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  • MKA
    Hey...
    • Nov 2011
    • 601

    #1

    SEO question

    2 days ago google decided to "kick" the main page from a domain out of the search results.
    Before this, for many months, it was already "downgraded" and domain.com/page2.html was favored over for some reason and listed on page 1 for many keywords.
    Not a big deal because traffic is traffic and the main page was also getting a ton.

    However now the main page is really gone.
    It don't want to call it de-indexed otherwise the whole domain would be punished. It is free from any other manual action, has no errors, no robots stuff or whatsoever. In fact i did not touched anything at all for a long time.

    so when you search site:domain.com i still get xxxxx domain results but no main page. Anyone has any clue what/where to look for?
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  • gar
    Confirmed User
    • Feb 2021
    • 464

    #2
    The best place to start is inside Google Search Console.

    Ask your friend to access your website (on Chrome) and see if they can access it.

    You probably on "Google Blacklist".
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    • Klen
      • Aug 2006
      • 32234

      #3
      Originally posted by gar
      The best place to start is inside Google Search Console.

      Ask your friend to access your website (on Chrome) and see if they can access it.

      You probably on "Google Blacklist".
      It cannot be blacklisted if other parts of site are visible. But yes going inside search console would be good start, for example one of the causes could be DMCA of front page.

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      • Denny
        Too lazy to set a custom title
        • Feb 2005
        • 17410

        #4
        In January Google deindexed or partially deindexed lots of sites in "teen/young" niche.

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        • MKA
          Hey...
          • Nov 2011
          • 601

          #5
          Search console looks 100%. No dmca, nothing. All tests are positive (live test etc). No render faults.
          The mainpage even shows still indexed,mobile friendly etc etc but maybe because its not updated yet. Meanwhile i requested reindexing and see what it will do.

          In fact there is a positive message saying that page 2 is getting a lot more visitors than before, which is probably because the main page in search results has been replaced by page 2.

          In January Google deindexed or partially deindexed lots of sites in "teen/young" niche.
          This is Amateur/Homemade but probably considered the same. During last core update it even went up 40/50%
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          • Denny
            Too lazy to set a custom title
            • Feb 2005
            • 17410

            #6
            Originally posted by MKA
            Search console looks 100%. No dmca, nothing. All tests are positive (live test etc). No render faults.
            The mainpage even shows still indexed,mobile friendly etc etc but maybe because its not updated yet. Meanwhile i requested reindexing and see what it will do.

            In fact there is a positive message saying that page 2 is getting a lot more visitors than before, which is probably because the main page in search results has been replaced by page 2.



            This is Amateur/Homemade but probably considered the same. During last core update it even went up 40/50%
            One of my sites got hit in January. It doesn't return anything for "site:domain.com". Search console doesn't help, it says the site is indexed and there are no issues. Google traffic was reduced by 80%. Requesting reindexing didn't do anything.

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            • Beaver1
              Confirmed User
              • Dec 2002
              • 651

              #7
              What happened to your competitors on that keyword?

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              • MKA
                Hey...
                • Nov 2011
                • 601

                #8
                Originally posted by Denny
                One of my sites got hit in January. It doesn't return anything for "site:domain.com". Search console doesn't help, it says the site is indexed and there are no issues. Google traffic was reduced by 80%. Requesting reindexing didn't do anything.
                I hope this is not a sign for a total de-indexing soon.
                Not sure why that would happen, the domain is clean for about 15 years already with not one paid backlink.

                What happened to your competitors on that keyword?
                This is not about a keyword (it is site:domain.com) but the main page (all other pages are fine) of a domain not being indexed.
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                • redwhiteandblue
                  Bollocks
                  • Jun 2007
                  • 2785

                  #9
                  This kind of thing seems to happen when your website overall is fine but the page you want to rank is over optimized in some way, so Google chooses a different page to rank in its place.
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                  • Beaver1
                    Confirmed User
                    • Dec 2002
                    • 651

                    #10
                    Originally posted by redwhiteandblue
                    This kind of thing seems to happen when your website overall is fine but the page you want to rank is over optimized in some way,
                    Or the content of this page is too thin
                    or maybe the algo is testing a few other landing pages for this domain.
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                    • MKA
                      Hey...
                      • Nov 2011
                      • 601

                      #11
                      Originally posted by redwhiteandblue
                      This kind of thing seems to happen when your website overall is fine but the page you want to rank is over optimized in some way, so Google chooses a different page to rank in its place.
                      That would be a logical explanation, still however i can´t imagine the page being over optimized, not to mention it is weird to simply de-index the mainpage of a website and keep the rest alive.

                      It does sound logical like i said since page 2 jumped 300% in traffic, but the fact it does not like the mainpage scares me a bit for future updates PLUS when searching the domain you are missing the sitelinks search box results which are normally shown below the main page
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                      • semiraga

                        #12
                        In my experience, this happens when a link penalty is imposed. But don't take my word for it.

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                        • Beaver1
                          Confirmed User
                          • Dec 2002
                          • 651

                          #13
                          Originally posted by MKA
                          It does sound logical like i said since page 2 jumped 300% in traffic,
                          Maybe page 2 has a lower bounce rate or better and fresher content.
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                          • redwhiteandblue
                            Bollocks
                            • Jun 2007
                            • 2785

                            #14
                            Originally posted by MKA
                            That would be a logical explanation, still however i can´t imagine the page being over optimized, not to mention it is weird to simply de-index the mainpage of a website and keep the rest alive.

                            It does sound logical like i said since page 2 jumped 300% in traffic, but the fact it does not like the mainpage scares me a bit for future updates PLUS when searching the domain you are missing the sitelinks search box results which are normally shown below the main page
                            Any possibility of duplicate content between the two pages in question? Or between the page that's gone and any other part of the website?
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                            • boyboy4
                              Confirmed User
                              • Jul 2004
                              • 37

                              #15
                              Originally posted by Denny
                              In January Google deindexed or partially deindexed lots of sites in "teen/young" niche.
                              Is there any solution to this problem?

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                              • MKA
                                Hey...
                                • Nov 2011
                                • 601

                                #16
                                Originally posted by redwhiteandblue
                                Any possibility of duplicate content between the two pages in question? Or between the page that's gone and any other part of the website?

                                It is a tube with hourly updates. Hosted content so no embed stuff. Custom design.
                                Imagine we are talking about the pornhub mainpage. This clearly looks like a penalty, for whatever reason i have no idea about. Maybe i should start buying backlinks for the first time in my life, google seems to appreciate that
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                                • MKA
                                  Hey...
                                  • Nov 2011
                                  • 601

                                  #17


                                  Well, a few days later it seems the homepage has been "picked up" again. It still feels weird why google would totally remove a main page from the results.
                                  Anyway, as i said earlier, traffic wise there wasnt much of an issue since other pages were getting more juice but still, don't touch my mainpage dude.
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                                  • eric_wahlberg
                                    Confirmed User
                                    • Dec 2015
                                    • 614

                                    #18
                                    Originally posted by Denny
                                    In January Google deindexed or partially deindexed lots of sites in "teen/young" niche.
                                    Thanks for telling.

                                    Problem with Google is that it thinks it is the only medium to search for erotic stuff. But the truth is that there are so many social media sites that we don't rely on Google now.

                                    If a person has to look for erotic stuff, he will by hook or crook find it. Its better you create a separate platform for it.
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                                    • j3rkules
                                      VIP
                                      • Jul 2013
                                      • 22101

                                      #19
                                      Originally posted by MKA


                                      Well, a few days later it seems the homepage has been "picked up" again. It still feels weird why google would totally remove a main page from the results.
                                      Anyway, as i said earlier, traffic wise there wasnt much of an issue since other pages were getting more juice but still, don't touch my mainpage dude.
                                      It is really hard to guess without seeing your site. I had something like this happen to my sites that were recent and after some time got the homepage reindexing again.


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                                      • gar
                                        Confirmed User
                                        • Feb 2021
                                        • 464

                                        #20
                                        Did you do something on your homepage?

                                        Usually take about a week when it dance. I bet you sleep easy now haha.
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                                        • CrazyMartin
                                          Confirmed User
                                          • Jan 2009
                                          • 340

                                          #21
                                          Originally posted by semiraga
                                          In my experience, this happens when a link penalty is imposed. But don't take my word for it.
                                          you mean bad links (spammy) to main page?

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                                          • MKA
                                            Hey...
                                            • Nov 2011
                                            • 601

                                            #22
                                            Originally posted by gar
                                            Did you do something on your homepage?

                                            Usually take about a week when it dance. I bet you sleep easy now haha.
                                            No, nothing. I only requested a re-index in search console.
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                                            • NoWhErE
                                              Too lazy to set a custom title
                                              • Sep 2005
                                              • 10583

                                              #23
                                              could be just a dumb technical issue. Have you checked:
                                              - is the page marked as no-index?
                                              - Is robots.txt blocking the frontpage?
                                              - Is the canonical tag set correctly?
                                              - Have you looked in the lumen database to see if you had received a DMCA but didn't get the notice?

                                              Those are some issues I see with 95% of sites.
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                                              • cordoba
                                                Confirmed User
                                                • Feb 2010
                                                • 1371

                                                #24
                                                Originally posted by Denny
                                                In January Google deindexed or partially deindexed lots of sites in "teen/young" niche.
                                                I knew this was going to happen. I'll predict that 'tranny' and 'shemale' sites will be among the next to go, as well as 'step sister' etc (if they aren't already).

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                                                • MKA
                                                  Hey...
                                                  • Nov 2011
                                                  • 601

                                                  #25
                                                  Originally posted by NoWhErE
                                                  could be just a dumb technical issue. Have you checked:
                                                  - is the page marked as no-index?
                                                  - Is robots.txt blocking the frontpage?
                                                  - Is the canonical tag set correctly?
                                                  - Have you looked in the lumen database to see if you had received a DMCA but didn't get the notice?

                                                  Those are some issues I see with 95% of sites.
                                                  Well. We're probably the 5% then. All looks fine again, it was only a 3/4 days google dance (i hope).
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                                                  • Jazzix
                                                    Confirmed User
                                                    • Nov 2019
                                                    • 348

                                                    #26
                                                    Looks like it went back up so what's the problem..

                                                    Figure out what you did around March 14

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                                                    • Holy Damage
                                                      Confirmed User
                                                      • Oct 2013
                                                      • 996

                                                      #27
                                                      Originally posted by Denny
                                                      In January Google deindexed or partially deindexed lots of sites in "teen/young" niche.
                                                      thanks for the info, I didn't know that

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                                                      • jscott
                                                        jscizzle
                                                        • Feb 2001
                                                        • 25421

                                                        #28
                                                        Originally posted by Denny
                                                        One of my sites got hit in January. It doesn't return anything for "site:domain.com". Search console doesn't help, it says the site is indexed and there are no issues. Google traffic was reduced by 80%. Requesting reindexing didn't do anything.
                                                        What used to be my biggest site now shows 0 results when i Google site:domain.com
                                                        It has 18-21 sections

                                                        Anyone have specific articles that talk about this? Any ideas how to fix this? Would it be best to for those with h "teen" in domain name to non-teen urls ?
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                                                        • Klen
                                                          • Aug 2006
                                                          • 32234

                                                          #29
                                                          Just noticed similar thing on one my domain , frontpage not showed at all , first link showed is 2257 link and all other galleries. Checked other domain, that one seems to be fine. My first guess why this happened, is due poor content on frontpage of affected domain.

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