Yesterday my site ranked at #3 for a pretty good keyword, today it is not in the top 500. I checked for the pages this morning site:www.xyx.com and all my pages were still listed.
Now when I check the site again, none of my pages are listed, but all the old ones are, that had bee ndelisted yesterday, this was a expired domain.
So I lost about 90% of my traffic on this site today. Is anything up with google or is this normal or what ?
xyx.com is not the domain.

How old is the new domain?

Did you do a 301 redirect of the old site to the new site page by page?

How long was the new site rated?

What did you do with the old site and the pages? Are the pages still reachable but just not linked to the new index page?

Not enough detail to make a call.

How old is the new domain?

Did you do a 301 redirect of the old site to the new site page by page?

How long was the new site rated?

What did you do with the old site and the pages? Are the pages still reachable but just not linked to the new index page?

Not enough detail to make a call.

The domain is over 2 years old

No 301 redirects

Rated ?? PR is 4

I did nothing with the old sites pages, I let them expire.

I noticed that on hte last page of the google page listing, there is a little blurb
" We have omitted some of the pages that are very similiar to the ones listed to see those pages click here"

Do you think it is a duplicate content penalty ??

The domain is over 2 years old

No 301 redirects

Rated ?? PR is 4

I did nothing with the old sites pages, I let them expire.

I noticed that on hte last page of the google page listing, there is a little blurb
" We have omitted some of the pages that are very similiar to the ones listed to see those pages click here"

Do you think it is a duplicate content penalty ??

Ouch the throwing away of pages.... PR is a terrible thing to waste.

But wait the pages are still there you just let them expire.... so there has to be some links to them out in cyberspace that you can 301 to your new pages.

The see similiar is just the deduping of a lot of pages listed for similiar terms nothing more so don't worry.

Did you recently have a huge influx of text links? a large spike can get things flagged....

Are you duplicating content from suppliers or vendors etc?

Do you use dynamic naming of pages? How are your title tags?

PM me a link to your site and I will have a look at it.

I also noticed some movement yesterday in PR and rankings across 5-6 sites I'm currently working on. One PR up from 4 to 7 overnight! Anyone else? Is it all going to come crashing back down??? :confused:

My company owns several schools across the country and some have the same name. We have individual urls for each school, but they are registered to the same person through the administrator for .edu names.

About 2 years ago, it seemed that one of our school's sites was being penalized for being a duplicate (it isn't a duplicate site, but we use the same template and basic text for all of our schools). We optimized the site and changed the text,which fixed the problem. Both schools with the same name were ranked one above the other for at least a year.

I just checked our rankings and now the opposite school has been dropped from #1 in Google to 52. We still have a PR of 5 for both sites. Is that site now being penalized? We have other schools with the same name and same template site, but this hasn't happened. Any suggestions for improvement?

The two sites are:
www.ibcfortwayne.edu (this was the url that originally we had trouble getting ranked)
www.ibcindianapolis.edu (this is the url that has now dropped in rankings)

Thanks for your help!