Steph_R - 3:55 pm on May 12, 2006 (gmt 0)

"Sitemaps was working great, I was checking up on it every few days to get my stats with no problem.
All of the sudden i notice in AWstats that google has totally dropped my site.

anyways so i check out sitemaps and it has totally gone bonkers! "

One of the sites I manage has the same problem. Pages are dropped out of the index and sitemaps console reports HTTP problems for URLs that are not even in the xml file.

I suspect that sitemaps is having problems and this is what caused the site to lose pages in G index. The site is 100% white hat and has been triple checked --no spam or any other reason it should get penalized.

Anyone else have sitemaps problems, then pages drop out of index?