Comments on: Why has my domain gone from page 3 on google to 'off the map'?

By: Timothy A

Timothy A — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:19:38 +0000

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…

By: qwerty

qwerty — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:19:38 +0000

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.

By: Aaron F

Aaron F — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:19:38 +0000

go to your computer properties, and change the URL back to google. I had a site like that called toggle.

By: Jack T

Jack T — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:19:38 +0000

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.