Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Being de-indexed by Google - how would it affect you?

I have been away from my blog for a little while as I needed to spend some time trying to figure out how to reverse a disturbing trend with Google and my main site at http://www.wm8c.com/ . My site was de-indexed about a month ago and I have yet to solve the why but it has forced me to rethink my traffic strategies.

About two thirds of my traffic was coming from Google and even though I still have a strong presence in Yahoo and MSN, you can do the math if I tell you that I'm now at 400 uniques a day now. This has been devastating to my residual income streams to say the least.

I am now experimenting with a number of techniques using more web 2.0 strategies and time will tell how they are going to work, but I was able to get a couple of new sites indexed in less than a week using these methods. They are http://lowerurtaxes.com/ and http://careersforliving.com/ . Still no change on my main site as of this writing though and it's been all but banned by Google at the moment. I say that only because the site still has a page rank and if it was banned, I would think that also would be gone.

I will post more here as soon as I can come up with details and also if I manage to get my main site back into the Google index in some shape or form. I'd love to hear from some people on what there experiences have been with this issue and if anyone has had success in getting re-indexed, I love to hear how!

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