My home page disappeared from Google

[ferashh]

Can anyone explain why my home page http://www.prostatecancerfoundation.org does not show up at all when you search for "prostate cancer". Two days ago we were in the fourth position and we have been moving from there to the ninth position for almost six months now. Please help!

[PhilC]

Something significant happened last night (Wednesday). I don't know what it was, but I saw significant changes across all 64 datacenters that I watch. For instance, one searchterm that I watch dropped 20 places across what I call group "A" of the datacenters (dropped from the 20s to the 40s), and 30+ across group "B" (from the 30s to the 60s).

It wasn't an update in the normal sense, because those take time. Whatever happened last night was sudden, and it was across all datacenters.

[mebo]

You can find the "Prostate Cancer" keyword phrase four times in the title, seven times in the body text, seven times in the meta description tag and 20 times in the meta keywords tag. That's too much. If you place your keyword phrase one time in the title and 2 times in the body text should be enough.

[glengara]

I'm getting the "Sorry, no information is available for the URL www.prostatecancerfoundation.org" message when I enter the Url in G....

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I got this url when I clicked on your domain:

h**p://www.prostatecancerfoundation.org/site/pp.asp?c=itIWK2OSG&b=46403

has it always been like this?

[lots0]

Holey crap batman!

I had two servers get overwhelmed last night, so many hits comming from google it looked like a DOS attack.

I don't know what happened yet, looks like I am going to have a busy day...

[Naiden]

some things:

- a couple of times some webs disappeared from google. 1st time was on decmber last year. these webs were nothing important. the last was an Internet directory, a had on february this directory, with 10 indexed pages aprox., that directory was very new and not two linked (that explains a so few pages) but disappeared from google for 2 weeks. at the end of this two weeks google reindexed the directory's home, but a month later nothing more.

- Google is putting up the level to index? before I made a web and without a link estrategy a get my pages speedy indexed. This month and the last I'm doing more webs in different domains, and googlebot visits they, but only he does is to index the home and refresh every day the caché. If I don't work hard on link development google just only index my home. Google index homes, but its indexing dies there.

- about changes, nothing more to say that with a page well optmized (but very new) is playing very hard Google, three days ago ranks 14th, next day 260th, yesterday 100th and today 60th, this at google.es, but in google.com this changes are similar, only that the moving is only 50 positions.

Now I tell you my google "dancing" there's someone who can tell me why I rank so well at google.com and so bad at google.es? told me some people its about the language they link you, but I doubt that. They only say me: "just search on google.com and google.es the word google and you will see in google.com they are first and on google.es google.es is 1st and google.com is down"

[Marcia]

I think glengara's definitely on to something. Checking the server header with Rex Swain's HTTP Viewer (http://www.rexswain.com/httpview.html)

Parameters:
URL = http://www.prostatecancerfoundation.org/
UAG = Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)
AEN =
FMT = AUTO
REQ = GET
Sending request:
GET / HTTP/1.0
Host: www.prostatecancerfoundation.org
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)

• Finding host IP address...
• Finding TCP protocol...
• Binding to local socket...
• Connecting to host...
• Sending request...
• Receiving response...

Total bytes received = 482
Elapsed time so far: 0 seconds
Header (Length = 482):
HTTP/1.1·301·Moved·Permanently(CR)
(LF)
Connection:·close(CR)
(LF)
Date:·Sat,·19·Mar·2005·17:15:52·GMT(CR)
(LF)
Server:·Microsoft-IIS/6.0(CR)
(LF)
P3P:·CP="CAO·DSP·COR·CURa·DEVa·TAIa·PSAa·PSDa·IVAi·IVDi·CON i·TELi·OUR·IND·PHY·ONL·UNI·PUR·COM·NAV·INT·DEM·CNT ·STA·POL"(CR)
(LF)
X-Powered-By:·ASP.NET(CR)
(LF)
Location:·http://www.prostatecancerfoundation.org/site/lookup.asp?c=itIWK2OSG&b=46403(CR)
(LF)
Content-Length:·0(CR)
(LF)
Content-Type:·text/html(CR)
(LF)
Set-Cookie:·ASPSESSIONIDCSTSSTTB=CMFIPHCCBNLDDJBAKADLJ IFP;·path=/
Redirected to an interior page - with a Session ID. The site has not been banned or removed from the index, but from your timeframe and changes Phil saw within that same timeframe, it looks like something definitely did happen. See what they've got?

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLD,GGLD:2005-11,GGLD:en&q=site%3Aprostatecancerfoundation%2Eorg

With a 301 - if it's been permanently moved, that URL won't be kept and there's obviously a problem with the page it's being redirected to. There's a technical fix that's needed, and the sooner the better.

[PhilC]

Well found Marcia!

The thing that I'm now wondering is, why did ferashh start this thread if he knew that he'd he'd 301'd the page? Surely, nobody would ask the question. So I wonder if it's something that the host did unilaterally. Or I suppose that a site owner could do it without realising quite what effect it will have.

The session ID is in the cookie, btw, and it won't affect anything.

[glengara]

You sure about the ID/cookie thing Phil?

I declined their cookies, but still got that url...

[PhilC]

I was referring to the response header that Marcia posted. The cookie stores the session ID. Maybe I misunderstood what Marcia meant - my mistake. Spiders don't accept cookies so they will be served a session ID in the URL like you were. I was one step behind you lot :(

[glengara]

I think I was confused, I assumed it was the cookie that set the session ID.

However, would they use the same session ID for all non cookie enabled browsers?