Ranks gone out of nowhere

Fortify99

Fortify99

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So my domain has been around for about a year and a half, it's for my social media growth agency.

Today I suddenly looked it up and on keywords it used to rank 4th/5th I literally can't find it anymore, even on the next few pages it's not there.

Was alerted to this when SEMrush notified me I'd dropped from 60th to 100+ and 80th to 100+ on two big keywords that I've been attempting to rank for a long time.

Anyone know why this might be?

When I search up the name of my business the home page that ranks 1st seems to have gone too?!

Would appreciate any help!
 
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Log into search console and check what notifications you have. If Google are penalizing you there's going to be a warning in there.

Also it might help to look at these types of sites: hxxps://www.siteguarding.com/en/website-spam-scanner
 
l33t_soup said:
Log into search console and check what notifications you have. If Google are penalizing you there's going to be a warning in there.

Also it might help to look at these types of sites: hxxps://www.siteguarding.com/en/website-spam-scanner
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Looked on search console and no new notifications, and the link you sent didn't turn up anything for spam... I really have no idea what it could be!
 
Probably still indexing problems. One Of my websites are disappearing regularly for about 12-24hrs and getting back to top10.
 
LaurenceM said:
Looked on search console and no new notifications, and the link you sent didn't turn up anything for spam... I really have no idea what it could be!
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I wonder if its a GEO related indexing issue?
 
You might have been deindexed, but you need to confirm through GSC
 
BimTop said:
You might have been deindexed, but you need to confirm through GSC
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Which part of google search console will confirm this and how would I go about getting indexed again? I noticed my contact us page is still appearing in search.
 
BimTop said:
You might have been deindexed, but you need to confirm through GSC
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I think OP has tried GSC?

What result do you get in GSC when you try link checker?

LaurenceM said:
Which part of google search console will confirm this and how would I go about getting indexed again? I noticed my contact us page is still appearing in search.
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Just tried typing it in here and it says it's not indexed because:

'Alternative page with proper canonical tag'

Not quite sure what this means? As far as I'm aware I only have 1 home page
 
Yeah, this is a pain in the ass, but easily solved.

What CMS are you using - and does this show up on internal pages too?
 
l33t_soup said:
Yeah, this is a pain in the ass, but easily solved.

What CMS are you using - and does this show up on internal pages too?
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Wordpress. How do you mean show up on internal pages?
 
Have you searched internal pages in the link checker?

For WordPress, YOAST gives you a pretty in depth feel for canonical. Its worth understanding so you don't get hit again. I had deindexing issues because of this a while back, and I had to brush up...

https://yoast.com/rel-canonical/
 
l33t_soup said:
Have you searched internal pages in the link checker?

For WordPress, YOAST gives you a pretty in depth feel for canonical. Its worth understanding so you don't get hit again. I had deindexing issues because of this a while back, and I had to brush up...

https://yoast.com/rel-canonical/
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Could this have something to do with me buying 2 similar domains that I set to redirect to my main one a couple of months ago?
 
LaurenceM said:
Could this have something to do with me buying 2 similar domains that I set to redirect to my main one a couple of months ago?
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All depends how canonical are set up, but I don't know on that one
 
1. Update is rolling out as we speak
2. Check your site in google search like this:

site:yourdomain.com

If your page pops up then you are not penalised.
 
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