Here's what happened. My main page was cached about 2 weeks ago (new website) then after a few days of promotion my other pages were indexed (In total 11 pages). I've added a 12th page and figured it was about time I setup a sitemap and submitted via google webmaster tools. Late last night the spider downloaded my sitemap successfully and removed all of them but the homepage. Even worse it reverted back to the initial cache which took place on day one which contains barely any information, a different title, etc, etc I've validated all of my pages via W3 and every page comes up successful (if that matters). Anyone know the cause?
It shouldn't take four weeks to get a website listed especially only 11-12 main pages. I've indexed my other websites pages within a week (MAX). The only difference this time is I used a sitemap whereas in every other instance I haven't.
For new sites, there is lot of fluctuations in indexing/ranking. I have multiple sites: I have submitted sitemaps for all of them. One site has all pages being indexed from very early days of its launch [this site do not have much backlinks]: on the other hand, another site of mine has a variable number of index pages. Index pages go up and down all of the time. I think if a site have a solid/trusted backlink then more of its pages will get index and will index faster.
I do have the trusted backlinks which is whats bothering me. It's the fact that it was listed then entirely removed which has peaked my interest. I've never seen that happen unless they feel your site should be blacklisted or manually reviewed.
I think you have prolem with robots.txt check your robot. here path : yourdomain.com/robots.txt It should be: User-agent: * Disallow: Code (markup): If you don't have robts.txt, create your own robots.txt
I never had a sitemap causing a website keyword to lose its ranking. Do you have duplicated content on your website? I have seen my ranking fluctuate when I'm doing SEO work as Google is probably trying to figure out where my website should be rank for that keywords. This may be what's happening with your site. Just keep doing the promotion you're doing and SEO work.
I'll give it a few more weeks to see where and how often the bot is accessing my site. I get the feeling the bot is using the old main page links to crawl pages that don't exist anymore. I'm hoping that once they cache a new main page it will then begin to relist all of the pages it previously had indexed.