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    • besartbajrami
      besartbajrami last edited by

      Hello,

      Some pages of my clients website are removed from Google Index.

      We were in top 10 position for some keywords but now I cannot find those pages neither in top 1000.

      Any idea what to do in order to get these pages back?

      thank you

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      • DanDeceuster
        DanDeceuster last edited by

        There's not enough information here to help you. How long did they rank? How old is the site? When were the pages removed from the rankings? Are they still indexed? Did this happen at the time of the recent algorithm change? Answer some of these questions and we can more easily answer yours.

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        • besartbajrami
          besartbajrami @DanDeceuster last edited by

          Hi Dan,

          Thank you for your quick reply.

          For 3 months they were in 4th and 8th position. then from 1-2nd february they're gone.

          the website is older than 3 years.  and yes the pages are indexed by google.

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          • elephantseo
            elephantseo last edited by

            You should also check Google Webmaster Tools for messages from Big G. They provide good insight on crawl issues quite a bit of the time too.

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            • Dan-Petrovic
              Dan-Petrovic last edited by

              It's hard to say without looking at the site however it's likely it's tripped the new quality filter. Try improving content on a single page and see if it makes difference. If yes, then apply to others.

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              • randfish
                randfish @besartbajrami last edited by

                If that's the timeframe, it's most likely not the recent Farmer Update. I'd guess it's most likely to be a penalty of some kind (manipulative linking practices, cloaking, thin/duplicate/scraped content are the most likely culprits). You might check out these posts for more detail:

                http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-to-handle-a-google-penalty-and-an-example-from-the-field-of-real-estate

                http://www.seomoz.org/blog/pagelevel-algorithmic-penalties-on-the-rise-from-google

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