Is Google cleaning their index?

I really need my site re-indexed as well.. hope it will happen soon

 

From WMW forum:

For those who have site problems and don't read WMW forums.

 

Looks like some of my pages are returning on the google serps as supplementary results... hmmm...

Has anyone noticed any new changes since yesterday?

 

I'm seeing number of reported backlinks increasing across the board. Little or no change in pages indexed, though. Not yet anyway.

 

Say what ? Like in an IBL update ? or what ?

 

I mean on the D-P keyword tracker.

 

Yeah but those are trough the API.. And the API can sometimes screw the real situation

 

I won't argue that. I was mainly responding to mark1's question about pages returning into the index. I'm not seeing that. Just the increased backlinks on the DP tool.

 

Some of my sites, had like +10.000 pages indexed.

 

Minstrel, to better prove your theory :

site:directory.xperts.ro

and

site:directory.xperts.ro inurl:dmoz

Now, how can that be, except .... Google not showing everything.

 

Fascinating.

 

Adding inurl:dmoz just appears to have the effect of throwing all the supplementals into the count.

As I say, to prove this theory we need a clear example of a page which:
a) doesn't appear on a site: search
b) is demonstrably in the main index, i.e. appears in the search results for 'this text is unique on this page'.

 

Perhaps. But why would it do that? In the past, the site: query showed both regular and supplemental listings. Something seems to have changed or to be changing. Adding in the "inurl:dmoz" part would have shown fewer pages, not more, in the past.

 

I totally agree.

 

95% of pages of my site are vanished from google.

 

My site dropped pr too... and google seem to see only 2 backlinks... don't know why is this... yahoo sees over 60...

 

My site pages got dropped from 11000 to mere 1000 pages. The no. of backlinks remained same as well as the PR. Traffic was little affected, thanks to my yahoo rankings.

 

All of my forums dropped from over 30,000 to under 100. I sure hope they go back up some.

 

hi everyone,

same thing happened to me. lost 99% of all pages on my site. anyone discovered a pattern? my site used sitemaps successfully at some point (deleted the map since then after the drop, but no increases in indexing). i had one linkexchange connection. using adsense. added a lot of pages at the time just prior to the drop. the site is not spammy. basically a review site with lots of affiliate links.

my guess, in any case, is that someone at google is gonna lose their job, since significant number of sites with these indexed page-loses seem to be using adsense and that foregone revenue is exactly the money google will not be getting. my earnings have been halved.

hopefully business(!) press will get a whiff of this and make some waves, cause the silence from a public company named google is, you know... i bet the shareholders want to know what the heck is happening. i think i gonna go on yahoo finance google board and spread the word. lol. wonder how fast we will revert to the index from a few months back. well, hopefully.

cheers.

 

Lost a lot of pages, coming back now, but the interesting thing I have noticed is that some of the pages that are coming back are supps and were spidered up to 2 years ago. The pages still exists on my site but the layout has changed, If I go the cached copy then it's a very old version of the page.

Very weird.