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Our website - ycnonline.com - used to be at the top of the table when it came to searches, particularly for just the key word ‘ycn’ (no surprises), yet only a week or two since the new site went live (using CI, obv), any trace of ycnonline.com has completely vanished.

Has anyone experienced this before, and could anyone have a shot at what the reason could be?

Google had indexed a while bunch of now invalid links, but I thought the majority of these were dealt with using htaccess redirects, so I wouldn’t have thought that’d be the issue.

Secondly,  while my doctype is XHTML 1.0 Transitional, there are a great many non-XHTML compliant tags (simply haven’t had time to tweak them): would this cause any issues with Google?

If it has completely gone i don’t think there is much to worry about. It should come back after google updates again. If it doesn’t then be worried.

With a little more poking around I realised that my 404 wasn’t giving the right headers, and apparently causes issues with crawls. Fingers crossed…

I’ve found Mint to be particularly effective in maintaining an eye on 404s and faulty requests after I changed my domain name on my personal site.  Took less than a week of watching to encounter all the weird inbound links and page access attempts that no longer served a proper page after altering my structure, and adjusting my .htaccess for each.