Advice on regaining good traffic/google indexing

Discussion in 'Google' started by Mailarky, Apr 24, 2010.

  1. #1
    Hello,

    I put live an archive mailing list website at the beginning of january that reached 110,000 pages in the google index after just 2 months. I thought everything was going fine until this dramatically dropped down to 10,000 pages and continues to fall.

    I released the site with 6 sitemaps and went through directories and forums trying to advertise it only at the beginning of it's life.

    I have read through the forums and have come to the conclusion that i need to create a system that updates my sitemaps more frequently and try and get as many links to the site as i can. Are there any other steps i can take to bring my site back on track to how it was?

    Also.. does anyone know if google blacklists as a spammer/abuser at this point? therefore basically giving no hope to saving the site.

    The site can be found at http://www.mailarky.com

    Thanks in advance for any replies.
     
    Mailarky, Apr 24, 2010 IP
  2. vagrant

    vagrant Peon

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    #2
    your biggest reason for the drop if indexed pages will be lack of back-links no only to the main index, BUT lack of back links to the deeper areas such as the separate mailing list archives. With no back links to the separate mailing list archives google will see no reason to have them in it's index
     
    vagrant, Apr 24, 2010 IP
  3. Sxperm

    Sxperm Notable Member

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    I think your indexed pages might still unstable even you done deep links building toward them. I have experiences similar to many of websites owned by me. Many of them has done a lot of deep links building but still the indexed pages always go up-down with no exact clue until now..
     
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  4. GeorgeKuipers

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    Well, first of all, Google made a principal cut (clearance) for many websites in March-April 2010. So you are not the only one suffered. On my sites I noticed that the cut has touched the pages which are not only lacking external backlinks, but also pages which did not have many internal links from other pages.

    Since beginning of April, I was improving interlinking of my pages, mostly in-content wise, meaning placing internal links in the textual content of indexed pages. The results so far are not fantastic, but the number of indexed pages (site:) are slowly increasing back every day or two.
     
    GeorgeKuipers, Apr 25, 2010 IP
  5. stefffff

    stefffff Active Member

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    try getting more backlinks to your inner pages
     
    stefffff, Apr 25, 2010 IP
  6. Mailarky

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    Thank you for the replies. It seems i will just have to try get external links out there as i am fairly confident i have enough internal links with the structure of the website.

    One thing i did notice since posting was that google had been dropping pages in order of my 6 sitemaps i had uploaded. Something like 200 pages indexed from sitemap 1, 350 from 2... etc... up to 2,300 in sitemap 6.

    So i have created a php script that updates my sitemaps on the fly when google accesses them. Fingers crossed.. hopefully this might help.
     
    Mailarky, Apr 25, 2010 IP