Whatever is happening with Google, they are using the wrong pages for search. I have a database of businesses that are separated by name (about 4 years old) and separated by location (about 1 year old). They dropped all the location pages from their indexes so when someone does a search for "philadelphia doctors" it will use a page in database sorted by last name and not the one sorted by location. For example a search for "Abington Pediatricians", it returns this page: http://www.phillyhealth.com/Pediatrics/A.shtml When it should return with this page: http://www.phillyhealth.com/Pediatrics/Abington/ The only thing I can think of is that they dropped all pages with PR0.
I went to Matt Cutt's Blog and he's still on vacation, since late May. Mind you I wouldn't come back if I knew what was going on either. I think it's pathetic how G is handling all this.
My number of pages came back recently. Not sure when, but it dropped from about 600 to 200. Knock wood it stays up.
many of my sites pages are losing fast too. when i look at my stats, lesser and lesser traffic is coming from google. but more traffic from msn and yahoo. only google is removing pages from my site.. other search engine still index as much as possible.
Have you noticed that Google is still indexing new sites quite quickly? Seems that it has only problem with older sites.
Down to 275: This is G o o g l e's cache of http://thelongestlistofthelongeststuffatthelongestdomainnameatlonglast.com/long31.html as retrieved on 9 Aug 2005 10:23:52 GMT Cool, I can celebrate the 1 year anniversary of when this page was cached.
Google changes like the seasons... As long as I can remember it has been that way. The best anyone can really do is make an educated guess.
They must be very proud. If I worked for Google as an unofficial spokesperson I'd take a nice long vacation to celebrate these accomplishments
My educated guess is: google is having a lot of issues right now but when everything settles down, even light grey hat techniques will be contended with.
I got an increase from 45 to 300 indexed pages. I resubmitted my sitemaps yesterday but I am sure it has nothing to do with it. sweet
Btw, birght thougt, image you can't have 1000 pages ranikng well it would mean, you would need to create more pages and others also would have chance to take peace of the big thing ;D
For people who have more than 50% of supplemental results in their total no. of indexed pages: 1. Is the content on supplemental pages unique or worth looking at? 2. Till what year and month is/are such domains registered. I have a strange feeling that Google is keeping their old crawled pages (pages crawled b4 the Big Daddy update) for some sites (and these might be reputed domains which are registered for few more years). These old pages crawled by Google lie under supplemental results and they get deducted as the new crawlers crawl these pages. The non supplemental results are the ones crawled by new Google crawlers. This is just an assumption and hope its true Also if pages from supplemental results are not found by the new crawl then they get removed altogether.
Well, you are lucky, one of my friend's website, had at least 60% traffic from google, for almost 3 days, the website drop to 0% traffic from google. Thats terrible. I saw the website, and i didn't think he did any against the rules thing, and his/her website had G Adse on, still on, hard to believe it, when he/she asking help from me. Poor thing.
lol I enjoyed reading all your comments in this thread. Too bad I could only give you rep for one of them. I agree with all that you have said.
I think that the google staff is going off to vacations to ignore us, also, I dont think his on vacation, I think he just doesnt know how to handle this. Look, when I was a store manager, I told my employees to tell rought clients that im on vacation when they got mad at me, to avoid them. It's only human to do so, at some point, the stress is huge. I understand that you guys have money to make off your websites, but you are dealing with a human being, not a 8-handed machine that can multitask throught its days 24 7. Cut Matt some slack lol. Theres a sad and even sadder side to all of this... Profit.
I have one site with 25,000+ pages but Google has 1,000 pages indexed according to site: then I have a site that as 400 pages but Google has 21,900 pages indexed according to site: Obviously site: is broken, but the pages that aren't coming up in site: must be indexed still because alot of people have said that traffic is the same despite this problem.