What Happened

[buddy m]

Im not having a good three months as my visitors have dropped. How do I know if I have be banned by any of the search engines?

 

[Conft]

Google site:yourdomain.com to check Google for deindex

 

[buddy m]

My pages are all listed. If I was banned they wouldnt be; is that correct?

And thank you by the way, I appreaciate your reply.

 

[jopaa]

Take a look at your backlink profile as it might be that you've lost some good links or have some very bad ones pointing to your website so it might be a Google penalty

 

[AidanLCFC]

check performance on google search console. are you not manually checking your rankings anyway?

 

[ARZ]

That is the dark side of SEO. One day you attack top positions and day after that your site drops a lot without any single explanation, or manual penalty. Just big G knows it

 

[Frank]

Google is going crazy right now.. i have reverted to biing to find what i need.. there is also massive news media campaigns targeting keywords which seem to be favoured.. intresting

 

[gm2891]

I guess it's worth also keeping an eye on IndexNow, created by Microsoft and Yandex.

 

[AussieDave]

The thing is, until Google's monopoly is challenge, we will always be jumping hoops, and slaves to an alog, which changes at the whim of its master.

 

[danniee]

Sometimes I wonder what the fuck is going on over at Google. Search results are shit these days, full of spam sites, hacked sites, Pintrest or whatever the hell it's called. And everyone doing the faq thing so it looks like shit and then you have the paid ads which take up loads of space so you're nearly pushed down to the second page somethings. Wasn't Google about serving customers the best and most helpful results?

All that probably matters for them now are big tech websites and Youtube, Wikipedia, etc.