Greetings,
If your site is vanishing from Google, then you have a penalty and Google is trying to tell you something. In my opinion, as soon as you fix it (whatever *it* is) - your pages will return within a few weeks. The trick is figuring out what *it* is.
Here's my guess:
I don't know how much control you have over the code of your blogspot.com site, but I looked at your source code and noticed that you have a lot of formatting that should be put in an external style sheet. I have several blogs and I always customize the template so that the <body> tag and all my original content is as close to the top of the page as humanly possibly. I even use .css to put all the navigation at the bottom of the page's code so that Googlebot does not see duplicate navigation at the top of each of my pages. I try to think like a spider and when that spider visits my sites, it sees original content first, then duplicates like navigation and calendars near the bottom.
Also, what I see as most important is this - in the URL you provided, there is a question mark at the end of the address. I checked the "server header check" on both URLs: (1)
Knife Crime blog - making society safer and (2)
Knife Crime blog - making society safer
Both URLs provide a 200 OK server response, so that means that Google sees two identical copies of your page. It will then penalize and filter them out. This is the link to a good server header check tool that I use often:
Check Server Headers Tool - HTTP Status Codes Checker. Try my experiment for yourself and you will see that each page produces a 200 OK. This can be easily fixed by disallowing certain URLs in your robots.txt file.
Another way to make sure the URLs of your site are clean is this: I setup 301 redirects on all my blogs so that there is ONLY one copy of my main page. Also, the categories of my blogs have a"NOINDEX,FOLLOW" so as to avoid any duplicate content issues with Google. I only want the articles themselves indexed and no duplicate junk. In my opinion, duplicate content is a
SEO killer.
If you were to test my site with and without a www or with an index.php at the end of the address, you will see that it 301 redirects to my domain (with a www and without the index.php). The URLs are clean. This way Google does not see any duplicates and feel the need to filter out my valuable content. Here is my site you can use to test
Health Science News
Just my two cents.
-Stephanie
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