HEADS UP - Did Google Grant WMT and GA admin access to your past employees or contractors?
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Check your users and permissions in WMT and GA. I noticed that two Gmail accounts from a while back were given admin access to our accounts!
That means someone that used to work for you could go in and remove your site from Googles index. Check your accounts folks just a heads up
Here is an article talking about this potentially dangerous issue.
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Thanks for the post Irving. Happen to me as well!
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