Last week a page on our site had #1 position for a certain search
term. The page's content was slightly modified last week, and now it's
disappeared completely from the search results.
And I mean completely disappeared. It's also missing from the
site:eastmidlandstrains.co.uk search results.
Can someone help me understand why is the page no longer listed? Is
this a problem with Google, a problem with the page, and/or has it
been blacklisted? How can I get it back?
> Last week a page on our site had #1 position for a certain search
> term. The page's content was slightly modified last week, and now it's
> disappeared completely from the search results.
> And I mean completely disappeared. It's also missing from the
> site:eastmidlandstrains.co.uk search results.
> Can someone help me understand why is the page no longer listed? Is
> this a problem with Google, a problem with the page, and/or has it
> been blacklisted? How can I get it back?
So, can you help me understand why it's not showing for the search
term Nottingham Train when it was ranked at #1 last week? That would
be really helpful.
> > Last week a page on our site had #1 position for a certain search
> > term. The page's content was slightly modified last week, and now it's
> > disappeared completely from the search results.
> > And I mean completely disappeared. It's also missing from the
> > site:eastmidlandstrains.co.uk search results.
> > Can someone help me understand why is the page no longer listed? Is
> > this a problem with Google, a problem with the page, and/or has it
> > been blacklisted? How can I get it back?
> So, can you help me understand why it's not showing for the search
> term Nottingham Train when it was ranked at #1 last week? That would
> be really helpful.
> > > Last week a page on our site had #1 position for a certain search
> > > term. The page's content was slightly modified last week, and now it's
> > > disappeared completely from the search results.
> > > And I mean completely disappeared. It's also missing from the
> > > site:eastmidlandstrains.co.uk search results.
> > > Can someone help me understand why is the page no longer listed? Is
> > > this a problem with Google, a problem with the page, and/or has it
> > > been blacklisted? How can I get it back?
lambrewkin wrote:
> Nice trick - love the sarcasm too ;-)
> So, can you help me understand why it's not showing for the search
> term Nottingham Train when it was ranked at #1 last week? That would
> be really helpful.
You think it needs advertising when the 16:45 from Kettering (already
delayed 20 minutes at Bedford) was standing room only through to
Sheffield on Sunday - despite being two 5-coach trains running
together?
> Get rid of the other copies and your preferred URL will probably come
> back.
> On Nov 4, 11:31 am, lambrewkin wrote:
> > Nice trick - love the sarcasm too ;-)
> > So, can you help me understand why it's not showing for the search
> > term Nottingham Train when it was ranked at #1 last week? That would
> > be really helpful.
> > > > Stop me if you've heard this one before...
> > > > Last week a page on our site had #1 position for a certain search
> > > > term. The page's content was slightly modified last week, and now it's
> > > > disappeared completely from the search results.
> > > > And I mean completely disappeared. It's also missing from the
> > > > site:eastmidlandstrains.co.uk search results.
> > > > Can someone help me understand why is the page no longer listed? Is
> > > > this a problem with Google, a problem with the page, and/or has it
> > > > been blacklisted? How can I get it back?
> lambrewkin wrote:
> > Nice trick - love the sarcasm too ;-)
> > So, can you help me understand why it's not showing for the search
> > term Nottingham Train when it was ranked at #1 last week? That would
> > be really helpful.
> You think it needs advertising when the 16:45 from Kettering (already
> delayed 20 minutes at Bedford) was standing room only through to
> Sheffield on Sunday - despite being two 5-coach trains running
> together?
lambrewkin wrote:
> Sorry, but I don't work for EMT directly.
Heh. No, I realise that. And it won't be me that complains that
loudly - perhaps the family of six that couldn't get off in Kettering
and got taken to Market Harborough against their will.
As regards the page, it fails validation. For one thing, it uses <h4>
tags in an SEO way, embedding them in <a> tags. <h4> is not intended
to give keywords extra emphasis - it's for structuring documents.
2. Your "file not found" page does not return result code 404. This
means that we are going to index it (and have indexed it).
Additionally, when a page is not found, your server uses a 302
redirect to the error page (that doesn't return an error code). This
could (and generally will) result in search engines becoming confused.
Did the URL move? Should we be indexing the contents of that error
page?
I believe the second item here happened with your site (you should be
able to verify that in your server logs). Assume that your server
redirected Googlebot to an error page, this would generally result in
us removing the original URL (because of the redirect) and attempting
to index the error page (which we might already know under a different
URL).
Assuming this happened, the best thing to do would be to have the
error page return the proper HTTP result code. This way, when we come
around to indexing your URL again, we'll be able to recognize that
this is not the URL that we are looking for :). As a bonus, using the
proper result code would allow you to see these errors in your
Webmaster Tools account (make sure the verify both the www and non-www
versions, as your site does not redirect from one to the other).
Additionally, you might want to consider using a XML Sitemap file to
help us to recognize the preferred version of your URLs.
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