Why is Google de-indexing my site???

Ok... I don't understand what's happening here. I've had a site up for a while that was fully indexed in Google. There are only about 15-20 pages, but site traffic was pretty solid. Well, now for some reason Google has decided to DE-INDEX the site for no apparant reason. At least, not one that I can see or understand. I've updated the site only 1 time in the last month, but I wouldn't think that would cause the problems (lack of updates). Can anyone help me out here? Site is:

www .sedunow .com

It doesn't make any sense... I have all original content and don't do any black-hat stuff.

Also, checked my account with Google and stats show:

Encodings
CP1251 Windows Cyrillic (Russian)
US-ASCII

Does that make a difference? I am not sure what those encodings mean and if they can affect the search engine indexing of my site. Any info MUCH appreciated. Thanks.

Avalon

From what I can see, there are 3 pages in the Google index. Looking at the site very shortly, I say that it looks ok to me.
I found out though that you seem to have hardly any backlinks - Google shows 1 only! Another minor thing is that hardly any of your images have alt-tags apparently.
Definitely work on backlinks - I think it's possible that Google just thinks that your page is not important enough to be included in the index completely...

Actually, the site is showing a good number of links. Check the WhoLinksToMe site for link analysis.

# Yahoo! has found 7,340 links to this site.
# MSN Search has found 940 links to this site.

I know it's not a lot, but the site is still kinda new and the numbers are not too bad. I have several other sites with far fewer links showing that are 100% indexed and rank very well with Google. Problem with this one site is that I once had ALL the pages in my site indexed. Now only three. There has to be something wrong. :\


CasinoDawg

looks like

not only google de-index your site but also MSN gives you 0 index

MSN MSN MSN
BLs Index Term
1007 0 1

tool shows you have some broken links (404)

maybe you need to fix them first

hope it helps you

The same thing has happened to me in the last month. I had around 110 pages of my site indexed last month. I barely changed anything and now Google sitemap says I have no pages indexed and if I do a site:www.mysite.com it shows 0 results... However if I just type in www.mysite.com all of my pages still show up. So they are still hidden in the deepest darkest corners of Google's index somewhere. You may want to try a search like that for you site and see if it is the same.

I suspect it's down to your involvement with Freelinksdirect....

Would something like that cause an issue? I noticed that other sites have been using FreeRelevant links and FreeLinksDirect and they rank very high. Also... those sites themselves rank very high (top 10) in MSN and Google under "free links". So, if those sites were causing an issue, wouldn't they be de-indexed themselves?

Also, I removed my participation in the Free Link systems a while back when I started to worry it may cause an issue. The site was indexed by Google after my removal, so I don't think that it's related. Oh, and Google picked up another poage the other night (4 indexed now). It's weird. Is there any way for me to find out exactly what's happened (like contacting MSN or Google)? Thanks.

CasinoDawg

*Would something like that cause an issue?*

It's their MO I'd have my doubts about, they seem to favour using RoS link clusters that include a link to themselves, way too easy to spot/discount IMO.
If you check your links in Y! most seem to be coming from that network...

Well regardless of whether links are discounted, penalized or banned themselves they will not cause any negative 'de-listing' effect to your website.

I would be more inclined to think a copyright issue on images as a cause since we can be reasonably certain the poster didn't take them themselves.

*..they will not cause any negative 'de-listing' effect to your website.*

I wouldn't be so sure, you "lose" links, your PR goes down, your pages fall out of the index, remember all those post-BD threads on WW?

Delisting of a website generally takes a number of factors and not a single one. That said, glengara has given you one very good reason that google might take offense at your site. Do not participate in obvious linking schemes with easily discernable footprints.

I would start going over your website with a fine toothed comb or hire a professional t do so for you. Then when it is squeeky clean, assuming it gets fully deindexed, you can file a reinclusion request. If yo get it cleaned up quickly enough before it is fully deindexed, it may come back on it's own quickly.

Hey WilliamC, long time no see, best of 2007 to you :-)

IMO G seems to have mostly given up banning sites these days your pages just get de-indexed, the effect is not that different just better from the PR POV...

You bring up a good point there... a lot of the images are royalty-free images, but the ones of celebs were taken from various internet sources. I've seen them used on several sites so assumed there wouldn't be any issues. Is there a way to find out of that is indeed the problem? If so I would happily remove them and replace with other royalty-free stock images.


CasinoDawg

Ok... updated my site and removed all images that may have been copyrighted. All that's left are the ads and royalty free images. Here's hoping for the best! Thanks.

I hope you also cleaned up the linking scheme that was pointed out.