Have we been blacklisted?
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Howdy Guys, I imagine you've seen this question a bunch of times before. I've search the old questions and I thought our situation was slightly unique so I thought I'd ask the question. Have we been blocked!
Our website – danz.co.uk no longer appears in the search hot tubs. Infact, it no longer even ranks for its own name! Up until a few days ago we had one of those site maps showing up on the main page – its all gone!
What is really weird is – and the part I thought was slightly unique - is every else one our website, apart from our home page, is still showing up in Google? If you search site:danz.co.uk, Google lists hundreds of our pages and if we search for less important keyword terms, our sites still show up.
So clearly, our whole domain hasn't been blocked, but I fear the home page may well have been?
I can't think where we've gone wrong? I've started some serious link build recently. I've checked all of the links over, none of them have been blacklisted. They're all decent links, mainly directories, some 'follow' blogs, social media etc. Most of the serious links have been posting to the main page – danz.co.uk.
We had a guy doing some SEO for us in the past, he had some really crappy non-follow links but nothing I thought that would have set us back?
It may be useful for you to know that we have a 301 direct from our main page (danz.co.uk) to another page on the same domain – www.danz.co.uk/shop. However, this has been like this for years and never seems to have caused a problem.
Your thoughts? Have we been blocked?
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Thanks for responding back and letting us know the cause. It's helpful to know to ask about this the next time this question comes up -- and it has come up before (though I believe it was a different cause).
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good to hear that
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Hi Guys! Sorry, please ignore me. I've found the problem.
We changed our 'preffered domain' from danz.co.uk to www.danz.co.uk in google webmasters a few days ago.
It appears good is only just getting around to changing it and in the interim, the page was not ranking at all.
I have looked again tonight and 'www.danz.co.uk is now successfully back on page for (for "hot tubs" on Google UK).
Thanks a lot anyway!
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Sorry, just to clarify, yes, there are urls from our domain that rank, but the actual home page, ie. www.danz.co.uk no longer ranks.
www.danz.co.uk/shop/atlantic (or something of the like) may rank, but the main page no longer ranks at all.
The problem of course is www.danz.co.uk has all of the link juice. 2 days ago we used to be page 4, now we're no even in the top 100 (for the key term hot tubs).
By serious link building, I mean we've been adding about 30 links over the period of a week. We started about two weeks ago. I fear this may be the problem.
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I dnt think you are
here is the query and basically your doing fine
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=danz+hot+tubs
what do you mean by serious link building. if you got 200 links in one day its puts some flags
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