Anyone recover yet?

not recovered yet!

With site: command, my pages now showing 100k indexed pages (it was 32k nefore), but my SERPS still suck!

I lost 70% of my visitors!

 

Is anyone noticing the majority of de-indexed pages are ones further down in their sites structure and ones with the weakest PR/weight pointing to them?

E.g.



Pete

 

Yep. That's one of the variables. I'm guessing it's a biggie. I've spent the last few days pointing more links to those internal pages.

Of course that's against google's "guidelines" too. Remember - "build pages for users, not the search engines".

Bwaaaa hahahahaha!

 

Yes that is what I am seeing also all pages 1 click deep are ok the rest are supp.

 

That's why forums dropped big time.
Index = level 1
Forumdisplay = level 2
Topics = level 3

But my other forum saw no changes (18k)

 

I actually got indexed pretty heavily on my big sites last week.

 

Therfore people with many links to their site from pages past the first tier on other websites will be suffering in the rankings at the moment, along with the high chance of losing their own pages past the 1st tier.

Does anyone have anything past the 3rd level that is actually indexed - and if so, does the page have high PR or plenty of links (from sites that are actually indexed by Google at the minute)?

It's probably advisable to only put up new content no further then 2 clicks away (for now..) for it to be indexed on the sites that are effected by this, else it just isn't going to get indexed by what I'm seeing.

Pete

 

One of my sites has increased to having twice as many pages indexed over the course of the past few days. I have seen the opposite of what you are seeing.

 

So now the next question - Is this a mistake by google ("bad data push" ha!) or is this intentional? And if intentional, what's their goal? How would something like this fight spam? It seems to be hitting forums and many other legit sites extremely hard.

 

some people are saying on Webmasterworld that Google may be implementing a micro-SEO filter. I don't know if this is true or not.

I noticed that high ranking (#1, #2) sites in my industry have little or no SEO done on their sites?! (i.e. - 10 and 26 incoming links..)

 

To Quote Matt Cutts:

and..

Is this simply it, or is there more to it in regards to the 'bad data push', like you say.

Pete

 

I don't know. None of it explains the supp results either. So far I have heard nothing from the spin doctors at google about supps. I can understand pages with fewer links being crawled less, we all already knew that. But why supp results for them? And why on such a HUGE scale? Supp results are almost the same as being deindexed. That seems intentional to me.

None of it makes any sense. It's either an intentional move by google or a serious mistake (or both?). Either way they won't say. They also won't tell anyone how to fix it.

 

Same here. Our site has gone from 128 indexed pages to 1,010 in the past 3 days.