A few pages deindexed from Google .. PLEASE HELP!

[WayneRooney]

My client has a fairly new site and we were agressively building content to the website. It is an ecommerce store and we have got a blog as well. We guest blogged in a few places and wrote 3-5 articles a day.

Last few days, i noticed 3-4 pages that we were building links to got deindexed. What could be the reason? We weren't using any bots to build links, only a couple of it around 5-10 links to a page.

Google WMT is not showing any messages and no manual action is seen. What could be the reason? I've submitted those URL for reindex and so far nothing seems to work. Any idea?

Please help.

[Ray-pp]

Is there a noindex meta tag on the page?

Without seeing the URL, it is really hard to guess why the page would be deindexed.

[WayneRooney]

Hi, No the page is fine.. it's index and follow.

Bing indexed 2 of those pages but ditched one of it i think. What's your email i can send over the link

[Ray-pp]

I can be PM'ed through Moz and can also be reached through the website in my Moz profile.

[WayneRooney]

Pmed.

Anyone has any ideas? What could be the reasons?

[Ray-pp]

Those pages you PM'ed me are being 301'ed to the home page - that would deindex them from Google.

[WayneRooney]

Please add https://www.  in front.

[Ray-pp]

True, the pages can be reached directly when you add the https://www to the URL.

However,

• http://domain.com
• http://www.domain.com
• domain.com

The above should all be redirecting to the https://www version of the page. Because the above are redirecting back to your home page, that could be the issue causing the deindexing of the page. If you're not seeing anything in your Google Webmaster Tools account, then I would start with this issue.

Here is a good resource on http to https and preserving rankings - http://moz.com/blog/seo-tips-https-ssl

[Cyrus-Shepard]

Hi Edmond,

Like Ray pointed out, there could be multiple reasons. If you'd like another set of eyes, feel free to PM me as well.