Why is this site being deindexed?

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A friend of a friend reached out to me for some help on this site: http://theagencyre.com

The site has some minor problems that I can see, but still nothing to deserve the mass deindexing that is happening. Zero black hat links.

I can't find anything to cause this problem. Anyone smarter see it?
 


You should ask the Google webmaster forums... I'm sure those guys will find 100 ways that site is "breaking the rules"

Only thing I can see is maybe Google doesn't like that footer link, but that'd be pretty crazy to deindex a whole site for one footer link.
 
Yeah.
Supposedly it returned around 18k a day ago so it's still dropping off.

I assumed it was a simple structure problem or some idiot hit the "noindex" button. But there is nothing that I can see.
 
ahh, of course I hear deindex and my mind jumps to Google puttin' the foot down

Well, I can't see anything either other than your meta robots tag is set to index, nofollow, which I don't think should have any effect on your sites indexation but you might consider trying changing it to index, follow. I don't actually know but if that nofollow applies to internal links, I would bet that could cause indexation problems since that would basically mean all the pages on the site are standalone pages.
 
Nothing in WMT? Because...

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"Zero black hat links" with that anchor text distribution. Now that's some funny shit
 
It makes me really sad to see website still using secret black hat techniques in 2014.

I hope Mr Obama will step in with some sensible government program to tackle the problem.
 
In this case I'm using the term "blackhat" as being different from "greyhat". Blackhat is hacked/illegal stuff IMO. Grey is automated spam (or anything really).

From my experience over the years you don't get 4k pages deindexed overnight from a quality-ish site just because there are some spammy links, all without any notices in WMT. Lost rankings I would never argue with, but deindexing... that's another story.
 
It's pretty late so I'll take a lazy shot. This is pretty strange, but first off, if you look at the site closely, there really is no textual content on the homepage - that's VISIBLE. The only thing that's distinguishable from not being part of the template is the slider on the homepage. All the other text is either a part of the header or footer. Footer starts at the 'Join the A-list', Homepage is just the big ass slider with images and hidden caption text.

It could also be one of Google's 'frustration' techniques, where they say "you're site is going to be de-index cause of bad stuff", then wait like 2 weeks to actually do it' to break your spirit - in THIS case, the exact reverse. What I am referring to: Google's Matt Cutts On Search Spammers: "We Want To Break Their Spirits".

So they just started de-indexing your site cause they think you are a spammer, and it's frustrating you, then perhaps in 2 weeks is when you will receive the notice there is a problem. It's crystal clear the backlinks are spam, so at some level the site's been labeled as spam.

Also, it might be a screw up on their side, and you should do a reconsideration request anyways. I know a couple of people that have stated to me "yeah, can you believe this shit, Google said they screwed up and now simply re-indexed my site".

I personally think it's because there is no content and your over-optimized/spammy backlinks anchors, but I don't even SEO. This is a situation where I would PM Grindstone.

Also, found another subdomain: sandbox.theagencyre.com

Good luck bro.​
 
Why do properties have pages and subdomains?

1201 Laurel Way | Beverly Hills - The Agency

1201 Laurel Way - A Beverly Hills Luxury Estate

Subdomain game is so 4 years ago.

Are they selling them as some added bonus to clients? Really is not necessary or safe for SEO.

And as for the number of pages indexed. Who cares really. Isn't 14,000 pages a lot for a local real estate site? What are all of them? Tags? Authors? MLS data from other brokers which is syndicated elsewhere?

I woud try to identify what all this is and decide if it is important. I would try to consolidate pagerank flow if it was me.
 
^ Usually MLS data is syndicated all over the place.

Knowing this, should RE sites with IDX integration allow listings to be indexed? And how G treats sites with MLS Listings content that had been posted multiple times elsewhere?
 
blureach said:
lol, don't be naive.
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I would actually tell you the same.

How many reasonable quality sites do you know that get deindexed because of a small number of crappy links? This site has a whopping grand total of 765 unique domains, with a large portion of those links being better than 95% of the people's on this forum.

I've blasted the fuck out of more sites then I can count and I don't get deindexed. Losing your rankings I would never argue about. That's just part of it if you play this game. But deindexing is a completely different ballgame all together.

Grey sites get slapped. Not deindexed.
 
Anchor Text: Im ok with that anchor text cause "the agency" is really a branded anchor. Looking at the ATD, I see the majority of anchors are brands or no anchors.

Homepage deindexed due to no content? Im gonna disagree with this one. Victoria's Secret: Lingerie and Women's Clothing, Accessories & more. has about as much homepage content as his site. So does nearly every other retail brand and they are all indexed and rank just fine.

I would be concerned with this "Luxurious Montecito Estate on just over an acre, provides privacy and the highest level of quality and detail. The property is fully automated with - See more at: http://www.theagencyre.com/for-sale/799-lilac-dr-montecito/#sthash.bfOThyil.dpuf" - Go in conjunction with this Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Affiliate programs and added value. For real, manipulate that feed coming into your site with some find and replaces. In fact, I would noindex all those dupe listings until I had a solution to make them unique, but Im hardcore.
 
Sites usually don't get deindexed because of spam, you are right on that. Unless of course you somehow pissed off a manuel reviewer, but that is very rare. I've done my share of spamming and never had a site deindexed.

Some common causes of deindexing in my experience:

1) Hacked site
2) Repeated time outs and slow loading time when spider visits, perhaps because of 1)
3) Errors in htaccess, meta robot tags or robots.txt
4) Vast amounts of duplicate content
 
rusvik said:
Sites usually don't get deindexed because of spam, you are right on that. Unless of course you somehow pissed off a manuel reviewer, but that is very rare. I've done my share of spamming and never had a site deindexed.

Some common causes of deindexing in my experience:

1) Hacked site
2) Repeated time outs and slow loading time when spider visits, perhaps because of 1)
3) Errors in htaccess, meta robot tags or robots.txt
4) Vast amounts of duplicate content
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I have personally seen homepages deindexed and only the homepage on several occasions since the roll out of Panda. I have not personally seen this with a Penguin issue. This can happen to a low quality site (duplicate content) with something as simple as a change to the homepage. 9 times out of 10, the homepage came back after 2 weeks.

I think it is going to come down to your duplicate content. Did you make any changes to the site recently?
 
I would nofollow the web design by link in the footer, those are a no-no in this day and
age.

This site looks really good, link profile is pretty good but wtf is all this sandbox. ish showing up?

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You have 10k pages in the supplements so I'd think Panda smacked this site into oblivion. There are also tag pages showing up in the serps and this shouldn't be happening.
 
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