08-2011, 02:01 PM

Did you do anything that could be interpreted to be a black hat technique?
Buying links?

Curtis2011 · 04-08-2011, 05:36 PM

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Originally Posted by AdamF24

My website, which used to have many articles in the top search results is now completely buried on google's search results. What causes this? My website has stayed the same, and the 3+ year old articles definitely haven't changed.

Well Google recently did a giant change in their algorithm apparently. If your content sucked then that's why it got buried. If it was great content, then you were one of the casualties of war on the content spammers.

AdamF24 · 04-08-2011, 07:54 PM

I wasn't doing anything to backlink or anything google frowns upon..

and one my articles was always the first search result, had backlinks from major yahoo articles and universities. What do you mean about casualty of war from content spammers?

Lucidism · 04-08-2011, 09:34 PM

Sometimes this happens randomly for a few days. It may come back.

rawxstasy · 04-09-2011, 06:11 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by AdamF24

I wasn't doing anything to backlink or anything google frowns upon..

and one my articles was always the first search result, had backlinks from major yahoo articles and universities. What do you mean about casualty of war from content spammers?

Google's algorithm change was to increase relevant search results and decrease duplicate and spam content. Some legitimate websites were helped by the change and other legitamate websites went down in search results. I think eventually your site will come back.

Spiderguy252 · 04-09-2011, 03:44 PM

Did you recently move from a shared domain to a custom one? That often causes this issue (though only with Google, not any other search engine).

elsasq · 04-10-2011, 06:17 AM

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Sometimes this happens randomly for a few days. It may come back.

I thought so.

M 2 of my sites are buried and it's been a week. I hope it won't last for long.

ragtag · 04-10-2011, 10:13 PM

You should check if your site has been hacked, just in case. Sometimes people hack sites, and use them to place spam pages on (basically keyword stuffing and linking). If Google finds this, they may downrank you severely, or simply remove your site from their searches all together. You could try searching for 'site:yourdomain.com' on google, which should display all results for your domain. You could also try to recursievely download all the content on your site (using wget or TeleportPro or other crawler like bot), and see if it all looks familiar.

AdamF24 · 04-11-2011, 01:55 AM

Whats interesting is I've noticed other highly ranked websites (that I competed with in certain search results) are also somewhat buried on the google search results too. This really is demoralizing.

AdamF24 · 04-13-2011, 01:19 AM

My traffic =(

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Brutha Family Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Berlin, Germany Posts: 8,749	Did you do anything that could be interpreted to be a black hat technique? Buying links?

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AdamF24 Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 124	I wasn't doing anything to backlink or anything google frowns upon.. and one my articles was always the first search result, had backlinks from major yahoo articles and universities. What do you mean about casualty of war from content spammers?

04-08-2011, 09:34 PM	#5 (permalink)
Lucidism Banned Join Date: Apr 2010 Posts: 668	Sometimes this happens randomly for a few days. It may come back.

04-09-2011, 03:44 PM	#7 (permalink)
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04-10-2011, 10:13 PM	#9 (permalink)
ragtag Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 326	You should check if your site has been hacked, just in case. Sometimes people hack sites, and use them to place spam pages on (basically keyword stuffing and linking). If Google finds this, they may downrank you severely, or simply remove your site from their searches all together. You could try searching for 'site:yourdomain.com' on google, which should display all results for your domain. You could also try to recursievely download all the content on your site (using wget or TeleportPro or other crawler like bot), and see if it all looks familiar.

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AdamF24 Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 124	Whats interesting is I've noticed other highly ranked websites (that I competed with in certain search results) are also somewhat buried on the google search results too. This really is demoralizing.

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AdamF24 Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 124	My traffic =(

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