Lost ALL my rankings

[Christian_T]

Dear experts,

We have suddenly lost all our positions on our keywords, I’m talking for example from position 2 to 35 in one huge drop .

Even when you search for our name and domain name namely “KV16”, the main page does NOT come up. (We do however still get the local business / map result on the right side!)

I have looked in google search console, but nothing to see here – no penalty. However, I need to mention, that we just now, after the issue, setup the google search console – so maybe that is why there is no information about a penalty!? (If the problem is a penalty, btw we have not been doing any link building!)

One year ago, we made a permanent redirect from our old site, www.kontoret-gammeltorv.dk, because we moved our coworking office, to a new location, and needed a new name – (because the old name is referring to a location, hence no longer made sense.) This worked flawlessly, and we got all the link juice, and the new site ranked just as good as the old one.

Aprox four months ago, we made some changes to the site, where we amongst other things, changed the title description on the frontpage, focusing more on another keyword – and doing this we unknowingly change the permalink to the frontpage (in WordPress). I have read that this can do some real damage, however its so long ago, that it seems unlikely to be the cause!?

Please help!?

Thanks a million, in advance.

Cheers, Christian

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[R0bin_L0rd]

Happy to help Good luck!

[Christian_T]

Hi Robin

We canonicalised the homepage to "https://kv16.dk" instead and that corrected the issue with the page not showing up in google. I don't think the page ever worked in noscript mode, but I will look into potentially optimizing it if that helps the google rankings. However our page does not initially rank as high as it used to, but I hope time will fix this issue.

Thank you so much for your analysis, it helped us find and correct the cause of the issue and I appreciate that a lot!

Cheers, Christian

[R0bin_L0rd]

Hi there, sorry to hear you're in such a stressful situation.

I think the site in question is probably this one based on what you were saying. By doing a site: search for that site I can see pages appearing, so I think it's unlikely that the site has been removed from the index. However, I can see that if I turn off JavaScript on the homepage it is pretty much blank and is canonicalised to another page - bedste-kontorfaellesskab-koebenhavn-k/

That page in turn redirects to the homepage, that's going to be giving Google some pretty confusing signals about the site - with JS off it looks like the pages are blank and canonicalised to a redirecting page. I'd definitely have a look into that.