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[Opie]

I have tried to do a ton of research, but one of our sites has disappeared completly from Google. All of our pages are gone from the index, but it still maintains a PR of 4. I have read alot about the so called sandbox effect, this company has a unique name and dosent appear for it.

I have also tried the -dfsdgsdsd -sdfgsdgsdfg -sdfgsdgsdg -sdfgsdfgsdfg -dsfgsdgsdg -sdfgsdfgsdfg -sdgsdfgdsfg with no luck.

Any suggestions? The domain was live with a simple site in November, but the updated site launched in late Feb or early march.

Thanks,

Opie

[truetrev]

Did you recently try any Spammy stuff?

[Opie]

No.. Not at all. It has about 40-50 pages indexed in other engines. I am not an seo company, but we followed all the listed best practices - unique title, meta, alt tags, copy, etc..

The site does not have many inbound links.

We submited the front page to google when we launched the landing page in November, and again in March when we launched the redesign. We had great rankings on a bunch of keywords for in the Apri & May timeframe. Them Boom! gone completely from the index.

We did use an automated rank checker twice in that timeframe.

Opie

[ghergich]

YOu dont ever need to submit to google or any serch engine because they will spider you...thats what they do. Did you change the name of your pages in the redesign or did all of them stay the same?

[Opie]

The first site was just a home page and 404. Again, the entire updated site was crawled and appeared within the google search results. It also had #1 rankings for a handful of both branded and industry related keywords.

Opie

[Googlewhacked]

Opie,

How many outbound links to do have on your site? After the last G update I have heard about a number of sites w/o any OBLs having similar problems.

An easy way to check this is to download a copy of Xenu Link Sleuth (http://home.snafu.de...n/xenulink.html) & run it on your site. It will give you a comprehensive list of the links on your site's pages, as well as a bunch of other useful information.

Phil

[Scottie]

Work on getting more inbound links. Have you submitted to the directories? DMOZ, GoGuides, Gimpsy, JoeAnt, Skaffe, WOW, and any industry related directories?

[Jill]

I prefer Google's swings and slides to their sandbox. But that's just me.

[MCP]

I prefer Google's swings and slides to their sandbox. But that's just me.

I only like running up the slides. I hate sliding back down.

[Randy]

I only like running up the slides. I hate sliding back down.

Just make sure you're not running up while I'm sliding down trying to work up enough speed to fly over the sandbox.

[Opie]

You guys are killing me with the jokes.. Thanks for the hookup on the Xenu tool.. Quite a nifty little app. I think its the inbound and outbound links thing... Pretty messed up though that Google would completely drop a site from its index though.

Opie