Pages Indexed by Google Decreased

[Dezynincodr]

Is anyone noticing that their pages indexed by Google is decreasing? I have seen one decrease by several hundred pages within the last 2 days. I use site:www.mysite.com to check it.

[BigAlReturns]

I'm not working on any sites at the moment, so I can't tell you that I've experienced anything, but I doubt it's an issue relating to anything apart from your site. There haven't been any posts about it in sites I frequent anyway.
You say you check using the site: operator - this will only tell you how many pages are indexed on the specific data centre you are connected to - perhaps you've changed IP and you're now looking at a different data centre?
If you sign up to Google Webmaster Central (especially the Webmaster Tools) you'll get a good picture of not only how many pages you have indexed, but many other valuable stats - incoming links for example are reported immeasurably better than with the link: operator.
Whether or a not a page is indexed is related largely to the page's PR, so are there any reasons why your pages might have lost PR? Have you lost any incoming links, changed internal link structure etc?
Google also has a habit of indexing lots of new pages quickly, then dropping the new pages with low PR - are the pages you've lost new pages or old established ones?
Finally, don't worry too much about this - if you can't find a reason for the pages being dropped then they'll probably be re-indexed reasonably quickly - Google likes to give webmasters a scare every now and again! If you find the problem persisting over several weeks then that's when you need to take some action.

[ryanhellyer]

Actually, there have been many reports of late of web site page rankings plummeting. Google recently updated their algorithm to more harshly penalise web masters who intentionally manipulate their search rankings through the use of reciprocal links, paid links etc.

Unfortunately this drastic change in their algorithm has dropped the page rank of many sites which weren't necessarily manipulating the rankings intentionally. Presumably a corresponding number of people have had their page ranks jump upwards as well, but people don't tend to complain so often about that so there hasn't been much news about it.

[ryanhellyer]

I just re-read your post Dezynincodr. What I was referring to was page rank dropping rather than pages indexed dropping. I guess they could go hand in hand to a certain extent, but I wouldn't expect it if your site only had a handful of pages.

Could you pass on the link so we can take a look? If your site has thousands of pages, then a drop in page rank could cause them to de-index some of them, but if you only have 10, then I doubt it would. I have sites with Page Rank of zero and they've still got all (80+) of their pages indexed. If you pages are buried too deep within your site it cause problems too.


Small changes in the Google algorithm can have huge impacts on these things. Unfortunately we don't have any control over it

[shakir]

yh my site also degreesed i dont know why... m trying to promote it. but dont have much idea to promote it.. if any body have good forum and blogs and other technics plz share with me

[BigAlReturns]

Originally Posted by shakir

yh my site also degreesed i dont know why... m trying to promote it. but dont have much idea to promote it.. if any body have good forum and blogs and other technics plz share with me

Basic promotion for any site is to write good content and get links to it. The ways you can go about getting links are in their thousands, and some will be more or less appropriate for each individual site. If you post a link to your site here I'd be happy to have a look and make some suggestions as to how you could improve rankings.

[digitaldesperad]

I once had this happen to me and then I found out that we had replaced an inner page that was one of the entry point to a lot of links, with a new page (we organized the links in a different way) and google proceeded to drop all the pages linked through this page. Of course after the next deep crawl we able to get back most of them

[pntglobal]

Originally Posted by Dezynincodr

Is anyone noticing that their pages indexed by Google is decreasing? I have seen one decrease by several hundred pages within the last 2 days. I use site:Website Hosting - Mysite.com to check it.

I did not notice anything like this,you may need to work more for your website