Re: Google ate my cached pages!



__/ [ rob_peddieson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ] on Thursday 01 June 2006 23:23 \__

Here is the dumb question of the day. Can anyone help?

I set up a site last November, its been running ok for a while,
gradually moving up Google for organic searches, (I won't post the URL
as I don't want to skew any figures)


My question is hypothetical, and as such I don't expect a definitive
answer - but....


When the site had been running for a while (.ASP) it got a GPR of 2 or
3 on home page, all pages were eventually cached (even product pages),
also putting in different search phrases for products and terms gave a
good set of matching results.


Then about three weeks ago, all the cached pages 'disappeared' except
the Home page, none of the search terms that had previously worked
brought back any results.



The only way to find it is to key in the URL, which if you are looking
for them and don't know them is a tad difficult. I swear I have done
nothing underhand, no mirror sites no spamming no link farms, the .com
name is forwarded to the.co.uk site .


The pain is, that if I am doing something wrong I don't know what it
is, and I can't find out. Does anyone know where I can find any
guidelines? I know Google don't answer specific queries on sites (there

would be zillions) But I would like to know what I've done wrong
-hypothetically!!

To elaborate on Borek's response (namely "you are one of the crowd. You are
probably OK, just Google is screwed up atm."), either there are duplicate
filters which affect sites rather selectively, or there is some major error
which Google will not admit they are experiencing (or embellish these at the
least).

Judging by one particular organic site, which still has 2 million pages in
Google cache, there appears to be something odd going on. it's almost
sporadic, as it stands. In several original sites, many pages have been
dropped.

Many of the pages that were dropped from my main site are original blog posts
and some deeper, truly original pages without off-site duplicates.

This assumption seems reasonable unless someone scraped my pages without my
awareness, which is unlikely as my name appears in most pages. There are
'ego feeds', based on search services, which I syndicate. When someone
plagiarises content, this immediately comes up with a red flag. Similar
scenario to the above in a very recent post:

http://www.alexking.org/blog/2006/05/29/theives/

He must be a sufferer of cache depletion as well, but figures suggest
otherwise.

Best wishes,

Roy

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