latimer - 7:55 pm on Nov 18, 2008 (gmt 0)

Also seeing massive drop in indexed pages over the past few weeks. did the site:searchmysite.com/foldername suggested by wchan07 and this didn't change the numbers in the index here.

I agree, there doesn't seem to be the type of drop in traffic that would be expected for this many pages being missing in the index.

Noticing that when clicking the cache link on the pages in the index, that many of them don't return a cached version. Is this typical? Seems to be quite a lot of them.

One other observation is that we provide template type content pages for a number of independently owned webstores that use the same folder and file formats attached to different domains These pages have always been prety steady in the index for each domain, although don't rank very well except on the sites that have built some inbound links etc.

The crazy thing is that finding these pages in the index for one of the sites through search site:www.sitenumber1.com/folder1 and then clicking on the cache link and seeing that the cache version of some of the pages is showing from www.sitenumber2.com. The cache link url and the version that the cache link land on showing different domains.

Some pages that sre too similar to get filtered out based on duplicate content within a site, but never saw this type of thing before, and wonder if this is just part of the glitch, or we have to make sure that no two sites use the same /folder1/file1.htm addresses in template driven pages. Any thoughts on this appreciated.