Google has deindexed all my pages

[BlackMoney29]

Hello

I am desperate. 7 days ago my hosting suspended my account because I had not updated the payment methods and google has deindexed all the pages of my website that I had in first position. What can I do about it? They no longer appear even if you search for the title of the page followed by my domain.

The website was dead for 7 days.

Thanks.

 

[hideath]

That's pretty weird and shouldn't really happen that fast,
Usually it takes a couple of weeks at least up to a months, so you were really unlucky about this,

Recover the website/pages with the same content, etc... And send the URLs to GSC to be recrawled,
There's nothing much to do about tbh, just set it back and give it some time and it will rank back eventually

 

[serije3]

I had similar situation, I lost keywords that were 1 rank, and it all happen in day and half. But not deindexed.

 

[BlackMoney29]

That's pretty weird and shouldn't really happen that fast,
Usually it takes a couple of weeks at least up to a months, so you were really unlucky about this,

Recover the website/pages with the same content, etc... And send the URLs to GSC to be recrawled,
There's nothing much to do about tbh, just set it back and give it some time and it will rank back eventually

Is it enough if i send the sitemap? Or need to send every single page one by one?

 

[tazarbm]

I feel like you're not telling us everything... I mean, everything that matters in helping you and which can be disclosed....

1. For example, was your site so profitable that your hosting (probably a smaller / more obscure provider) was tempted to copy-paste and index it, then send DMCA request to Google to take your site down so that they can steal your rankings? Highly unlikely, yes, but not impossible...

2. Is your website so shady / illegal that it could have hurt your hosting, thus making them send requests to google to take it down?

3. is your site in any of the niches that google doesn't like (warez, piracy, guns, etc). If that's the case, then no wonder that it got deindexed

I know that I'm avoiding the reason that was given to you (not having updated your payment method) but the reason for which I've excluded this reason is because I have had hosting accounts expired in the past but I didn't get my sites de-indexed so fast.

 

[hideath]

Is it enough if i send the sitemap? Or need to send every single page one by one?

Fetching the pages individually would be faster, so better,
You can resend the sitemap if the website contains a lot of pages, otherwise go for both,
and even use some indexing services to get them recrawled asap,
Google is considering your website as having technical issues or being abandoned by now, you don't want to keep it that way for any longer

 

[BlackMoney29]

I feel like you're not telling us everything... I mean, everything that matters in helping you and which can be disclosed....

1. For example, was your site so profitable that your hosting (probably a smaller / more obscure provider) was tempted to copy-paste and index it, then send DMCA request to Google to take your site down so that they can steal your rankings? Highly unlikely, yes, but not impossible...

2. Is your website so shady / illegal that it could have hurt your hosting, thus making them send requests to google to take it down?

3. is your site in any of the niches that google doesn't like (warez, piracy, guns, etc). If that's the case, then no wonder that it got deindexed

I know that I'm avoiding the reason that was given to you (not having updated your payment method) but the reason for which I've excluded this reason is because I have had hosting accounts expired in the past but I didn't get my sites de-indexed so fast.

It is a white hat site about informational content of type dog breeds etc... (It is another topic but titles of this style)

100% original content, I spent 500 dollars on original writing and it was generating me an average of 200 per month.

But now I have entered google search console and I have seen something that has left me worried....

Someone submitted crawl my domain xxxx.com/sitemap_index.xml says origin unknown on January 9, 2023 and I didn't submit that.

 

[BlackMoney29]

It is very strange because it has not deindexed all the pages, only the ones that were in first position and with which I was earning money.

They say google will deindex pages if website is down for several days....

https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-will-deindex-pages-if-site-is-down-for-several-days/429903/

 

[tazarbm]

Someone submitted crawl my domain xxxx.com/sitemap_index.xml says origin unknown on January 9, 2023 and I didn't submit that.

if you don't have a 3rd party software (or a plugin if you use WP) that links your site to your GSC then it's weird indeed. But I have no answer to this I'm afraid...

It is very strange because it has not deindexed all the pages, only the ones that were in first position and with which I was earning money.

looks like one of your competitors has DMCA'd your most profitable pages so they can steal your rankings. Either your competitors or, honestly, it could be your hosting provider. Many scumbags among us...

 

[BlackMoney29]

if you don't have a 3rd party software (or a plugin if you use WP) that links your site to your GSC then it's weird indeed. But I have no answer to this I'm afraid...


looks like one of your competitors has DMCA'd your most profitable pages so they can steal your rankings. Either your competitors or, honestly, it could be your hosting provider. Many scumbags among us...

But if my content is original they should not deindex it, right? I also have DMCA on that site

 

[tazarbm]

But if my content is original they should not deindex it, right? I also have DMCA on that site

they shouldn't. But it's already happened before, I've seen a post about this on the forum a few months ago. Google is a total mess nowadays, whoever abuses this mess the most makes the most money...

 

[BlackMoney29]

they shouldn't. But it's already happened before, I've seen a post about this on the forum a few months ago. Google is a total mess nowadays, whoever abuses this mess the most makes the most money...

I am already discouraged... The only site that was motivating me to continue because it was giving me money and now I am at 0.

Is it possible to contact google?

 

[Ababba2]

put up your site again, it should recover a bit in few days.
When your site was suspended, was your homepage redirect to a landing page? If yes, that sitemap could be from the redirect

 

[tazarbm]

I am already discouraged... The only site that was motivating me to continue because it was giving me money and now I am at 0.

Is it possible to contact google?

don't feel discouraged! These things come and go many times in SEO,

And don't put all of your eggs in one basket. That is, don't rely on one site only, keep building more of them. For each site that gets taken down build 5 or 10 more if your budget and time permits. It's a numbers game at the end

I don't know if there's a special page to report fake DMCA takendowns, all I've got is this page (but I don't think it will of too much help, sorry):
https://support.google.com/legal/troubleshooter/1114905?hl=en-GB

 

[BlackMoney29]

don't feel discouraged! These things come and go many times in SEO,

And don't put all of your eggs in one basket. That is, don't rely on one site only, keep building more of them. For each site that gets taken down build 5 or 10 more if your budget and time permits. It's a numbers game at the end

I don't know if there's a special page to report fake DMCA takendowns, all I've got is this page (but I don't think it will of too much help, sorry):
https://support.google.com/legal/troubleshooter/1114905?hl=en-GB

Yes, I'm creating others but I'm not getting any money yet

I found this in my google search console in the indexing problems:

Pages not indexed due to soft 404 error.

These are all the 54 pages that are not indexed.

Curiously, I was notified of this error on the 13th of this month.

 

[tazarbm]

Pages not indexed due to soft 404 error.

this is beyond my knowledge (I'm pretty weak on the technical side of SEO), but I found these that might help you find a reason to / fix for the soft 404 issues:
https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/google-de-indexing-then-re-indexing-and-repeat.1288225/https://wp-rocket.me/blog/google-soft-404-errors-fix/#section-1https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/im-getting-soft-404-errors-on-some-of-my-key-pages.1413286/https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/soft-404-error-after-web-hosting-down-time.1180045/https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/question-about-seo.1288200/