Site Suddenly Down

[tanveer1]

My all keywords are from first page are gone to nowhere to be found. The site domain is aa-rental.com. Help will be appreciated. It happened last weekend around 09/28/12. The site is still indexed. info:aa-rental.com deliver results. Here is what Noticed. In Google web master I had:

1 soft error

1 access denied error for robot.txt. (site was 100% not accessible by googlebot).

25 of 404 errors.

Optimization:

I was doing optimization but under careful watch making sure content was unique and follows google guidelines. I also gave my webdeveloper to make the structured data and more organized site. He is still working on the site but on a different server. He also asked for user ID and pass for my existing site which I gave him. Can he do something different (inadvertently) on the server where my site is located? What could it be?

Thanks for all help in advance.

[Vizergy]

Your domain settings need to be fixed.  Right now there are effectively four versions of your home page:

aa-rentals.com

www.aa-rentals.com

aa-rentals.com/default.asp

www.aa-rentals.com**/**default.asp

also many of your links appear to be forum and comment links.  I would suggest cleaning those up and beginning a natural link building campaign.  I would guess that the last Panda update got you.

Good luck

[tanveer1]

Actually my site is aa-rental.com (withoout ans "s".

[MarieHaynes]

Panda is generally not about your backlink quality.  Be careful not to confuse Panda and Penguin!

[MarieHaynes]

There's a good chance that your site has Panda issues.  I didn't do an in depth evaluation but a quick look showed me a few possible Panda issues:

-There are pages with very little text.  I see images and product descriptions.  Google, especially in the age of Panda does not like these kinds of pages.

-I took some text from one of your pages and did a search in quotes on Google.  See here.  You can see that there are several pages that contain this exact text.  This is another Panda issue.

There was a major Panda update Sep 27.

[Timmmmy]

How about the fact that there's a "-" in the domain name. Isn't that a potential red flag as well?

[tanveer1]

Site is nowhere to be found is Google.com SERPs. Doesnt Panda downgrade some of the keywords like from page 1 to, lets say, page 4 etc. In my case none of the keywords are any where in google. I even checked them in 1000s.

Is there a concrete test that can tell me Im a "Victim" of Panda.

I know I was working with a few folks in India for SEO.

[tanveer1]

Im running this site since 2003. Yes, I do see lots of my competitors dont have "-" in it. How can I verify that this Google update also penalized "-" in this version.

Personally, I think, this cant be the case as content is the most important (technically). Everything else is secondary.