Has google panelized us ? If so, why ? How do I know if our website is panelized ?

[seoidea]

We were ranked on first page among top 5 position a year ago for most of our pages. On one fine day, google decided to drop us from the results although google keeps indexing our pages. Google index our pages regularly but doesn't show them in its results. All google traffic we receive is for our own site name and its variations.

I wanted to know - how do we know if google has panelized us. Why has google panelized us ? If they have panelized us, what can we do to get out of it ?

Also I wanted to know if any tool will help me identify such thing. We have not done any link building. Our site page rank is 4 (it was 5 few months ago). All we did was on page optimization.

Thanks for your help!

[enzogg2]

Sounds like you did nothing wrong but change your website which can cause stuff like that to happen. Wait it out and you should be back.

[SteveOllington]

Can you tell us the domain?

[seoidea]

PMed you the domain

[seoidea]

We did change the website but that was around around 1.5 years ago - However, ranking it comes and goes back...so for a week or so we get ranking back - once in a while (happened twice or three times so far) but then they go back.

[SteveOllington]

Thanks. I think I can see where the main problems are... you have quite a few ads and loads, and loads of outgoing links with very little unique content. The majority of the content you have there is fed in through affiliate programs and so will exist in many other places too.

I would suggest that you separate a lot of what you have on the homepage into different categories and landing pages, at the same time as adding some static and unique content on each.

After doing that, fill out a re-inclusion request with Google.

Usually when people think they've been penalized it turns out they haven't and there's just some other issue but I think you most likely have been penalized in this case.

[john4math]

Also, if you haven't yet, you might also want to set up the Google Webmaster Tools.  Once you get re-included, if something like this happened again, you'd see your # of impressions drop drastically from within their search queries report.  If you set up the Bing webmaster tools as well, you could compare the two to see if Google is truly penalizing you.

[seoidea]

I PMed you details but our pages are indexed by google regularly (daily and weekly) so it is confusing.

[seoidea]

Thanks, We have webmasters account set up - we knew it from even analytics that search terms that we were ranking before - now we are not.