Google drops pagerank while dancing

From: Umesh Gholap <umesh_at_shaadi.com>
Date: Mon 10 Mar 2003 10:11:28 -0600

We have encountered a strange problem;

Theses are the following observations (As on 10 March):

Case 1) when you type this URL in the browser: http://www.shaadi.com/
According to the toolbar PageRank: 3
cache:http://www.shaadi.com/
Does not match any documents.
links:http://www.shaadi.com/
Does not match any documents.
related:http://www.shaadi.com/
Gives weird results.

Case 2) when you type this URL in the browser: http://shaadi.com/
According to the toolbar PageRank: 3
cache:http://shaadi.com/
Shows a page, which was uploaded before 13th Feb.
link:http://shaadi.com/
Does not match any documents.
related:http://shaadi.com/
Gives weird results.

Case 3) when you type this URL in the browser: http://shaadi.com/index.php
According to the toolbar PageRank: 2
cache:http://shaadi.com/index.php
Shows a page, which was uploaded before 13th Feb.
link:http://shaadi.com/index.php
Does not match any documents.
related:http://shaadi.com/index.php
Gives weird results.

Case 4) when you type this URL in the browser:
http://www.shaadi.com/index.php
According to the toolbar PageRank: 6
cache:http://www.shaadi.com/index.php
Shows a snapshot of an affiliate site:
http://www.shaadi.com/index.php3?ptnr=chennaionline
link:http://www.shaadi.com/index.php
Shows 4,390 backward links
related:http://www.shaadi.com/index.php
Gives related sites results.

These all pages lead to the same page that is
http://www.shaadi.com/index.php set as default. And prior to the dance we
had PR of 6 and use to show the snapshot of homepage, which was uploaded on
13th Feb. with all the 4,390+ backward links.

That's not all the DMOZ category and description as gone for all the 4
cases. Where as it use to show in google results (I have checked and we are
listed in DMOZ). Can anyone please but some light into this matter? Is there
any way out? Has some one every come across just a problem and counter it?
If yes in which way?

Regards,
Umesh Gholap
For www.shaadi.com





Received on Mon Mar 10 2003 - 10:11:28 CST