Q and A: Has my site been dropped by Google?

Dear Kalena...

My site was in the top 5 on google for about 8 different keywords. Two days ago we a uploaded a new sitemap following changes in the site. This site map had errors as pointed out by Google. The errors were then corrected. But now I find that the site does not figure anywhere in the results and if it does, it is on historical data, not from present crawl. Is this a temporary problem because of the erroneous sitemap or has my site been dropped? My account with google sitemaps still shows that over 1500 pages are indexed. My site is www.allindianewspapers.com

Thanks a million

Oliver

Kalena's Answer:

Dear Oliver

I wouldn't worry too much. According to Google's Site Status Wizard, pages from your site are indexed by Google but Google does not yet know about all your site pages. Googlebot last crawled your site on November 1.

The site may have been indexed incorrectly via that problem site map, but provided your HTML code contains links to all your pages and your site map is now up to date, Googlebot should gather all your pages on his next crawl.

You might want to think about dumping that pop-up ad though. Google has taken a stance against home page pop-ups in the past.

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