Two days ago, the website dropped out of the results and I don’t have a clue what happened. I searched for my website and it is still in google index but it is really low down. If I sign into my google account, the site briefly came back up yesterday night but now has vanished again. I don’t really know too much about webdesign but would really appreciate any help. I have submitted a sitemap in xml to google, signed into webmaster tools and there is no errors and google can crawl the site and the server fine. So I am very puzzled. Perhaps an expert or someone with more experience than me can kindly point me into the right direction. The site hasn’t moved from any server or had a major update so I have ruled that one out. I am not too sure what to do any all help is appreciated. What I don’t get is why none of the pages on the server appear too, as previously you’d get the domain name and tonnes of pages on the server. The content is unique and it is all written by me.
It is happen when the site is no longer updated. If you will not update your site for a long time then your SERP comes down. You should update your site very frequently and special thing is that you should keep building backlinks regularly for your site.
However, it also appears under two different domains - flowoflava.com and imovatedesign.co.uk - which may be making Google regard it as duplicate content. I doubt the answer is as simple as that, but it’s one possible factor.
Neither version of the site is very search-engine friendly, which may be another reason why it has dropped compared to other sites (although I didn’t look too closely at the sites that do rank well).
I did enjoy a wee glow of nostalgia looking at your site.
Many thanks for your message. I think google might be looking at it as duplicate content so if I turn off framed web forwarding would it help? It is a very nostalgic site and I am glad you liked it. To the other guy that thinks it is a spam page, that is simply the first page of the site which has an entrance image and some text under it. I don’t expect it to come up although it used to, but I expect the other pages with the info to come up and it isn’t spam, it is an accurate description of the site.
is the history of the lava lamp, a non-profit, independent, website created and designed by Anthony Voz, that provides documentation regarding the history of Crestworth & Mathmos lava lamp and related products. We are the historical archive of the history of the lava lamp. All images on the site are copyright of their respective copyright holders. Flowoflava.com is an UK website that documents the history of the Astro Lamp which became an eternal cultural phenomenon. We provide a comphensive guide to the history of the lava lamp, vintage lava lamp models such as: Astro lava lamp, Astro Mini lava lamp, Astro Nordic lava lamp, Telstar lava lamp, vintage 1990s Mathmos lava lamps such as Lunar, Telstar, Astro Baby, Glitter Baby. We are independent from Mathmos Ltd. All information has been sourced from retired brochures and actual product models.
Thats obviously written for the search engines and not the user.
The site meets the very definition of what a doorway is. Its the exact sort of site that Google and the user does not want in the search results. Its spam.
I strongly disagree. It is a typical home page that has a little bit of information and then links through to the rest of the site.
IMO the main problems that the site faces are (1) 100% frames meaning that few people will link to inner pages, (2) little or no text content because most of the text is saved as images.
No, that’s not true. There might (or might not) be an SEO advantage in updating your site frequently, but there is absolutely no evidence to say that a site that’s not updated will drop out of the search results. Just look at some of the sites that come up in your own searches. There are bound to be some there that haven’t been touched for years.
I suggest you have a carful read of Google’s Webmaster Quality Guidelines. If you think your site is infringing any of them, fix it, then submit a reconsideration request to Google (which you from Google Webmaster Tools).
