Why is this page removed from Google & Bing indices?

[Ehren]

This page has been removed from indices at Bing and Google, and I can't figure out why.

http://www.pingg.com/occasion/weddings

• This page used to be in those indices
• There are plenty of internal links to it
• The rest of the site is fine
• It's not blocked by meta robots, robots.txt or canonical URL
• There's nothing else to suggest that the page is being penalized

[RyanKent]

From a SEO perspective, the page offers little to no value for search engines. The better question is...why would a search engine include this page in their index? What query might a user type in where this page would satisfy the result and the user would think "ahhh perfect, this is exactly what I was looking for"?

There are multiple issues with the page:

1. It has very little unique content. It is similar to a category page. It mostly contains snippets of other articles with links to those pages.

2. The title is almost a match for the home page's title. The home page shows 611 linking root domains. The /weddings page has no external links visible in OSE. The title is supposed to be the main focus of the page. This title lacks focus and attempts to target too many keywords. Additionally, the same keywords are cannibalized on the home page which should win.

3. The only unique content on the page is a couple paragraphs at the bottom of the page. Those paragraphs appear to have been written for search engines, not people. The first sentence of the first paragraph is generally the most important. The first sentence shared is "A wedding is more than just the one wedding day." There is not any realistic search query a person would ever enter where that sentence would be desired as a result.

If you feel this evaluation is harsh, that's fine but I am sharing what is the likely view of search engines when reviewing this page. Give search engines a reason to WANT to index the page. Offer quality, helpful, unique content which is not available elsewhere, including on your own site, and the page should be indexed.

[loopyal]

It looks like you have a number of duplicate pages.

Did you just change your sitemap?

Your internal pages are all marked as 0% priority.

That is a weird setting

• this page is 0% too