hey peeps, I own couple of sites and few of my older sites - over 5 years old have recently started to drop in google. For example on one of the sites a year ago this time I had over 200,000 pages in google and now down to only 8500... any ideas why ? I have sitemaps and everything and new ones being submitted on weekly basis. Is anyone else experiencing this drop in Google index ?
just look your content of website it should be unique . if your pages are not having unique content that always u will face these type of problems
site is a directory so unique content its not but its general info directory. Our site is one of the oldest one and has pr6 pr7s linking to it. sucks
As the Google has some negative impression on directories, de-indexing may be the result. Try to be unique without accepting the paid submissions.
Did you submit your web to directories through a software? there are chance of penalized when google droping pages