Is Google cleaning their index?

One site went up in the results, 2 other sites dropped by 90%.
Traffic to my sites dropped by 75%.
This sucks.

 

That's why it's best to not totally depend on major search engine traffic especially from Google. If your traffic drops by 75% then your earnings will probably also have a large drop and if you rely on this income because it is your only source of revenue then you could be in some trouble.

 

If you can see your site listed when you use the site:yourdomain.com query, then your site is NOT banned. The site: query tells you how many pages are in Google's index. If that number is greater than zero, obviously you're not banned.

 

I took a huge hammering today on one site ... indexed pages went from 128K to 93K overnight ... ooooouch!!!

 

I think that was a misspell Minstrel..

You have to be out of your mind to really say this in a SEO Forum, where you already have 300 posts.

 

Some days, getting hammered is the only thing that makes sense.

I hope so, E. Even so, it needed correcting for others who may read it.

 

Welll here's to getting hammered .....

 

Is that the Santa you called for the kids at home last year ?

Cruel kids ...

 

The kids swapped milk and cookies for a bottle of whiskey!

 

Hi,

I apologise for that. It should have been "can't".

It was a miss spelling. That's one problem when I touch type around 70 words per minute.

Yeah, If you can't see your site when using site:yourdomainame.com then your site is most likely banned.

 

Assuming it isn't a new site that hasn't yet been indexed, of course.

If it was once indexed, and now the site: query shows no pages:

1. it may be banned; or

2. you may have done something to block Google from spidering it - check your robots.txt file, make sure you haven't added in a robots noindex, nofollow meta tag somewhere, and check for errors in your HTML code that may prevent spidering.

 

I have a small site, which is 1 year old, of mainly html pages. I have gone from around 200 indexed pages, which are unique, to just 80. It's not just a case of them not being reported, but they have vanished from the index, and the traffic with them.

It's not hurting me too much, but it's very frustrating to lose pages which are useful to others.

 

How do you know that?

 

I had the same problem. Pages indexed dropped from 100k to 200 . Did a bit research, it seems Google does not like dmoz clones. I removed it and back to 30k now. Better if not best I am happy. Try removing the Dmoz lisitings if you have any and see it it helps.

 

I previously made this suggestion:

While the numbers returned by the site query seem to fluctuate almost daily, today I was exploring this a little further and got what I think is some some additional support for this hypothesis:

If I use the site:forum.psychlinks.ca query, I get this:

However, using the sitesychlinks.ca query, I get this:

That is still considerably less than the number returned a couple of months ago (less than 25% actually) but what is noteworthy is that those 8110 pages include a lot more than 7 pages from the forum.

 

By entering the url of the missing page into google.

For your site, entering, www.psychlinks.ca/pages/index1.htm for example, into the google search box shows that the page is indexed. When I do that for certain individual pages on my site, some are no longer indexed.

I'm surprised you didn't realise you could check individual pages.

 

What makes you think I didn't know that? I was asking for clarification on how you came to your conclusion.

So you're saying that you've individually checked all 120 pages and they are all gone? And if you check again tomorrow or the day after, are they still gone? I'm seeing what Google reports fluctuating wildly from day to day. Today, the uber-domain is shoiwng > 8100 pages. Yesterday, it was showing only a few hundred.

Also see my post just above.

 

Dude, i don't want to be mean or something, but would you think like maybe in your evolved stage of drunkness, that a 10.000 posts guy, in a SEO Forum, doesn't know a first day lesson in SEO ?

Uhm .. People just don't think straight these days. They jump so easy to conclusions.

I can actually agree with what Minstrel said until now, and he has arissen a number of issues which still remain unanswered.

PS: I am not defending Minstrel actually, because most of the time he is just an ass. A cruel, loving, ass, actually.

 

Sorry I didn't mean it to seem patronizing.

Yes, I have checked all the pages and around 120 have completely gone. Of the 80 left some have also turned supplemental. The 120 which have vanished all had different titles, and different paragraph text, though had the same disclaimer text at the bottom.

I've gradually been losing pages, from around 200, down to 98, then 90, 85 and now just 80

I have another html site which has lost just a few pages, and another one which has all turned supplemental except for the home page.

 

I have the same exact problem, and i kept posting about it.

Can you tell me your url please ? Let me have a look at it. Maybe i can discover what the heck is happening to some of my websites too.

Firstly, tell me this :

1. Did you had (have) incoming sitewide links, at the moment you noticed the present reduction in pages ?
2. Did you had (have) outgoing sitewide links, at the moment you noticed the present reduction in pages ?
3. Did you had duplicate pages ? (like for example an article website, and for each article, beside the html version, a "Printable" or a "Pdf" version, that were indexed as well ?)