This has to be happening to a lot more people then just me. Google comes by, indexes a few thousand of my pages, then days later drops a few thousand of my pages! If I have a static site that doesn't change much, Google will index my site and a great deal of the pages, then a few months later maybe only 5% of the pages will still be there. With my blog site (in my sig), which is getting approximately 1,000 new content pages added every day, Google is on my site 24 hours a day, yet my Google results are 2,000 less then they were to begin with. I mean what gives here?? Why does Google even bother to index if they're just going to drop the pages days later?
Are you using sitemap.xml to show that you have certain number of pages updated and the total number of pages for a certain site?
yeah man i am using an xml sitemap, i have three sitemaps installed, all with different url's in them: one's a text map, one's an xml map, and one's an rss feed, for a total of 6697 unique URL's. and this is a good example of what i'm talking about. i had only a text map installed, 3050 URL's, which resulted in 12 URL's being indexed. a few days after i submitted the xml map and the site feed, google indexed over 300 URL's. a few days later, google dropped every single one of them and i'm back to 12! i also have my robots.txt set to direct search bots to the rss feed which lists the latest 1,000 additions to the site. i mean, what good is a site map if google doesn't index and keep the URL's?? my site is updated CONSTANTLY and has a PR3, so what's the deal here?