90% of my pages have been dropped by Google. Help!

[Sagita]

I don't know what cause it, but I found almost all of my pages have been dropped by Google. Some of them had been ranked quite well (top 10), but suddenly they all dissappear. Does anyone here has some good experiences on bringing back dropped pages? Is there something that I might have accidentally done? Please help!!


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Food, Nutrition and Health Article (http://www.vegetable-recipes-by-cooking-method.com/health-article.html)

[tsutton]

Possible things:

* You use some sort of traffic program to bring in more people by submitting url to search engines
* Cloned articles (that has been done loads of time by other people)
* Other issues

[rmeeuwsen]

Google once dropped all the links to my site at http://www.fastflowersdelivery.com/

I thought all was lost for that site. But I perservered, and ignored them. I added some new items for sale and went on my way.

Now they have 974 pages listed with a pr4. If I knew what it was all about I'd be making more $

[tlholley]

Last year, I had created 10 sites with Directory Generator and within a couple of weeks, I was earning over $1,000 a month in AdSense. Then, about three months later the pages started getting dropped. Overnight, I literally went from over $30-$50 a day to $3-$5... bummer.

I tried creating a few new sites and do the blog and ping thing again, but it just didn't work for me again. I went off in another direction to try and find another way of making money.

I recently came across a method that made a lot of sense to me (now I am hoping it will make dollars). I brainstormed and thought of a twist to it that would still let me make use of the Directory Generator. I am testing it out now and hope that it pays off.

With any luck, there won't be any more dropped pages...

[Chris]

From what I have been reading Google has started to look fairly negatively on directories, especially those that were just using the DMOZ listings. I personally have never run a directory site so I haven't seen the effects and I don't know if this information is sitll relevant, but that is what I have heard.

[tlholley]

I don't know if that is necessarily true. I don't see Google penalizing Yahoo or DMOZ or hundreds of other directory sites. I think it is more a matter of relevancy and quality.

If you can build a relevant and quality directory site, I'll bet Google will still like it.

[carminejg3]

i agree with chris.... g doesn't penalize y dmz or "G" it self which now has over 2-3 million pages thanks to its own copy of the dmoz but it does penalize other sites......

another example do as I say not as i do....