Site dropped suddenly. Is it due to htaccess?

[BlueprintMarketing]

will you share the URL of us?

[BlueprintMarketing]

I'm going to tell you something that work for friend that is a real oddball. Cloudflare.com the company that supposedly offers you a free CDN that I would not really count as a true CDN but will keep your site safer and possibly speed up depending on the configuration. Does submit your site to Google and did help a friend of mine. This is a last ditch effort however I know it did work so I don't think couldn't in the future and if you're not using a good anycast DNS system is really no harm in using it.

Thanks for the PM will check ASAP

[semoney]

I PMED you the link. Didnt want to put it publicly as this is for a client

[semoney]

Cloudfare doesnt seem to serve my purpose. It seems to be able to detect hackers and spammers but my concern is on telling Google to index my site and put me back where I am originally was.

I have checked that on this site, there is no malware and no no-follows. The strangest thing is why did it suddenly go back to where it was and one hour later, it dropped?

[semoney]

On Google Webmaster Tools, the last updates was 6th April. Today is 9th April. Why did it stopped updating? Is there something wrong?

[BlueprintMarketing]

I have some good news and some bad news. The good news is you show up fine in Yahoo and Bing unfortunately you have to click one more button to show perfectly in Google. However I'm using the tool that I strongly strongly suggest that you use

Screaming frog spider SEO

http://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider/user-guide/

100% free for windows, Mac and Linux up to 500 pages per domain it tells you everything listed in the URL above. And will actually check your index status if you right-click on the a link that you want checked.

I believe that it is a matter of time however I would adjust your robot text to suit the information found at yoast.com below and in addition to that I would add your site map

so your robot text looks like this.

I would change my robot text to

User-Agent: *
Disallow:

Sitemap: http://www.example.com/sitemap.xml

In addition I have to go to work honestly or I am dead however I believe the frog spider will help you very much and if you add the site map to the robot text that never will hurt.

I will private message you regarding one other issue I don't know if you want talk about here.

your robot text is giving me some issues. But it may not be this.

http://tools.seobook.com/robots-txt/analyzer/

Your current robot text is this below I hope this is okay to share I don't think it'll violate any trust or anything like this it's not showing the site

User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-includes/

try out this tool as well

http://phpweby.com/services/robots

I would change my robot text to

User-Agent: *
Disallow:

Sitemap: http://www.example.com/sitemap.xml

having the site map in helps a lot and if you have a /

Google tends to block more things. That are not listed below such as the site map

I also believe what this has to say is correct

http://yoast.com/example-robots-txt-wordpress/

also see

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13527529/robots-txt-is-blocking-wordpress-site-from-google?rq=1

[BlueprintMarketing]

PS This

http://www.seomoz.org/q/google-webmaster-says-0-pages-indexed

[semoney]

Hi

Thank you!

I have changed robots.txt as suggested and as mentioned, I have no choice but to wait

Im really praying that this goes back up

[semoney]

Its strange! How can my website dropped suddenly in ONE hour?

1. Site was de-indexed due to .htaccess . It was resolved

2. Site was back up on the first page within two days

3. Site was de-indexed within an hour.

What happened? How did it get de-indexed so quickly? I don't think Google's penalty even worked so fast? What is happening man?

[Cyrus-Shepard]

Hi Eada,

There's 2 things you want to do here to "help" Google re-crawl your site.

1. Submit a new sitemap via Google Webmaster Tools. Make sure the sitemap is up to date. If your sitemap hasn't changed, resubmit it.

2. Do a "Fetch as Googlebot" - also in Webmaster Tools. Fetch your homepage. Then chose the option that says "Submit to index and all linked pages"

An engineer at Google suggested #2 to me after my own site was hacked and I cleaned it up. It's a signal to Google to take another look at those pages.

[Cyrus-Shepard]

Hi Eada,

Sorry to hear you're having trouble. I won't go over the same ground that the others have already covered here, but let me offer these suggestions.

Google often serves results from different data centers, and those data centers refresh at different times. Also, rankings can fluctuate greatly even throughout a single day. For this reason it's not unusual to occasionally see huge swings in rankings from hour to hour as the SERPs adjust. But let's try to get to the heart of the problem.

1. If you're site was hacked, this could be a strong signal to Google to not show you in search results.

Check in Google Webmaster Tools under "Health > Malware" to see if they have detected Malware on your site.

(I stated the next 2 earlier, but here they are again)

2. Submit a new sitemap via Google Webmaster Tools. Make sure the sitemap is up to date. If your sitemap hasn't changed, resubmit it.

3. Do a "Fetch as Googlebot" - also in Webmaster Tools. Fetch your homepage. Then chose the option that says "Submit to index and all linked pages"

If Google has trouble fetching your homepage or any other page, it could indicate other problems you need to address.

4. Finally, we need to consider the possibility that this has nothing to do with hacking or .htaccess files, but instead there is the possibility that you have indeed been penalized and Google has dropped your rankings.

Have you done any questionable link building? Recieved any messages of unnatural links? If so, this may be another area you want to explore.

Hope this helps! Best of luck with your SEO.

[semoney]

Hi

1. There is no malware on my site. I have triple checked on Succuri and in GWT

2. Sitemap was re-submitted yesterday. No point in re-doing it. I even changed my robots.txt as per comments above.

3. I re-did a Fetch as Googlebot . No issues here

4. If i have been penalized, I wont even be able to see my site when i googled my site name. Additionally, i did not receive any messages from Google. Whatever SEO methods I did for this site, i used on my other sites and the other sites are all sitting on the first page. Only this site! Damn, why am i so unlucky?

[semoney]

Is it possible to call Google?!?!

[Cyrus-Shepard]

There are many types and degrees of penalization. Very very few penalties result in total de-indexation.

Most of the time, if you are penalized, your rankings will simply drop for most keywords, but Google will often keep most of your pages in it's index.

Additionally, Google will only send messages about unnatural links via webmaster tools if it's a manual penalty. Algorithmic penalties, like Panda and Penguin, usually are not accompanied by manual notices.

Here's a really good article from Ryan Kent about the topic:

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/identifying-link-penalties-in-2012

There's one final possibility: Nothing is wrong with your site, but for some reason Google is devaluing your backlinks. This sometimes happens when your site is fine, but the sites linking to you get hit with a penalty. Happens more and more these days.

[semoney]

How can i verify if it's penalized or a Google dance? Because its too coincidental that the entire site got de-indexed after the site got hacked. What can i do now? I still believe that it is still getting indexed by Google but GWT told me that Google have already indexed it. Maybe its because i just refused to believe the hard truth. What can i do now?

[semoney]

Any help will be good?