My whole directory dropped from google

[vcasebourne]

Hi there

I have lost a whole directory in Google rankings and this is where my traffic was coming from. Do you know why this would happen? It is the eCommerce part of the site.

So if I do site:www.domain.com the site is there and then site:www.domain.com/directory is not there any more.

Thanks for your help.

[Mike_Davis]

What is the URL? There are several things that can cause this.

[KevinBudzynski]

Yeah, give us the url. Could be a wide-range of things including: robots.txt file, directory was renamed, mistake you made in webmaster's tool and so on.

[Anti-Alex]

Sounds like you're seeing the affects of Penguin 2.0 which just came out. I'd start by investigating your links and seeing what happened to those.

Besides that the URL would be handy.

[MichaelYork]

Start with the simple as Mike and Kevin said, there are numerous things before you begin looking at Penguin or any other algorithm changes affecting the results for drastic changes.

Alex - while you may be correct, this is definitely not the best spot for Victoria to start.