The Moz Blog   - Posted by to Technical SEO Issues     Birdstep
Database out of Google  You can see from the image that the
single URL was dropped, but a query reveals that in fact, all of
those pages are out of the index. Time for some detective work.
Jane & I spent a few minutes trying to puzzle out if bad links
were pointing in or if the pages were somehow cloaking or
violating TOS. As we were digging through the backlink profile,
we saw that, naturally, the domain was linking to the
subdirectory on most every page. When we viewed the source code
of those pages (for example, the homepage -, we saw something
strange. Below is the tail end of the source code for their
top nav bar:  <li class="menuObject"><a href=""><img
src="/images/menu/Corporate.gif" border="0" alt="Corporate"
/></a></li>     One more point of interest - in searching around
on this issue, I noticed that a Google search for (with the
added period at the end) brought up this result:  Birdstep
database search with trailing period       Do yo