my site seriously dropped in google

[derwent]

Over the last few weeks I have seen my site drop in google from p1 to p100+ for many keywords, however some keywords have stayed at p1.

Have google changed their algorithms lately or is it something I may have done?? The only changes to the site involve recent news articles, job adverts etc but the pages that have significantly dropped are for other sections of the site such as market rent housing?!?!

ta

 

[Foamcow]

Without seeing the actual site it's hard to say.

Google (and other engines) are clearing out sites using improper techniques to gain rank.

http://www.foamcow.com

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[derwent]

the site is

http://www.derwentliving.com

it is using a bloody awful BT server at the moment as we are building our own web server to be hosted here but even with the bad urls it managed to gain high rankings for all of the sections!

 

[ChrisHirst]

quite simple, you are frame forwarding from http: //home.btconnect.com/derwenthousing1/ (broken to stop linking) to derwentliving.co.uk and the crawlers cannot see past the frame.

It's always a problem with moving off free or ISP hosting as they all use frame forwarding. The best way is always to bite the bullet and buy proper hosting for any kind of commercial enterprise site.





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[derwent]

I managed to gain high rankings despite this frameset however for the last 6 months up until now.

 

[ChrisHirst]

and it could be being hit as duplicate content. Some things take time for the SEs to work out, and pages that disappear behind frames or get excluded by robots.txt etc do take time to be removed from the index so 6 months sounds about right.

the actual site is on BT servers but the frame is housed on easyspace. two different IPs same site. to the SEs it can look like mirrors therefore can get filtered.
There is also redirection as well from Easyspace. This is going to cause the same problems as hundreds (if not thousands) of sites had with GoDaddy and their forwarding service a few months ago when they all started loosing traffic and rankings and had all their pages removed from Google.
Your site does only have one page left as a PIP and two entries that 404 out Site: search and if you look at the cache you can see why.

get the site properly hosted as soon as possible. It may well take 3 - 6 months to recover depending how good your backlinks are.



Chris.

Indifference will be the downfall of mankind, but who cares?

http://www.candsdesign.co.uk

A website that proves the cobblers kids adage.

http://www.cram-system.com

Nightclub counting systems

So long, and thanks for all the fish.

 

[derwent]

Never thought it may be viewed as duplicate content.

The new server should be up and running in a few weeks, what is the best thing to do, just get it all running from

http://www.derwentliving.com/...

and get google to index it all again from scratch? Because the existing hosting is BT, I can`t use any sort of 404 redirection (

 

[ChrisHirst]

So long have you have links to the domain Google will start to crawl again. Obviously the sooner the better otherwise it will take a lot longer to recover.
The problem has been compounded by having the .com as well. The redirection from easyspace is probably the root cause.

When you get back up use the .co.uk as the primary and point the DNS for the .com to it, because UK searches will be more important than global ones I would assume.


Chris.

Indifference will be the downfall of mankind, but who cares?

http://www.candsdesign.co.uk

A website that proves the cobblers kids adage.

http://www.cram-system.com

Nightclub counting systems

So long, and thanks for all the fish.