All Keywords Down.
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all keywords are down all of a sudden. Any input will be appreciated. Everything was just working fine. Was that a result of Panda or Penguin update?
Under webmaster there is no yellow question mark. Everyhting looks good in "Onpage" optimization. SOS.
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Ive never got used to using allow although I know many people do. I simply use:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Sitemap: http://www.aa-rental.com/Where user agent * means all crawlers;
Where disallow: /cgi-bin/ means i dont want them crawling that folder (put in any folder name there) but they can crawl anywhere else...
Sitemap: points to my XML sitemap
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Here is more info and my site is aa-rental.com
Since last Friday (09/28/12) all of my keyword ranking is gone. I checked the webmaster and found, among the others, one error:
"access denied"
"1 error found"
when I mouse over this error itt says:
"server requires login or is blocking googlebot"
Im trying to see if this thing has to do with the sudden drop of ranking? I have other sites on the webmaster and none of them is showing this type of error. And they are ranking fine.
Also when I check individual urls they are there (indexed).
Another thing, robots.txt is configured like this since from day 1:
User-agent: *
Allow: /Is this the correct format?
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Since last Friday (09/28/12) all of my keyword ranking is gone. I checked the webmaster and found, among the others, one error:
"access denied"
"1 error found"
when I mouse over this error itt says:
"server requires login or is blocking googlebot"
Im trying to see if this thing has to do with the sudden drop of ranking? I have other sites on the webmaster and none of them is showing this type of error. And they are ranking fine.
Also when I check individual urls they are there (indexed).
Another thing, robots.txt is configured like this since from day 1:
User-agent: *
Allow: /Is this the correct format?
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Thanks for asking
Here is the url
We are in businesss since 1996.
Since last Friday (09/28/12) all of my keyword ranking is gone. I checked the webmaster and found, among the others, one error:
"access denied"
"1 error found"
when I mouse over this error itt says:
"server requires login or is blocking googlebot"
Im trying to see if this thing has to do with the sudden drop of ranking? I have other sites on the webmaster and none of them is showing this type of error. And they are ranking fine.
Also when I check individual urls they are there (indexed).
Another thing, robots.txt is configured like this since from day 1:
User-agent: *
Allow: /Is this the correct format?
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It is not seasonal. I have seen keywords going up/down but this time they are gone from first 500. This never happened to my site ever before. We are in businesss since 1996.
Since last Friday (09/28/12) all of my keyword ranking is gone. I checked the webmaster and found, among the others, one error:
"access denied"
"1 error found"
when I mouse over this error itt says:
"server requires login or is blocking googlebot"
Im trying to see if this thing has to do with the sudden drop of ranking? I have other sites on the webmaster and none of them is showing this type of error. And they are ranking fine.
Also when I check individual urls they are there (indexed).
Another thing, robots.txt is configured like this since from day 1:
User-agent: *
Allow: /Is this the correct format?
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Is it from all search engines that you have a decrease in traffic, or just Google?
Is there any increase in (not provided) that would account for traffic to other keywords going down?
Have you made changes to your site recently?
Has a new competitor moved into your space?
Are the keywords at all seasonal? Extreme example, but in January you would expect searches for Christmas to go down, for instance.
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I am not sure how to respond to it as your information is quite less...at least prove the URL so that i can exactly look in to the issue and can help you with possible fixes...
At the moment i can say this can be Panda, Penguin and if you have the exact match domain then this can be one of the possibilities as Goole comes up with a small algorithm update about EMD.
Try to provide the URL so that we all can get more in to your problem in specific....
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Don't look for a question mark, go to the site's profile and look for an email - it will tell you that Google has found unnatural links. Keep in mind that sometimes these emails come 4 or 5 days after the [penalty has been applied.You may have to wait a few days (unless this happened some time ago).
If it's Penguin you wont get a notification. Others may disagree but the Penguin recoveries Ive performed were almost exclusively due to a higher than "natural" appearance of keyword anchor text links in the link profile. If you check your backlinks in OSE, and find that you have a high percentage of links that all use your money kw, then yo will need to have those backlinks diversified.
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Stay on top of news my friend. There was a new Google update for exact match domains and allot of innocent by-standards were hit with shrapnel.
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/googles-emd-algo-update-early-data
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