webfut
16-05-2003, 11:42/11:42AM
Hello All,
I have been searching for my answer and thought I would post. I hope you folks can help end my suffering.
http://www.sandlermercer.com
This site has had a drop in pagerank from 3 to 2 and lost it's backward links in the toolbar. We have been online for over 3 years and although we had limited backward links, they did show up in the past. I am trying to build their backward links up but want to solve this problem first.
My host has http://sandlermercer.com (no www in address) as the main site with a server side redirect on the http://www.sandlermercer.com address. Obviously both addresses are the same sight so a visitor will find us with or without the www. My thought is that Google may think this is a duplicate site (although the server side redirect should fix this). I used a little trick in Google that let me see if maybe I have been banned and found that the two addresses have different numbers of backward links. ("+www.sandlermercer.+com" and "+sandlermercer.+com")
Almost like they were two different sites?? Is this normal?
Could this be my problem? I opened a AdWord campaign two months ago around the time my free listings disappeared. I know it must just be a coincidence.
The site has no spam and I am at a loss as to why there are no backward links and we don't rank well for anything anymore. I even added alot of new content a couple of months ago, and it did not do a thing.
I have read this problem from other web designers, but we don't know if it is a bug in the algo, or something we just haven't figured out yet.
Any help on this mystery would be greatly appreciated.
I have been searching for my answer and thought I would post. I hope you folks can help end my suffering.
http://www.sandlermercer.com
This site has had a drop in pagerank from 3 to 2 and lost it's backward links in the toolbar. We have been online for over 3 years and although we had limited backward links, they did show up in the past. I am trying to build their backward links up but want to solve this problem first.
My host has http://sandlermercer.com (no www in address) as the main site with a server side redirect on the http://www.sandlermercer.com address. Obviously both addresses are the same sight so a visitor will find us with or without the www. My thought is that Google may think this is a duplicate site (although the server side redirect should fix this). I used a little trick in Google that let me see if maybe I have been banned and found that the two addresses have different numbers of backward links. ("+www.sandlermercer.+com" and "+sandlermercer.+com")
Almost like they were two different sites?? Is this normal?
Could this be my problem? I opened a AdWord campaign two months ago around the time my free listings disappeared. I know it must just be a coincidence.
The site has no spam and I am at a loss as to why there are no backward links and we don't rank well for anything anymore. I even added alot of new content a couple of months ago, and it did not do a thing.
I have read this problem from other web designers, but we don't know if it is a bug in the algo, or something we just haven't figured out yet.
Any help on this mystery would be greatly appreciated.