Hello,

It apprears that our homepage (http://www.voyages.com.au/) has been
removed from Google search index.

Voyages Hotels & Resorts is a well known australian resort operator
servicing more than 600,000 guests annually across more than 20
properties. The site was indexed and was shown in No 1 position for
"voyages hotels and resorts" or "voyages" keywords up to around 1 month
ago.

Also, there is a large number of web sites that link to our site.

We would highly appreciate if you could provide us with some response
to this.

Regards,

Alex Radyushin
alex.radyushin@voyages.com.au
Voyages Hotels & Resorts
www.voyages.com.au

On 26 Nov 2006 16:46:27 -0800, webmaster@voyages.com.au wrote:

>Hello,

Hi Alex

>It apprears that our homepage (http://www.voyages.com.au/) has been
>removed from Google search index.

I just checked on 64.233.183.104 and you are still there.
Your homepage was last cached 23 Nov 2006

>Voyages Hotels & Resorts is a well known australian resort operator
>servicing more than 600,000 guests annually across more than 20
>properties. The site was indexed and was shown in No 1 position for
>"voyages hotels and resorts" or "voyages" keywords up to around 1 month
>ago.

You still are on 64.233.183.104


>Also, there is a large number of web sites that link to our site.

site:voyages.com.au
produces 217

>We would highly appreciate if you could provide us with some response
>to this.
>
>Regards,

hth
plh
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<webmaster@voyages.com.au> wrote ...
> It apprears that our homepage (http://www.voyages.com.au/) has been
> removed from Google search index.

You may well be right. And you need to find out what you have done wrong
before alicespringsresort goes the same way.

Start by cross examining anyone from whom you have bought advice or services
that have affected the site.

Then read Google's guidelines.

DO NOT make a reinclusion request until you have fixed the problem.

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On 26 Nov 2006 16:46:27 -0800, webmaster@voyages.com.au wrote:

>Hello,
>
>It apprears that our homepage (http://www.voyages.com.au/) has been
>removed from Google search index.

Seems fine from here, what made you think you had a problem?

>Voyages Hotels & Resorts is a well known australian resort operator
>servicing more than 600,000 guests annually across more than 20
>properties. The site was indexed and was shown in No 1 position for
>"voyages hotels and resorts" or "voyages" keywords up to around 1 month
>ago.
>
>Also, there is a large number of web sites that link to our site.
>
>We would highly appreciate if you could provide us with some response
>to this.

I dunno what seems to be the problem Alex. I did site: and up you came
ok. I'm miserable now, I yearn when I see pix of the Barrier Reef :-(

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> Also, there is a large number of web sites that link to our site.

And most are completely bogus. The old trick of registering a few
dozen domain names and having them all point to the main site doesn't
work any more.

Your voyages.co.au site is at 202.58.54.122. Odd that
"kingscanyonresort.com.au" provides inbound links to it from the same
dotted quad.

And "cradlemountainlodge.com.au" and "wrothampark.com.au" at
202.58.54.121 just happen to provide "inbound links", too. I didn't
bother looking at the rest.

All in the same C-block. _ADJACENT NUMBERS_, even!!!!

I would guess that Google has spotted this and has discounted _ALL_
your inbound links.

I'm not keen on cheats at the best of times, but whining cheats?

webmaster@voyages.com.au wrote:

> Hello,
>
> It apprears that our homepage (http://www.voyages.com.au/) has been
> removed from Google search index.
>
> Voyages Hotels & Resorts is a well known australian resort operator
> servicing more than 600,000 guests annually across more than 20
> properties. The site was indexed and was shown in No 1 position for
> "voyages hotels and resorts" or "voyages" keywords up to around 1 month
> ago.
>
> Also, there is a large number of web sites that link to our site.
>
> We would highly appreciate if you could provide us with some response
> to this.


It is strange that you have zero PR on the homepage while still having 214
pages indexed in Google. Many are in the Supplemental Results. Yahoo is
showing 2,424 IBLs, with 1,976 to your homepage. Yahoo has indexed almost
50,000 pages.

Did you ever have PageRank? How old is the site? Did you change anything
significant recently?

Your travel agency's Wikipedia page was also removed, although Yahoo still
has it cached.

Are you sure that the site isn't doing anything black hat?

You might also be having a server/URL issue.

Do you want search engines indexing URLs like this:
http://www.voyages.com.au/corporate/...18&sAlice=true

Example: you have 151 URLs for that identical page indexed by Yahoo.

By server/URL issue, I mean situations like the following where you have
many bad URLs that are not sending 404 errors. You probably have thousands
of different indexed URLs returning the same content:
voyages.com.au/corporate/positions-available/faq/60/?Resort=12
voyages.com.au/corporate/positions-available/news/335/?Resort=12
voyages.com.au/corporate/positions-available/who-we-are/news/18/?Resort=15

Another critical problem is that you are sending a 301 redirect to the home
page for pages that don't exist, when you should be sending a 404 header.

Example--the following nonsense URL should send a 404 Not Found header:
voyages.com.au/932fjdslew

I've seen a similar redirect problem kill a site's rankings before. I would
fix that problem ASAP and hope that the redirect is the main problem.

(My email is in the reply-to field of this post.)

Phil Payne wrote:

>> Also, there is a large number of web sites that link to our site.
>
> And most are completely bogus. The old trick of registering a few
> dozen domain names and having them all point to the main site doesn't
> work any more.

There seem to be a couple of thousand links that point to the site.


> Your voyages.co.au site is at 202.58.54.122. Odd that
> "kingscanyonresort.com.au" provides inbound links to it from the same
> dotted quad.
>
> And "cradlemountainlodge.com.au" and "wrothampark.com.au" at
> 202.58.54.121 just happen to provide "inbound links", too. I didn't
> bother looking at the rest.
>
> All in the same C-block. _ADJACENT NUMBERS_, even!!!!
>
> I would guess that Google has spotted this and has discounted _ALL_
> your inbound links.

It looks like they may have had a couple of dozen resort sites on each IP.
Do you think that is enough to kill all the sites? Or just to penalize
some of them for being duplicate? (not "value-added") The main site seems
to have some real IBLs. Were all of the sites hit by the penalty?

Running all of those sites on the same C-block is not a good idea, but I
think it might be another issue.

Tips wrote:

> (My email is in the reply-to field of this post.)

Sorry, it didn't get attached. It should be attached to this one.