Unwanted Google search results of me?

Google Search Engine Results have dropped drastically.

• Around December 6, my website, www.acmeliquids.com, disappeared from the Google web search results listings for the key terms we are optimized to attract, i.e., "Jittery Joe's Coffee" and "Thermos Nissan Mugs and Tumblers" to name a couple. We had enjoyed first page search results with these search terms, and similar search terms for months. At this time, we have all but disappeared from any search results with Google and Yahoo! for these terms among others. Obviously, we want to know what has caused it. Interestingly, when our full URL, www.acmeliquids.com, is entered in the Google search field, it results with a link to a dead URL, www.jitteryjoes.com, a URL parked at Network Solutions - and our former URL before switching to www.acmeliquids.com back in June of 2003. The Google cache for our site includes: (://www.google.com/searchq=cache:O9yNY3MIc5MJ:jitteryjoes.com/+&hl=en&ie=UTF-8) and is, I believe, part of the problem. I can understand our rankings dropping as listings change, but such an abrupt disappearance leads me to believe that something else is happening here. Thank you for any information that can shed light on what we can do to restore our previously held search results. Eric Sales, Acme Liquid Supply

• Answer:

  Greetings, Eric! Since one of the many things that the Googlebot uses to determine "relevance" and "value" of a site is an evaluation of the other sites that link to it, one thing that you can do to make a difference in how your site ranks in Google Search Results is to contact the webmasters or owners of the sites which still contain links or references to jitteryjoes.com and courteously request that they change these references/links to www.acmeliquids.com . Chances are good that if they found the site worth linking to in the first place, they will be willing to do this for you. "jitteryjoes.com" -site:jitteryjoes.com ://www.google.com/search?q=%22jitteryjoes.com%22+-site:jitteryjoes.com&num=100&filter=0 Another thing you can try is to re-submit to Google all the jitteryjoes.com pages that still appear in Google's cache with your old website's information. Hopefully, this will cause the Googlebot to re-index all of these pages and, upon discovering that they no longer exist, this will cause it to remove them from its index. "jitteryjoes.com" site:jitteryjoes.com ://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=%22jitteryjoes.com%22+site%3Ajitteryjoes.com&filter=0 URLs can be submitted to the Googlebot for crawling at ://www.google.com/addurl.html I hope that you find this information helpful -- Best Wishes! ace