G finished a crawl of my se/dir site about 7 hours ago and now my indexed pages are half what they were. They're coming up as anywhere from 66 to 82 depending on which DC you look at. They were up around 160 yesterday. Could this be an indication that the algo is unhappy with my site/domain for some reason? Except for adding new submissions I haven't changed anything in quite a while. Or could that be it?
That happens all the time with google. It doesn't mean anything. I've had the same thing happen with indexed pages and I've also gone from being ranked #1 to not showing up in the first 1000 results, to back to #1 in a couple of days. I wouldn't do anything based on a single days results.
Granted, I've seen some of the same things, but this is a directory that has, up until now, been able to offer people a way to get indexed in G in a hurry. Two weeks ago I could tell you if you list your site in my dir google will most likely pick it up within 72 hours. I sure can't say that any more! The other problem is for a while this site had over 300 pages indexed and has a PR4. That got me a farily decent rank in the coop. Since it started loosing pages in the index my total rank is half what it was.
Yeah, I'm sure at some point things will stablize one way or another, but I have to tell you, the timing on this sucks! I really need that coop weight right now.