Is Google dancing again?

Vlad's picture

Did any one noticed change in Google's results? I have one site that has been getting alot of traffic from natural search on Google but two days ago the traffic stoped. It turns out that most of my pages disappeared from the index. Did any one experienced the same? Thanks.

Is Google dancing again?

Jeremy Palmer's picture

I'm not sure if they've announced a formal dance yet... I haven't seen rumblings about an update yet. How old is your site? New sites tend to fluctuate more in the SERPs than older sites.

Is Google dancing again?

Vlad's picture

Jeremy Palmer wrote:
I'm not sure if they've announced a formal dance yet... I haven't seen rumblings about an update yet. How old is your site? New sites tend to fluctuate more in the SERPs than older sites.

This site is about 9 months old, but recently got major makeover, maybe that is why it disappeared as quickly as it got idexed.

I also think it may have to do with duplicate content of the site (WordPress) as well after reading one of your posts.

Is Google dancing again?

Vlad's picture

Just a quick update. The website that I mentioned above has begun to reappear in the Google's index again today. Since the "makeover" took place recently, I am wondering if it has something to do with Google data enters? I am not sure I understand how they imploy their datacenters. Can it be that in order to redestribute equally the indexing process the generall traffic to Google is routed to a particular data center on different days? I would appreciate if some one can explain this to me. Thanks.

Is Google dancing again?

Jeremy Palmer's picture

Some discussions on your problem:

Disappearing and Reappearing rankings - Everflux or something else?
http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum30/34795.htm

Pages dropped? Let's Work the Problem
Who is winning now in Google and why?
http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum30/34076.htm

Is Google dancing again?

Vlad's picture

Thanks Jeremy, good topics.

Good to know that I am not the only one. Also along the way I noticed that it happend only to this one site that hase no pagerank as of yet. The sites that ave at least google rank of 1 were not affected. So my conlsion is that if you have some high quality backlinks your site will not likely to go though this "appearing<=>disappearing" dance.

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