Any idea why Google would have removed this site from its index?

A few weeks ago I noticed that link:www.majstro.com entered in Google's
search engine did not return a single link anymore, though there are
hundreds of sites with links to this page. And other search engines do
still list them.

This week I became evenmore puzzled when every reference to my site had
complete disappeared from Google's index. According to
"info:www.majstro.com" Google has no information anymore about this
site. And when I enter a search query that used to produce a list of
references with the index page of my site somewhere on the first or
second page of search results, I now only see references to sites with
links to my site, but not www.majstro.com itself.

Something very strange has happened here! Fortunately only about 1% of
visitors used to come to my site through Google. Still, I would very
much like to know why a content rich site with several PR 5-pages that
has existed for more than three years, would suddenly completly
disappear from the index for no obvious reason.

I would almost say that I am being penalized for something by Google,
except that I cannot imagine what that would be. The site does not use
cloaking, hidden text, irrelevant keywords or whatever webmasters may
use to mislead search engines, and this has been so since the very
beginning. Maybe the authorities of the People's Republic of China have
asked Google to block my site for some ideological reason?

But seriously folks, what could have happened here? I have of course
asked Google, but I do not really expect an answer from them.

Gerard wrote:

A few weeks ago I noticed that link:www.majstro.com entered in Google's
search engine did not return a single link anymore, though there are
hundreds of sites with links to this page. And other search engines do
still list them.

This week I became evenmore puzzled when every reference to my site had
complete disappeared from Google's index. According to
"info:www.majstro.com" Google has no information anymore about this
site. And when I enter a search query that used to produce a list of
references with the index page of my site somewhere on the first or
second page of search results, I now only see references to sites with
links to my site, but not www.majstro.com itself.

Something very strange has happened here! Fortunately only about 1% of
visitors used to come to my site through Google. Still, I would very
much like to know why a content rich site with several PR 5-pages that
has existed for more than three years, would suddenly completly
disappear from the index for no obvious reason.

I would almost say that I am being penalized for something by Google,
except that I cannot imagine what that would be. The site does not use
cloaking, hidden text, irrelevant keywords or whatever webmasters may
use to mislead search engines, and this has been so since the very
beginning. Maybe the authorities of the People's Republic of China have
asked Google to block my site for some ideological reason?

But seriously folks, what could have happened here? I have of course
asked Google, but I do not really expect an answer from them.

I see that whilst google doesn't contain any info on the site they DO
still know of its existence.
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en...G=Search&meta=

I also note that every listing it does have is in the supplemental
results index. This isn't a good sign. It seems to usually mean that
google thinks your pages are duplicates of other pages or that the
content is not enough to warrant a real position in its index.

This doesn't give any reason for google to totally drop the site though.

Without looking deeper, which I don't have time for, I personally
haven't got any ideas. Sorry.

Jez.

On Mon, 06 Mar 2006 15:33:21 +0100, Jez <j.ez (AT) virgin (DOT) net> wrote:

Without looking deeper, which I don't have time for, I personally
haven't got any ideas. Sorry.

www and non-www issue? Both give same content.

Best,
Borek
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Borek wrote:

On Mon, 06 Mar 2006 15:33:21 +0100, Jez <j.ez (AT) virgin (DOT) net> wrote:

Without looking deeper, which I don't have time for, I personally
haven't got any ideas. Sorry.


www and non-www issue? Both give same content.

Best,
Borek

Hi Borek,

Could be, didn't think of that. I was thinking more along the lines of
google not liking thin content being duplicated across different
languages creating, in essence, duplicated content but in another
language (but this is an area I know nothing of :-) )

Jez.

On 6 Mar 2006 05:56:10 -0800, "Gerard" <info (AT) majstro (DOT) com> wrote:

A few weeks ago I noticed that link:www.majstro.com entered in Google's
search engine did not return a single link anymore, though there are
hundreds of sites with links to this page. And other search engines do
still list them.

This week I became evenmore puzzled when every reference to my site had
complete disappeared from Google's index. According to
"info:www.majstro.com" Google has no information anymore about this
site. And when I enter a search query that used to produce a list of
references with the index page of my site somewhere on the first or
second page of search results, I now only see references to sites with
links to my site, but not www.majstro.com itself.

Something very strange has happened here! Fortunately only about 1% of
visitors used to come to my site through Google. Still, I would very
much like to know why a content rich site with several PR 5-pages that
has existed for more than three years, would suddenly completly
disappear from the index for no obvious reason.

I would almost say that I am being penalized for something by Google,
except that I cannot imagine what that would be. The site does not use
cloaking, hidden text, irrelevant keywords or whatever webmasters may
use to mislead search engines, and this has been so since the very
beginning. Maybe the authorities of the People's Republic of China have
asked Google to block my site for some ideological reason?

But seriously folks, what could have happened here? I have of course
asked Google, but I do not really expect an answer from them.

Have you looked to see if it's in the Wayback Machine?

BB
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kruse (AT) crystal-liaison (DOT) com Gifty! Shiny! BB!

Gerard wrote:

A few weeks ago I noticed that link:www.majstro.com entered in Google's
search engine did not return a single link anymore, though there are
hundreds of sites with links to this page. And other search engines do
still list them.
This week I became evenmore puzzled when every reference to my site had
complete disappeared from Google's index. According to
"info:www.majstro.com" Google has no information anymore about this
site. And when I enter a search query that used to produce a list of
references with the index page of my site somewhere on the first or
second page of search results, I now only see references to sites with
links to my site, but not www.majstro.com itself.
But seriously folks, what could have happened here? I have of course
asked Google, but I do not really expect an answer from them.

Hello Gerard,

For the last couple of weeks, I've noticed some major variations in
Google's index and link: results. However, it does look like your site
isn't showing up at all. I would give it a little more time, just to be
sure, but it looks like there must be something wrong. Did your page
have any PageRank before that dropped away?

Chris S.

Free Web Design Tools
http://www.impliedbydesign.com/free-...e-scripts.html

Yes, the index page had PR 6 and there were several pages with PR 5.

I too have noticed major variations, for instance one day Google says
it has about 15 pages indexed of another site of mine (all of them very
old versions), the next day the number is about 150 pages. I just
checked that one: the number is currently 16 pages. Apparently a case
of server synchronization, though this has already been going on for
several weeks. And dropping a site with PR 6 and PR 5 pages altogether
can of course not be attributed to normal fluctuations.

Could it be that Google is losing its edge?

I just looked out of curiosity. 123 results, the latest from March 22,
2005. But I do of course not need the Wayback Machine to look at my
site, because it is still on-line, even if Google does not know it
anymore.

On 6 Mar 2006 12:58:07 -0800, "Gerard" <info (AT) majstro (DOT) com> wrote:

Yes, the index page had PR 6 and there were several pages with PR 5.

I too have noticed major variations, for instance one day Google says
it has about 15 pages indexed of another site of mine (all of them very
old versions), the next day the number is about 150 pages. I just
checked that one: the number is currently 16 pages. Apparently a case
of server synchronization, though this has already been going on for
several weeks. And dropping a site with PR 6 and PR 5 pages altogether
can of course not be attributed to normal fluctuations.

Could it be that Google is losing its edge?

It never really had an edge, just a better reputation. It's upgrading
its hardware, that's why all the futzing. Been going on a while now,
longer than they thought it would, I think.

BB
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"Gerard" <info (AT) majstro (DOT) com> wrote

A few weeks ago I noticed that link:www.majstro.com entered in Google's
search engine did not return a single link anymore, though there are
hundreds of sites with links to this page. And other search engines do
still list them.

This week I became evenmore puzzled when every reference to my site had
complete disappeared from Google's index. According to
"info:www.majstro.com" Google has no information anymore about this
site. And when I enter a search query that used to produce a list of
references with the index page of my site somewhere on the first or
second page of search results, I now only see references to sites with
links to my site, but not www.majstro.com itself.

Something very strange has happened here! Fortunately only about 1% of
visitors used to come to my site through Google. Still, I would very
much like to know why a content rich site with several PR 5-pages that
has existed for more than three years, would suddenly completly
disappear from the index for no obvious reason.

I would almost say that I am being penalized for something by Google,
except that I cannot imagine what that would be. The site does not use
cloaking, hidden text, irrelevant keywords or whatever webmasters may
use to mislead search engines, and this has been so since the very
beginning. Maybe the authorities of the People's Republic of China have
asked Google to block my site for some ideological reason?

But seriously folks, what could have happened here? I have of course
asked Google, but I do not really expect an answer from them.

Google will probably suggest that you read the guidelines and implement
them.

Check every outgoing link from the site and delete all the ones which lead
to spam sites, zero PR sites or to redirected sites (which then point
straight back at you like Ergane). The link to the porn site should be
deleted to avoid your site being blocked by the PRC and educational
firewalls etc.

You could also remove all references to index.html and make all links back
to your home page read href="http://www.majesto.com/" so that you have an
unambigious single home page.

Best regards, Eric.