What the heck is going on over at Google?

I have had a site that has had a solid 2500 pges in URL (according to digitalpoint ranking tool) for over a year.

Now all of a sudden my page count is down to 7.

Also I keyword I normally rank 3 for jumps between 3 and 45 every other day. No consistencey.

What is going on?

 

Google will usually reduce the amount of pages you have indexed because of duplicate content,
that's probably why you have less pages indexed.

 

in addiiton to ^, check to see if the links you've seend before are under "repeat the search with the omitted results included.". If they are it is certainly due to duplication.

pr it could be google recalculating the backlinks and/or some sites have omitted your links

 

Yeah I noticed something similar. One of my optimized pages is normally ranked number 17 or so. The one day i was at number four, and i rejoiced. the next day back to 17. i'm working so hard every day to improve ranking of these pages, and it is heart-wrenching when the results bounce around like that.

 

anyway, what do you do to optimized your site?

 

Sometimes, these things might be temporary and the best way to say if any fixed rankings or indexing shifting have been happening is to waif for some days.

 

you can submit all your 2500 site pages in google webmaster tools by creating a sitemap. They will all be counted. However don't submit minor pages.

 

The consistency of your keyword ranking is to be expected if you're targeting a decent keyword - your competition will be doing work to rank for it as well!

 

Have you looked through your logs to see if the bot frequency has changed?

 

maybe there is an update going on!

 

You'd have to submit 3 sitemaps. Google restricts sitemaps to 1000 links each.

 

One week ago i have 2500 links, one day ago 1700 and today 780.
Site didnt lost serp positions but i dont know what is happend?!

 

All my content is original in my forums. I had over 2500 pages according to DPs keyword tool. Now it is down to 7

 

As far as I can see this info iis not correct as per

 

Who really knows? *shrugs* There's another page on Google's site that says that you should split the sitemaps into 100s. I've been having problems with them indexing a small percentage (5% !!!), so I just put them in 100s, instead of one sitemap like I did before. Hopefully, that will help.

By the way, the 1,000 figure is for sitemap indexes, not actually sitemaps.

 

What's your website URL?

 

me, www.mychemistrytutor.com/forums