Fluctuation in Ranking for the keywords
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We were ranking well for most of the keywords.These keywords were at first page i.e mostly @ 1st and 2nd position in Google.But we have put the following tag ie no index tag for our pages by mistake and after that the ranking fluctuated & fell down in Google search results as our pages were out of index in Google .We have removed the noindex tag after encountering the problem.Now I can see my pages are cached & indexed in Google after submitting to index in Google webmaster tool.Can I regain my ranking for the keywords and within how many days I would regain my previous ranking?
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Hi there,
For the question of how long rankings will take to come back, unfortunately that's impossible to answer for sure. I had a client once mistakenly point all of their canonical tags at their home page, effectively de-indexing the whole site. The fixed the error within a day, but it took five weeks to get their rankings back. This was a very new website that had very little authority to begin with, but it was still a huge hit to take.
If your site is a little older and more established, your recover should be a lot quicker. Unfortunately it's still very hard to put a time frame on this.
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Here's the instructions:
Ask Google to crawl a page or site:
- On the Webmaster Tools Home page, click the site you want.
- On the Dashboard, under Crawl, click Fetch as Google.
- In the text box, type the path to the page you want to check.
- In the dropdown list, select Web. (You can select another type of page, but currently we only accept submissions for our Web Search index.)
- Click Fetch. Google will fetch the URL you requested. It may take up to 10 or 15 minutes for Fetch status to be updated.
- Once you see a Fetch status of "Successful", click Submit to Index, and then click one of the following:
- To submit the individual URL to Google's index, selectURL and click Submit. You can submit up to 500 URLs a week in this way.
- To submit the URL and all pages linked from it, click URL and all linked pages. You can submit up to 10 of these requests a month.
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At least go into the "Crawl" section in Webmaster Tools, and do a "Fetch as Google" of your domain and all pages. This will ask Google to reindex your whole site. You can also see your page the way Google sees it.
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Hi Anirban,
There is no way to guess how long this can take I'm afraid. I am sure not even Google could tell you this.
The only thing you can do really is keep an eye on your site traffic and position in the SERPs. I am sure that if Google ranked you in the past, that you will get there again.
-Andy
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