vBSEO Google/Yahoo Sitemap Remove me from Google?

After the installation of vBSEO Google/Yahoo Sitemap my site gone from Google...

Before, if I always in 2º/3º position of first page in google search (google.pt) for "classicos" (classics in english) and now I don't appear in any search...

In January I install Sitemap generator and optimize robots.txt file and my traffic decrease to 1/3...

Please look to attached files to see:







Robots.txt:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /forum/ajax.php
Disallow: /forum/attachment.php
Disallow: /forum/calendar.php
Disallow: /forum/cron.php
Disallow: /forum/editpost.php
Disallow: /forum/global.php
Disallow: /forum/image.php
Disallow: /forum/faq.php
Disallow: /forum/inlinemod.php
Disallow: /forum/joinrequests.php
Disallow: /forum/login.php
Disallow: /forum/misc.php
Disallow: /forum/moderator.php
Disallow: /forum/newattachment.php
Disallow: /forum/newreply.php
Disallow: /forum/newthread.php
Disallow: /forum/online.php
Disallow: /forum/poll.php
Disallow: /forum/postings.php
Disallow: /forum/printthread.php
Disallow: /forum/private.php
Disallow: /forum/profile.php
Disallow: /forum/register.php
Disallow: /forum/report.php
Disallow: /forum/reputation.php
Disallow: /forum/search.php
Disallow: /forum/sendmessage.php
Disallow: /forum/payments.php
Disallow: /forum/showpost.php
Disallow: /forum/showgroups.php
Disallow: /forum/spiders.php
Disallow: /forum/subscription.php
Disallow: /forum/threadrate.php
Disallow: /forum/usercp.php
Disallow: /forum/usernote.php
Disallow: /forum/admincp/
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Disallow: /forum/includes/
Disallow: /forum/install/
Disallow: /forum/modcp/
Disallow: /forum/customavatars/
Disallow: /forum/xmlrpc.php
Disallow: /forum/archive/
Disallow: /forum/sitemap/
Sitemap: http://www.portalclassicos.com/forum...p_index.xml.gz

Whats wrong?

Thank,
vitoreis

How many different terms were you ranking for? How many do you rank for now?

Did you lose position on all keywords or just "classicos" and perhaps a few others?

Did you change anything else?

Do you have a Google Webmaster Control Panel account? Is that reporting any issues with your site?

Did you experience any downtime?

Originally Posted by Joe Ward

How many different terms were you ranking for? How many do you rank for now?

Really don't know...

Originally Posted by Joe Ward

Did you lose position on all keywords or just "classicos" and perhaps a few others?

all keyworks! Before, when if search for anything related with classic cars we always in 1st-3st position. Now, we just appear if I try my site name (portal classicos) and the result it's the archive (www.portalclassicos.com/forum/archive/index.php). See:
portal classicos - Pesquisa Google
It seems the bot no longer see my site or see just the archive (which curiously is Disallow in robots.txt). But the record of vBSEO Google/Yahoo Sitemap and Google Webmaster indicates successfully daily downloads of sitemap ...

Originally Posted by Joe Ward

Did you change anything else?

No

Originally Posted by Joe Ward

Do you have a Google Webmaster Control Panel account? Is that reporting any issues with your site?

Yes, it's attached in first post.

Originally Posted by Joe Ward

Did you experience any downtime?

Yes, 2 days downtime between 2 and 4 Feb. It's why I wait 1 month to request help...

Well - the downtime is a critical factor. If Google crawled you extensively during that downtime, you could lose out big time.

My recommendation is the following:

• Do you have Google Analytics or another stats program? If not, get one. You need to be able to get detailed information on changes.
• Install vBSEO.
• Switch the flag in your sitemap plugin to indicate that vBSEO is installed.

From there, keep your site online full time. Try to avoid any more disruptions.

Hopefully, your site should not be held back too long from the downtime. It should recover.

after updating vbseo to 3.1 i have the same problem now!

Same thing here - After changing site over to vbulletin/vbseo, site ran great, daily views went from 100 max, to 600-800/day after three months, until one day nothing from google, even the main keyword "wauseon" the site held as number 1 slot for 10 years. Site is banned at google, two requests for reconsideration seem to be ignored. (wauseon.com)

Originally Posted by pgzn

Same thing here - After changing site over to vbulletin/vbseo, site ran great, daily views went from 100 max, to 600-800/day after three months, until one day nothing from google, even the main keyword "wauseon" the site held as number 1 slot for 10 years. Site is banned at google, two requests for reconsideration seem to be ignored. (wauseon.com)

Were you running any non-relevant links Jim? Make any other changes during the 3 month period following vBSEO?

Actually, yes. I suspect it might be the outgoing/incoming pings. All of the outgoing went to useless wordpress blogs that looked like they were set up to scrape content. After noticing the useless reciprocal links, or whatever it is, and not even sure what it did, it didn't look too good to me so I disabled it. I think it was enabled for about two weeks total.

Still waiting for google to reconsider. I submitted one, waited over a month, got rid of vbCMS as a front page and submitted another.

You didn't make any changes to your robots.txt file did you?

No, actually now that I check - there never was a robots.txt file