Hello everyone, I have 3 websites which are seeing a drastic decrease in number of pages in google's index which eventually effecting traffic.This decrease is been seen from past 3months and day by day the number of pages are decreasing drastically.Please help. Note:I am not talking about the pages in main index or supplemental index,I am talking about overall index of a website in google.
how are you checking them? remember google doesnt show all the links for a website when you check there. rather shows some most important ones.
What kind of your site? Blog, Forum, Joomla or normal website. This could be a common for site type like forum. You should try to see if some pages might has being orphaned page, or build links to inner page to help increase page indexed.
Probably for very old pages google decided not to index them. Make some minor changes and re-submit sitemap so Google will re-index them.
thanks for the advice. i have some problem too with squadri21. i will re-submit sitemap and see what will happen then.
also if you visit your compitors more than your own index page they will be higher in rank than you on google
I had pages decreasing for two web sites before it was all because they had some same contents. So maybe check if your sites have any duplication.
This is no way the reason. Lot's of webmasters including me having this headache since the caffeine rolled out. Check if your backlinks are okay.. Also check for duplicate content and pageload speed.
Pages on google goes up and down all the time. There is no need to worry about because those pages will came back to their old position.
Check webmaster tools. It seems that the "site:" operator is reporting erroneous and unreasonably low data. If Google did not spend so much time crawling tweets about people with gas, then maybe GBot would have more time to crawl other pages.