Our website http://www.efitnessdirect.com has been listed in Google
for the last year or so and still shows up in searches.  I have
recently optimized all of the individual product pages, so they too
would be picked up by the Google spider and be found in detailed
searches.  I created Title, Description, and Keyword meta-tags for
about 20 of these pages.  These 20 pages were indexed within 2
weeks and showed placement on Google searches for keywords that were relevant
to their page content.  However, all of these pages have since been
dropped from the Google directory for over 10 days now.  Please let me
know what has changed that may have caused this and how I can correct the
problem to ensure the inclusion of these product pages in the Google
listings.  Please view an example of one of these pages that have the
meta-tags in the source code at:
http://www.efitnessdirect.com/product-95.html

Thanks in advance and I look forward to your reply.
Andy

Hi Andy,

Firstly, I want to consider that you are using meta tags. In order to
make sure that you are doing what you want them to do, I strongly
recommend taking a look at this useful and insightful article:

http://searchenginewatch.com/webmasters/meta.html

Google has a page already created just for you to get an understanding
of what could possibly be going wrong. The link is given below, and
the section that pertains to you is titled: "My web pages used to be
listed and now they are not"

://www.google.com/webmasters/2.html

I have just conducted the following search and it returns the
homepage, but no other pages (don't worry I've tested this with other
keywords besides fitness that are on other pages):
://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=site%3Awww.efitnessdirect.com+fitness&btnG=Google+Search&meta=

This means that your site is being picked up...

That said, its also worth understanding how the Google Search engine
works so that you can do everything in your power to optimize
visibility. This is done by the PageRank algorithm:

"PageRank relies on the uniquely democratic nature of the web by using
its vast link structure as an indicator of an individual page's value.
In essence, Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote,
by page A, for page B. But, Google looks at more than the sheer volume
of votes, or links a page receives; it also analyzes the page that
casts the vote. Votes cast by pages that are themselves "important"
weigh more heavily and help to make other pages 'important.'

Important, high-quality sites receive a higher PageRank, which Google
remembers each time it conducts a search. Of course, important pages
mean nothing to you if they don't match your query. So, Google
combines PageRank with sophisticated text-matching techniques to find
pages that are both important and relevant to your search. Google goes
far beyond the number of times a term appears on a page and examines
all aspects of the page's content (and the content of the pages
linking to it) to determine if it's a good match for your query."

://www.google.com/technology/index.html

So it is possible that a combination of incorrectly formulated META
tags, no "votes" from other websites to the individual pages is the
cause of your problem. Also remember that the crawler may be in the
process of ranking your site when you search and therefore doesn't
reflect changes in linking or meta tags immediately (its actually a
four week cycle). Lastly, it is completely possible that there could
be a "glitch" with the technology, and if so, Google staff are
probably working away to fix the problem as we speak :)

You may also wanto to consider the paid search solutions Google offers
now or in the future to optimize the results for your site:

://www.google.ca/services/

Lastly, you may try contacting Google directly by email as a last
alternative:
help@google.com


If you have difficulty understanding anything above, please post a
clarification I will clear it up for you.

Cheers and good luck!

answerguru-ga

I can't say for sure, but I have forwarded your question to the google
staff. I did a quick search using site:www.efitnessdirect.com and got
no hits as well - perhaps your site was cleared from the index for
some reason.
  --Maniac

Actually, efitness.com is listed in google.  There are (as of this
morning)38 pages linking to efitness.com, however, only 18 are
different sites.  Your page rank is 5/10.

When you say optimized the product pages, how do you mean?  I looked
at the source for a couple of the product pages and there are no meta
tags listed.

I find google very "up" and "down" for designers. One minute you can
have a site/page coming  close to the top of search results, and the
next day it appears in the third page. At the moment I have a site
that has been dropped completely from google. I can see no reason for
this as previously it had good rankings and good link popularity. It
would be nice for google to give better reasons why a site can be
dropped from its index.