Ok, well earlier in the week I was slap happy with all the pages Google had indexed in my site having over 1,000 + pages show up in the site:mydomain.com searches (even tho I had over 4,000 pages in sitemap) and thought that maybe more pages would get indexed as the week went on. Unfortunately as the week progressed and I checked I noticed the # of pages showing up doing site:mydomain.com as 950, then 800... now today it's around 300!! So now I'm wondering wtf is going on with Google. Are they going to reindex more pages eventually? Do I have to resubmit my sitemap to them to maybe jumpstart their bots (even though they get notified everytime my sitemap gets updated)? Also seen my visitor count drop a little but will wait a couple more days before I hit the panic button about that's directly related to this (though I figure it is since much of my 200+ uniques I was getting was directly related to Google searches & not getting that now). Thanks in advance for any jewels of wisdom
never panic... how long has it been at 300 pages? I know quite often when my pages seem to disappear (drastically)... google returns a couple of days later with a mega increase in # of pages indexed. If you keep promoting it... there is no reason for that not to happen to you as well!
this has to be something to do with the merging of supplemental index to the main index that google announce some time back, probably there are still multiple filter tests on and off while the merging is in progress. Guess we need more time to see it stable down.
Well I noticed it recently... so I'm guessin around the past 36 hours. Thing is, it seemed like the # of pages dropped through the week. Didn't have problem before this week since well, this is the first week I have had Google index a lot of pages in my site lol. More pages indexed more problems I guess :\ mmm hmmmmmmm... interesting.