Anyone seen this before?
I had a few PBN posts pointed at a single URL on one of my sites. 3 to 4 days later the URL and ONLY that URL, is deindexed from Google. A dance would be normal but literally this page has just disappeared from SERPS. This site has 1000's of pages indexed too.
Anyone ever seen this before because I'm like WTF?
Thanks for any input.
Gxxgle is, in my recent experiences, going through a period of transformation. Likely, any prediction of their behavior would stand to be wrong right now, so I'll just convey my personal experience in the last few weeks.
I too, had a page that was indexed, and was floating somewhere on page 4. The authority of my domain, and internal links had gotten the page there. I floated a few PBN links towards it, and waited. It moved up to page 2-3 and danced for a week or so, and then completely disappeared. It was gone for like 2 weeks, and I asking myself the same questions you are asking yourself: "has my pbn become toxic?", "has the new updates penalized my site?", etc... None of the pages I was ranking for already suffered, so I didn't panic. I continued as normal, and built a second and third tier of links to that page, and just waited.
It came back from nowhere, to the bottom of page 1!
By all my measures it was a fairly competitive keyword, getting around 1000 searches a month, and containing 'best'. Like I said, it's been my experience with gxxgle lately that things are changing, obviously with the new mobile index, but also with their core ranking algorithm.
I'd take a deep breath, and unless you receive messages in your search console (webmaster tools) I would continue with business as usual.
