Why has my domain gone from page 3 on google to 'off the map'?
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Goggle is fickle. New sites often receive initial high rankings, to only drop after a few weeks. This could be caused by a number of things: content is not unique and is copied from another site, the site has too many off-site links, the site does not add new material regularly, the site design is poor or keyword saturated…
Are you saying that your host ran thousands of automated queries? That can be enough to get you in some trouble, but I doubt it would be serious trouble if it only happened once or twice.
When you say you’ve been taken off the map, what exactly do you mean — you can no longer be found for your keywords, but what about your company name? What do you get when you search for site:yourdomain.com? That query will return all of the pages from your site that are in the index.
go to your computer properties, and change the URL back to google. I had a site like that called toggle.
You need to define to yourself what ‘taking my website off the search engine map’ means. I would create a google webmaster account to learn more about any problems with your site.
I doubt that the cause and effect are related. It’s not in Google’s nature to take a single specific action and have a direct and immediate penalty/banning. Certainly not within a very short timeframe, I would bet money on that. Can’t say more without knowing the site better.