| Site Gone?!? | madfish1 | 2/12/13 5:15 AM | Seems very odd that http://irishcottagesnationwide.com is completely gone from search. Been there for years and now nothing. Was there yesterday?!?!? I've read the FAQs and searched the help center. My URL is: http://www.irishcottagesnationwide.com Thanks. |
| Re: Site Gone?!? | GoldieBolx | 2/12/13 5:52 AM | for what keywords ? The site is not gone ... it's still indexed .. Mind you your 'irish cottages' keyword phrase is overly optimised in my opinion .. |
| Re: Site Gone?!? | madfish1 | 2/12/13 5:55 AM | trying to do searches for basic e.g. irish cottages nationwide and it is not showing? |
| Re: Site Gone?!? | MoldySock | 2/12/13 5:55 AM | Hello, We desperately need more information before drawing any conclusions. Can you tell us when you experienced the drop?Have you got any notifications in WMT? For what it's worth, your site IS currently indexed, (you can check by searching site:htt |
| Re: Site Gone?!? | madfish1 | 2/12/13 6:04 AM | Drop just today. No messages in WMT. Using some keywords it seems to have removed itself from all search e.g. 'derry cottages' which should bring back http://irishcottagesnationwide.com/derry. For the the term 'irish cottages' in http://google.ie it was on 2nd pag |
| Re: Site Gone?!? | clayts | 2/12/13 6:08 AM | When did you start redirecting the mini sites and were those sites under any penalty? |
| Re: Site Gone?!? | madfish1 | 2/12/13 6:10 AM | sorry make that 301 redirects |
| Re: Site Gone?!? | madfish1 | 2/12/13 6:14 AM | actually the redirect for http://irishcottagesgalway.com went on yesterday to http://irishcottagesnationwide.com/galway, http://irishcottagesgalway.com not set up in WMT but possible it might have a message like http://irishcottageskerry.com (which is in WMT) which read "Over t |
| Re: Site Gone?!? | GoldieBolx | 2/12/13 8:15 AM | sorry madfish . .but all these minisites are a nightmare these days when your trying to link them up to the main website .. either direct them somewhere else or nofollow any links that are in any way connected to your main site ..I have said this man |
| Re: Site Gone?!? | MoldySock | 2/12/13 9:47 AM | Goldiebox, There should be no problem with 301-redirecting existing sites to another site if the pages that are being redirected are showing the same content. The problem comes when you are 301-redirecting domains that are not relevant at your site. |
| Re: Site Gone?!? | madfish1 | 2/12/13 10:26 AM | that is what we are trying to do move sites to the one mothership ... are you saying we are being penalised because we are trying to to adhere to better practices? what is the best strategy going forward? redirect these other site to the main one or |
| Re: Site Gone?!? | madfish1 | 2/13/13 7:43 AM | thanks for your replies, guys ... we didnt think it would be so complicated putting everything together as seems to be the trend these days. Will have to go more cautiously. |