Do Orphaned Landing Pages Elicit
I need to do more conclusive testing on this issue, but I want to start a dialog and see if anyone else found anything similar regarding the use of Google Adwords and landing pages.
I set up a PPC campaign using Google Adwords and landing pages. Browsers from Google’s campus hit my site landing pages then clicked through to the sitemap 3 times in two days, apparently to check if the pages were orphaned.
On the third day, I woke up to ZERO page rank across my entire Web site except for my blog. I sent a complaint and explained that what Google (apparently) thought were cloaking pages were legit landing pages. It seems that even “legit” landing pages cause problems with Google because they restored the rest of my site the next day be demoted my home page to PR 2.
I could see no other correlation and I know it wasn’t foolproof as a test, but it seems clear that the landing pages were the issue. I am hoping for an explanation from Google, but so far have had none.
Has this happened to anyone else?
2 comments July 24th, 2006
