Thread: Google dropped my website

Hi,
Just out of curiosity I was wondering, I published my first website when I only
had three pages done www.trygoogleadwords.com. I was surprised that Google spidered it within three days or so and put it within the first few pages
under several keywords. I meant to add more pages quickly but you know how that can go with work and all. Now about 2-3 weeks later the site isn't listed on Google at all?? Thanks for letting me pick your brain.
Jerryl

Google have NOT dropped you...
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=htt...hl=en&filter=0

Google is funny. I have had urls listed for a couple of weeks then dropped, then picked up again and dropped, and then again picked up. well now the site is up six months now and the past month my urls are listed. I believe when your knew they do this. And the pages that where like yoyos where anywhere from page one to page 5 so hang in there.

You need to keep your content fresh and updated to stay ranked at the top. Best way is to add RSS feeds to the page so that it is constantly updated without you having to do anything to it. Works like a charm for some of my web pages

Thanks for the feedback guys,
I should have said my position changed not that I was dropped. I thought
your position (what page you are on in the search results of a keyword)
would remain the same, but I realize this is not the case.
Anyway could you explain what a RSS feed is and how to utilize it please
Mook25 Thanks alot for all the help,
Jerryl

RSS is a format for syndicating news and the content of news-like sites, including major news sites like bbc news, news-oriented community sites like Slashdot, and personal weblogs. It's not just for news though as pretty much anything that can be broken down into discrete items can be syndicated via RSS

Add the below code to your page where you want the RSS feed to appear either by inputing directly via dreamweaver or something similar or if i remember rightly Bluevoda has an option to input PHP code but not 100% sure. Once this has been input don't forget to change the RSS feed to what ever you want by changing the link i've highlighted as red.

You can find a whole host of RSS feeds here

PHP Code:

<?php
$insideitem = false;
$tag = "";
$title = "";
$description = "";
$link = "";
$locations = array('http://www.worldwidewords.org/rss/updates.xml');
srand((float) microtime() * 10000000); // seed the random gen 
$random_key = array_rand($locations);
function startElement($parser, $name, $attrs) {
 global $insideitem, $tag, $title, $description, $link;
 if ($insideitem) {
  $tag = $name;
 } elseif ($name == "ITEM") {
  $insideitem = true;
 }
}
function endElement($parser, $name) {
 global $insideitem, $tag, $title, $description, $link;
 if ($name == "ITEM") {
  printf("<dt><b><a href='%s' target=new>%s</a></b></dt>",
  trim($link),htmlspecialchars(trim($title)));
  printf("<dt>%s</dt><br><br>",htmlspecialchars(trim($description)));
  $title = "";
  $description = "";
  $link = "";
  $insideitem = false;
 }
}
function characterData($parser, $data) {
 global $insideitem, $tag, $title, $description, $link;
 if ($insideitem) {
 switch ($tag) {
  case "TITLE":
  $title .= $data;
  break;
  case "DESCRIPTION":
  $description .= $data;
  break;
  case "LINK":
  $link .= $data;
  break;
 }
 }
}
$xml_parser = xml_parser_create();
xml_set_element_handler($xml_parser, "startElement", "endElement");
xml_set_character_data_handler($xml_parser, "characterData");
$fp = fopen($locations[$random_key], 'r')
 or die("Error reading RSS data.");
while ($data = fread($fp, 4096))
 xml_parse($xml_parser, $data, feof($fp))
  or die(sprintf("XML error: %s at line %d",
   xml_error_string(xml_get_error_code($xml_parser)),    
   xml_get_current_line_number($xml_parser)));
fclose($fp);
xml_parser_free($xml_parser);
?>

Hey,
Thanks for the info Mook25, do you have a website with a RSS feed working
that I could look at? Or suggest a few others? I'm just getting comfortable
with BlueVoda so the RSS feed may be beyond my abilities now, but this will be an ongoing learning experience so I'm looking forward to using it in the future.
Thanks again
jerryl

Originally Posted by Mook25

You need to keep your content fresh and updated to stay ranked at the top.

hmmmm... does this mean the website that was built 8 years ago and has never ever changed a single thing on their website will be lost in rankings? I don't think so. But, certainly, if you have relevant, new content, related to your topic, by all means your website should be updated.