Gone Missing!

[wolf23]

I'm a newbie to SEO so please understand if this is a familiar question.One of my pages has been positioned at #8 for a couple of months now, but over the weekend it disappeared completely from Google!Strangely, this page is still returned by Google when searching with my other keywords.Does Google block a single page and keyword combination -- though I don't think I've done anything "illegal" ?Any help would be appreciated.OOPS - it's still there. Looks like I just dropped from page 1 to page 27.I must have just overlooked it in my 'confused' state of mind.If you want to post a url we might be able to figure out why it dropped so far back.Thanks for offering phaugh!Here is the page:http://www.cmccontrols.com/programmable ... ontrol.aspHere is the keyword:soft plcThanks again.[/url]hummm....your on page seo looks good...really good. You could move the soft plc to the beginning of your title. Also the sites linking to that page from their menu"http://www.motionscienceinc.com/""http://www.clevelandkidder.com/""http://www.torquesystems.com/"are these all on the same IP. That could cause an issue. Get a few links from other sites to that page to make it a more natural link structure.Maybe vary the anchor text as well. Right now 186 links from three sites all link to the page using the same exact anchor text.Phaugh. Could you take a look at http://www.eden4flowers.co.uk the site is PR6 but has dropped from page one listings to being nearly out of sight any advise would be great Thanks Markphaugh,I'm pretty sure those sites each have a unique IP.I'll change the anchor text as suggested.I'm also considering creating a copy of the programmable_automation_control.asp page, renaming it soft_plc.asp, pointing all of my external references to the new page, changing all product references on the new page to Soft PLC and switching the order of the paragraphs.Do you think that is enough of a change not to be considered duplicate content? The pictures would be the same and so would the page structure and remaining content.Just curious.I checked the ip's out. You have three sites on one ip and one site on another. Also the dns registration information and name servers for each domain are the same. It's been rumored that google is using this type of information to spot crosslinked sites owned by the same person/company.The way to avoid detection is to get many more links so that your crosslinking blends in to the mix. You're not over doing it IMO.I also see issues with dupe content. There's lots of redundancy between sitesMaking change to your pages will help....it could also get google to come back and crawl more of your site looking for more new content.....and that's always a good thing.Hi Mark...Was the drop in yahoo?Looks to me like you're ok in google. #7 for UK Flowers out of 24million+ sites is not too shabby!Hey Mark...I see you in yahoo too.http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=uk+flo ... web-t&b=11Do I have the right search term?Thanks phaugh for the advice.I've often thought there are better ways to structure our sites (like breaking each into a microsite), but I haven't had the time to fully research the pros/cons.Maybe this is something I'll check into now.We own our own server and are locked into a long term deal with our provider who also handles our DNS. I don't think I could spread this out, but it something else to check on.One more question. What did you think of site's page layout, colors, etc. Its my first site and I haven't asked for input yet. Any thoughts would be great.You could look in to custom name servers. Start a new thread and maybe try to get Axe's attention...he knows a lot about those. You could also see if your provider has any other class c ip addresses available and have you server use one of those as well. All of these things are relatively cheap considering you stand a chance of losing one or more of your site's rankings....and all the work you put in."One more question. What did you think of site's page layout, colors, etc. Its my first site and I haven't asked for input yet. Any thoughts would be great." ...the layout is good and like I said before...what you're displaying to the search engines is perfect. Good progression of Hx tags, all the navigation is visible and all the pages are connected to each other making good use of anchor text and internal linking.As for colors and design you're asking the wrong guy I have designer that does all that for me. I'm the nuts and bolts guy.Good luck!If you saw these big changes in Yahoo and Google over the past few days, well late Sunday or early Monday, then your site was effected by the recent update-gone-live in Google (Jagger 3) and the mini-update in Yahoo. Both these updates could have effected your serp positioning.My google positions all moved up but yahoo went from #1 to #35. I have a theory about either recip links or one way links being effected...nut I don't have enough sample to prove it for sure. Have two sites that did a lot of three way linking and have lots of one way links they stayed where they were in yahoo or moved up slightly. It doesn't seem to be industry related.Yeah, I think, as many have suspected, recip links are becoming less and less valued. This may be for newer sites though, as I have a ton of recip links for older sites, and they all moved up in Google and Yahoo.I am starting to do more and more 3-way links as I think this will be a safer way over the next few years.