Trying to figure out why one of my popular pages was de-indexed from Google.
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I wanted to share this with everyone for two reasons. 1. To try to figure out why this happened, and 2 Let everyone be aware of this so you can check some of your pages if needed.
Someone on Facebook asked me a question that I knew I had answered in this post. I couldn't remember what the url was, so I googled some of the terms I knew was in the page, and the page didn't show up. I did some more searches and found out that the entire page was missing from Google.
This page has a good number of shares, comments, Facebook likes, etc (ie: social signals) and there is certainly no black / gray hat techniques being used on my site. This page received a decent amount of organic traffic as well.
I'm not sure when the page was de-indexed, and wouldn't have even known if I had't tried to search for it via google; which makes me concerned that perhaps other pages are being de-indexed. It also concerns me that I have done something wrong (without knowing) and perhaps other pages on my site are going to be penalized as well.
Does anyone have any idea why this page would be de-indexed? It sure seems like all the signals are there to show Google this page is unique and valuable. Interested to hear some of your thoughts on this.
Thanks
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I did the fetch as google and everything looks normal. I also do not have any erros that have anything to do with this page.
It's very strange. It seems to have happen all of a sudden.
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Go to do your Webmaster Tools and do a "Fetch as Google" on the page. Also check for any errors while you're there.
Is it possible that you had a noindex tag on the page at least temporarily in the past?
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Thanks for your message. I've already checked that, and the site was in face de indexed.
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Hello
I've had a few pages fall off the radar, however these pages weren't de-indexed, they just didn't show up for the keywords they used to. Try site:www.yourdomain.com/page/ to see if the page has actually been de-indexed.
The only conclusion I could come to with regards why my pages that fell off a cliff was the ratio of natural to commercial anchor text. I had more than 50% of anchor texts to those pages from exact keyword anchor texts.
Inner pages need brand and natural anchor text profiles also, not just the home page (so yourdomain.com/page, www.yourdomain.com/page, http://www.yourdomain.com/page).
Hope this helps.
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