There has been a lot of craziness going on past couple days with people complaining about their sites disappearing from their normal keyword search results. I bet I've replied to 4 or 5 people about it already and said the exact same thing to all so figured I would just write a quick post about it. The main point and thing I've said, as probably most of you know now since the sites seemed to have magically appeared again for everyone I've heard from so far, is don't panic!

This has happened to me over the past year or so on almost every site I have created. The site disappears, but still is indexed, but nowhere to be found for the key phrases like normal. Then all of a sudden a few days later it is back just like it was and where it was. (one of my sites disappeared for about 3 weeks like this and came back all of a sudden. You can imagine I was really getting concerned about it, but again all was good)

Anyway, its not a sandbox, it's not a penalty, who knows what it is!!! besides Google doing its normal crazy things. The crazy thing is.....is it happened to so many of us all at the same time which is new to me and it also happened to 4 of my 6 sites all at the same time which has never happened before and as of yesterday they are all back and fine in the same spots on page 1 like they were. Sometimes my sites even came back at higher position/ranking than they were prior! Lol so you might be cursing Google when it happens, but loving them when your site comes back.

Hope everyone else's sites came back ok and if it happens again you'll know it's more than likely just Google being Google.