Site Appears to Have Become De-Listed

[philking]

I have just started to work on getting my "local business" site listed in the search engines, and am experiencing a (IMHO) strange effect; my current site which I know has some SEO "issues" like header and footer images (and header contains a java menu; but main menu "href" tags are repeated in HTML in the footer); and it also currently has home page content in images (being changed as we speak) the site WAS indexed in Google for at least several weeks, then I went back to check it today and it is no longer indexed. Is this due to the "structure" issues I already know about, or am I doing something specific that Google finds very bad and I got dropped??

The URL is: http:www.DirectInfoSys.com

Thanks,

Phil

[seobob]

I can tell you this, lately it does not take much to drop in rank from Google. The Google soldiers may have just caught up to your website. Remember Google has launched a multi million dollar project to weed out cheaters. You could be violating a newly implemented Google policy and not even know it. Your link partners could be in violation. If you use a shared IP, someone else could be in violation, and you are paying the price. There are many variables to consider. My advice is play it straight, choose your link partners, and web host wisely. Good Luck........

[philking]

Thanks for the response, yes that appears to be the case; and just when you thought this was going to be a normal conversation...I checked Google's cache today and the site is back in the index... I guess I know why many people believe SEO to be "Black Magic"...

Thanks,

Phil

[coop99]

phil

If the site is newer and has never been indexed before, you are experiencing a normal occurrence at least with Google. They tend to index a site or url in several stages, so at first the site will pop in and out depending on what data center you are querying at the time and what stage of indexing the url is in at that moment.

Just give it a couple of weeks, and keep building back links in order to show Google your url often enough for the indexing to "stick." You can keep checking often, but dont be surprised if at first you are appearing and disappearing in the index. Once it sticks though, you are in like Flynn.

[philking]

Thanks, I really appreciate your time to explain this; it had been indexed for what I thought was "some time" (like 4-5 months; but I didn't check it very often after I saw it first appear in the index) and I have also just lately been adding links, so my personal amateur suspicion is that it was indeed (when I first saw it/submitted it to Google in that like 4-5 month ago time) indexed perhaps as the result of my "manually" submitting it to Google (which I did at that time); then since it appears to the Google software to have "no content" and also no links, it was "de-listed". Then as I built links recently, it was re-indexed.

I assume I don't have to tell you SEO experts (who are of an entrepreneurial mind) that if someone explained this type of behavior to us newbies you could make a fortune; I've purchased 3 of what appear to be the top/best reviewed products on the market for SEO and while I consider them all valuable, none of them do any remote type of explanation of these "getting started"/"what to expect" situations...

Thanks,

Phil

[coop99]

Your site is all flash, so it will not have more than the index page listed anyway in search results unless you link to sub-sections from other sites. When you are link building you should also point links to internal pages on your site so they get indexed too (ie general business section, HIPAA section and info & links sections).

Here is your site listed in Google search results:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=& ... nfosys.com

Looks like they came 4 days ago!

http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:XQU ... =clnk&cd=1

Flash sites are generally harder to rank and require more effort than an HTML type site would.

Seriously consider offering another static version of your site with content and navigation the search engines can 'see.' You can link to the flash site from the static site in order to offer both versions to users and vice versa.