Hi Tom,

Thanks again for your valuable reply, I appreciate it.

if you consider those 1 page links from extremely related & trusted websites as "Low quality" links then I don't know what a good link is.

However, those links you mentioned are links from partners we work with and none of them are sitewide, it doesn't violate TOS in any sort of way and those links are also bringing us relevant and converting traffic, regardless of SEO.

the blogohblog you first mentioned is indeed a terrible mistake and it's under investigation.

If you will check closely you will also see that we do not try to "push" any specific anchor our anchors are mostly general/related to the text anchors.

This edu link comment you gave is worthless, i have no idea who put it there but in no way it should harm our website.

Even with the blogperfume bug and the blogohblog mistake I honestly don't think we deserve any sort of slapping from google or our brand name to disappear so I think it is something else.

Hi Doug,

Thanks for your reply, I don't think that such term "Website Planet" actually mean anything and we used to be ranked #1.

I do however agree that maybe because the website/domain is new and we have a lot of links from partners on the term "WebsitePlanet or Website Planet" google might incorrectly think that we try to promote this "Keyword" and he doesn't realize that this is our brand name.

By the way there is no searches on this "Keyword".

Hi,

Thanks for your reply.
I am compltely transparent and this blogohblog link isn't supposed to be sitewide and it is currently under investigation.

I don't think i've got any serious TOS violations here to be honest as this is probalby the only or one of the only greyhat links that we have.

I also don't think that we got slapped from google by any means it's just that something triggered google to semi-punish us.

I will however be happy to hear what is your suggestions.

Thanks for your time to write this valueable reply !

Hi,

about 20-30 hours ago my own brand name disappeared from google results (We redirected old domain to new one about a month ago)

My website is: www.websiteplanet.com

If you search for Website Planet in google you will not find our homepage any longer.
Not only that the brand name disappeared but we also dropped in rankings and lost about %50 of the organic traffic we had.

It's important for me to say that we have never done any sort of blackhat or even greyhat SEO, at all.

I could probably come up with many ideas of why it happened but maybe one of you mozzers already experienced this and could enlighten me.

Will really appreciate any kind of response/help.

Thanks.

Hi Andrea,

Thanks for your replies.

I decided to retrieve the old domain and do 302 redirect from the new domain to the old one.

I will let google index the old one completely once again and only then i will do 301.

Would love to hear what you think about that.

Thanks,
Eliran.

Hi **Andrea,
Thanks for your reply. **

I have no worries about google getting me back to my rankings, I am sure he will.

The main problem is as you quoted:  "In order for Google to index your new site it has to re-crawl the old site which is redirected there. As each url is accessed, the redirection is found and applied."

Are you suggesting that I need to put websitebuildersworld.com domain backup and let google re-crawl it and only then redirect it?

Thanks,
Eliran.

The reason that comes up to my mind is that basically I didn't let google see WebsiteBuildersWorld.com without the noindex,nofollow removal fix so he wouldn't know what to redirect or something like that because the last time he visited websitebuilderworld.com he saw noindex,nofollow and now he can't visit it anymore because he is being redirected to websiteplanet.com

Hi Adam,

Yes this is what I thought.
But I also had a weird thought that maybe I need to upload the website with the old domain again and let google re-index it and only then do the 301, what do you think about that ?

As for a' and b' yes I will do that.

The thing is that I didn't 'give' google the chance to index the website again with the old domain after I fixed the noindex,nofollow.

Quite hard to explain, but do you get what I mean?

Hi Adam,

Thanks for your reply, but it wasn't really my question I afraid.

The thing is that I wonder if google will index back all our results and put them back in their spots and just redirect to the new domain.

Thanks,
Eliran.