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hopefully that is correct.  I would hate to get knocked down just because I took myself out of the wayback machine.  I have had the domain registered in my name since 2006 so I should be ok then.

I have a site that I had removed from the wayback machine because I didn't want old versions to show. However I noticed that in many seo tools the site now always shows a domain age of zero instead of 6 years ago when I registered it.

My question is what do the actual search engines use to determine age when they factor it into the ranking algorithm? By having it removed from the wayback machine, does that make the search engines think the site is brand new?

Thanks

Ya, well I can't say for sure of course that is what did it.  I agree it seemed awefully harsh given that the dupe content was simply indexing my replytocomments on the same domain.  But I fixed that and a few days later I was back.  So it might just be a coincidence, but the only other thing I did was two weeks ago I installed a plugin to redirect the non www to www.  So it might have been a combination of both of those things.

Yes, I went to site configuration in webmaster tools and it was set to "let google decide" I changed it to noindex any of those urls.

Looks like it was a dupe content issue.  I changed the setting in webmaster tools to not index the reply to comment pages, a few days later all of my rankings came back.

Thanks Anthony, I will send you a PM.  I appreciate it

Hey Ryan, thanks for the tips.  However as I mentioned I know I haven't done any on page optimization for those terms.

I was already in the serps, then updated my title tags a few times while I was doing different keyword searches and then changing my mind.  Then I disappeared from the serps.

So I guess I should have been more clear. I am wondering if there is some sort of google penalty for changing your main title tags around too much.  I don't think there is, but if I am not going to get back for those terms no matter what I do, I didn't want to spend time trying to optimize for those if it was pointless.

It is just weird that I was at least in the results and as soon as I was going to optimize and changed the title and description, then bam I was totally gone. Thought maybe someone would have a guess, but if not, I can move forward and optimize for those and give it a month and see if I show back up.

see above for the site.  How do I look back at the cache? It has been over a month and still hasn't shown back up in the top 1000

Awesome Mark,

Thanks for responding so quickly. I am off to get some no follow links to diversify my link portfolio

I am wondering if no follow links help, hurt, or do nothing when it comes to increasing page and domain authority?

I know they are not supposed to pass rank and I have read discussions that some people suspect they still might, but I am wondering if I have a mix of follow plus no follow, will the no follow ones increase the count of the root domains linking to me and help boost my authority?

Assuming of course the no follow links are coming from quality sites with high page and domain authority of their own.

Thanks.

I was doing some keyword research about 45 days ago and stumbled across two keywords that I was ranking in the mid hundreds and decided I wanted to see if I could rank them.

I went in and changed my title to my blog, and the description.  Then about a week later I changed my mind and wanted to go for two other keywords so I changed it again.

Then within a day or two, my site completely fell off the serps for those two key words that I changed the title to optimize for.

None of my other rankings were effected for any of the other keywords, in fact most of my keywords have risen because of recent backlinking.

I thought it was just a temporary google bounce because I was playing with my title of my blog or something, but after almost two months I am still nowhere to be found for words that I should easily at least be in the top 1000, especially because I was at about 150 by accident.

Anyone have any ideas on what might have happened?

Thanks.

Awesome Mark,

Thanks for responding so quickly. I am off to get some no follow links to diversify my link portfolio