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Ranking 1st on every search engine, except Google…
Posted by on August 23, 2025 at 12:27 pmHi, I'm looking for some help.
My website for my SaaS is having issues with Google. It ranks first in all other search engines Bing, DuckDuckGo etc. if I search "tufa io".
For Google, a few times when I have pushed an update to the site and we get recrawled, we then rank first for our domain name for a couple of days and then we disappear off the search result (not ranked low, just not ranked at all).
Doing a "site:…" search does appear so we are indexed. There are no Security Issues or Manual Actions on Search Console. We have canonical pages correctly set up. I have audited it and everything seems to be set up correctly. We are releasing regular updates (which are crawled) as well as new blog posts.
We did migrate from an old URL 6 months ago. We have permanent redirects set up and used Google Site migration tool to migrate.
As far as I can tell we are doing everything correctly, Google seems to be a black box with no contact point in terms of it's search functionalities. My only conclusions could be:
- There is a removal request we don't know about affecting our traffic
- A previous owner of our domain had dodgy content and we are penalised
- There is some kind of hidden penalty on Google for our domain.
I find it very odd that we intermittently rank then disappear. Any help is much appreciated. I'm at the point where I'm considering cutting my losses and rebranding to a new domain because this is catastrophic for my business as is.
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Normally – like 80% of the time – you have a backlink that is giving you authority and the other search engiens haven’t zero’d it but Google has.
This may be a penalty or just a zero-result. Zero result means you get 0 pagerank flow – which means you just need to find a clean source of authority.
>As far as I can tell we are doing everything correctly, Google seems to be a black box with no contact point in terms of it’s search functionalitie
PageRank is a blackbox in all the search engines – its just you dont have a problem with the others 🙂
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>(not ranked low, just not ranked at all).
>Doing a “site:…” search does appear so we are indexed.
Sorry, don’t get this: are you indexed or not? It makes all the difference
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I see you first on Google for Tufa IO, assuming your website is futuretools.io
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Ignore any advice here and first setup Google Search Console. That will help answer a lot of questions about what is going on.
It could be a lot of things but GSC will help identify the problem so you can go fix it.
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