Website Essentially Delisted and Top SERPS Removed

[CatdiPrinting]

So what a morning.... Did a search for our website and looked to see how we were doing with a couple of search terms and it turns out our website is GONE. I mean not a slap down or fluctuations in positioning but we are literal gone.

I see that the contact page is pulls up on page 8 but effectively we dont exist. This is so odd and strange that i feel that this is a dream. The fact that we dont pull up on any search terms anymore is of a concern that this is something more than a penalty. What on Earth could have caused this? This is fluke? Can i call Google?

Seems that index page has been removed from the search results

Website www.catdi.com

Catdi Printing

Search Terms

Houston Printing

Houston Direct Mail

EDDM Printing EDDM

Help!

C

[CatdiPrinting]

Hi Nick,  do you think they are targeting particular groups? I wouldn't put past Google...

[NickSamuel]

I saw this on Twitter, I'm not sure how I feel about how John downplayed it with a joke though

[NickSamuel]

Great, thanks for also confirming.

[Xiano]

The issue is now being reported as fixed, with a response from Google’s John Mueller saying it was a technical issue their end. https://searchengineland.com/google-de-indexing-issue-now-fixed-result-of-technical-issues-315058

[robandsarahgillespie]

Myself and a friend (who is a competitor) both had the same problem.  Doing a URL Inspection in Google Search Console - specifically the Test Live URL thing - fixed it immediately.

[NickSamuel]

Alex is right this was likely a temporary thing.

It's probably still worth checking your Google Search Console though in the very unlikely case there's any warning messages or manual actions.

I've just performed a site search for you and can see 330 results for "canonical" domain and 545 for all subdomains.

You also appeared for a brand search, so hopefully you are good now.

If it still isn't, please try and crawl + submit for indexing within GSC. This has reportedly returned ranks for quite a lot of SEOs.

Good luck,

Nick

[CatdiPrinting]

Thank you for the update.

[Xiano]

You're the third person (that I've seen) reporting the issue here on the Moz Q&A.

SEO Round Table have an article about it: https://www.seroundtable.com/google-dropping-pages-out-of-the-search-index-27369.html

Bottom line, you're not alone, and there is no response from Google yet on what is going on!