An Insight into Google's De-indexing Issue

Hi everyone,

Another site of mine was deindexed today leaving only my main URL as its sole index on Google. It didn't have that many pages indexed but it is frustrating to see this happening. I lose motivation because of this.

Both sites that were de-indexed are wordpress blogs. A search in http://blogsearch.google.com returns all the indexed pages that were once in Google before.

My question to you: Are you using wordpress or another blogging platform and have been de-indexed recently? If this is the case, maybe it's time we move away from wordpress and use another non-blog CMS.

Thanks in advance

 

I have found exactly the opposite. One of my two sites to escape the de-indexing axe contains a Wordpress blog, and continues to be indexed quickly and efficiently (so far). To the extent I had considered adding a WordPress blog to one ot the 4 missing sites to see if it helped it get re-indexed.

Just coincidence either way, I suppose...

 

i'm using wordpress and it's still there. I think google's playing around with their algo for now, so the de-indexing thing happens to some ppl, it'll probably be my turn soon.

 

I've got a wordpress blog (a free wordpress subdomain) that's no longer indexed but it's quite young. There's so much google-de-indexing activity going on at the moment, I think it would be hard to say with any certainty that wordpress blogs are vulnerable.

 

Did you add a description to your header template? I have found that when I removed the description from my wordpress blogs my pages started increasing.
However, it's not just wordpress a lot of sites are facing the same problem. One of my sites also went from a few thousand pages to just the homepage when using the site: query. The strange thing is that during the whole May googlebot has be crawling about 1000 pages per day but none of these pages seem to appear in the index.

 

google is crawling my new site but nothing is showing up. MSN did aswell and nothing is there either.

 

Both of the sites that I have that have experienced de-indexing problems have bounced back slightly recently. Neither use wordpress, or any other common template.

My main suspect at the moment is a ripple effect caused by other sites that have been deindexed, because their PR isn't high enough. One site loses indexed pages because the dupe content filter is tightened, and the PR thresholds for a deep index is raised. Therefore many of the sites it links to lose PR and have pages de-indexed, and so on. If toolbar PR was updated more often then this whole situation would be clearer.

 

I monitor my pages with this tool. http://www.yourcache.com/

I have lost indexed pages steadily for the last month. (from 500 down to 202) But today, for the first time, I see a slight rise- (+6)

It is frustrating, I know, but my fingers are crossed.

With all the discussions/panic/theories about dropped pages, I'd still wait a bit and let the dust settle.

Many are all in the same mess and I'm going to wait a bit, as I assume this is a google screw-up, and most of this will be restored eventually.

 

Yeah - WP has nothing to do with it. Google is broken. My WP blog hit bottem at 200 pages in Google on Monday of last week, but I am back above 500 now. Give it some time and things should right themselves.

Dang it - and I was hoping for some "insight"...

 

hey corinaw, thatz for that link pal

 

i have a peculiar problem at my site muslimmatrimonial.com. Now i see old listings of my site when i search for site:www.muslimmatrimonial.com and rankings have dropped severely.

 

my blog site was indexed by google before the big daddy update, but now all that remains are 2 pages, home page, and 1 of my post. based from observing my site, these 2 pages are the only ones who have external links. others don't have external links, so i think google only indexed pages with external/strong links

 

My blog is de-indexing too from google.
What should i do?

 

WP is not a problem.

 

I dont think this is anything to do with WP - it's happening across multiple sites on multiple platforms. It's a total nightmare to anyone trying to do business on the web!

 

from 42,000 to 40,00 in a week now its at 38,000 for the largest site i own.

 

my wp blog is not getting indexed either though. But I guess that has something to do with the fact that I started it 2 months ago.

Although it is on a three year old domain.

 

I am curious to this as well, one of my sites at one point had over 100k indexed pages now its down to 58

 

I have a site with 2000 pages and 8 of the 9 pages have not existed in over a year, they are not relavent, and they would trigger a duplicate content. It has been like this for about 8 weeks. I submitted to Google's Sitemaps, and I personally think that that might be the problem.