Site vanished from Google

[Kedazle]

Hi all, I've lurked here on & off for years. This is my first post. I need some help.

My main site has a been consistently PR6 for some time. It was getting about 12,000 google hits per day in November and early December. On December 17, it suddenly dropped to less than 1000 google hits per day. It has stayed there ever since. (The site is Daze Reader, at www.dazereader.com. It's a sex blog with adult content and advertising. Not a pornsite but NSFW either.)

I've read through many threads here about similar problems. One possible cause is hijacking by other sites. I checked inurl:dazereader.com and found many suspicious listings that incorporate my URL and which redirect to my site. I confess I don't understand how this technique works, or how I can defend against it.

Another possible factor: In early December I got hit by a blog-comment spammer. I use a blog-management system called Movable Type. In the past I allowed readers to add comments, but I had turned off that feature six months ago. There were no comment forms on my HTML pages. But the spammer used a well-known MT feature which allows him to send new comments directly to the mt-comment.cgi file. Nearly 2000 spam comments in a week. These comments didn't appear on my regular pages, but they did generate new pages with URLs ending in /mt/mt-comment.cgi&comment=000426, and those URLs started showing up in search engines.

The MT forums had much advice for preventing future comment spam, but little advice on deleting the existing 2000 spam comments. I decided to follow one blunt suggestion: delete the mt-comment.cgi file altogether. That meant links to "mt-comment.cgi&comment=000426" and such pages would get 404 errors. My 404 traffic redirects to the front page of my site.

I don't know if the comment spam flood and my removing the mt-comment.cgi file has any connection to my google problem. But I removed the mt-comment.cgi file right around mid-December, near the day my google traffic collapsed. I replaced the mt-comment.cgi file in January just in case, but it had no effect.

Any advice or insight would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Not really a solution to your problem, just an observation I found to be curious.

I notice that I get completely different results depending on wether I type:

inurl:dazereader.com

or

link:dazereader.com


With the former I get about half a dozen results.

But with the later search, I get over 10 pages of results???

I'll understand women before I understand Google!!!

[Marcia]

The site is out of Google without a trace, though 602 links are showing up

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&l...om&btnG=Search