If you are a website owner and keep tracking the traffic inflow, then you may experience at some time that google has dropped your website in its search results. If you are facing this problem currently, then we can understand the kind of time you are going through. But don’t worry there is a way out. And most importantly, Sit back and relax and wait for day or two.
Here are few steps to help you find the reason for this situation:
Search google for ” site:www.yourwebsite.com ”
@ If Google doesn’t show any pages from your site then it’s likely that your entire site has been banned. The reason for this could be use of Black Hat SEO techniques, Spamming, etc. If this has happened, then you may request google to re include your website after you have edited the website, removed keyword stuffing, invisible text and other blackhat seo techniques.
@ If Google shows pages from your website, then the problem is not that grave. Reason for such kind of situation could be:-
1. Your website has been placed in Sandbox. This happens particularly with new websites and it may take 3 to 9 month for website to come out of the sandbox. SOme webmaster however feel that this time period can be reduced by building quality in links to your website.
2. If you are not using a good quality hosting service then you will face this situation more than ofen. What happens is that if your website is down when google bots come for crawling, then google will drop the ranking of your website in search results.
3. The last reason could be that your website is facing competition from other websites who are targeting same keywords.
Hopefully I’ve given you some ideas about how to track down the source of your site’s disappearance from Google.
