webdude - 6:42 pm on Oct 29, 2009 (gmt 0)

I don't look at the site command at all, anymore. On one site, the site command in google shows 1950 pages, tools shows 4900 pages, all the datacenters show either 22,000 or 23,000 pages, which is about how many pages there really are. I think the datacenters hold all the data and that data gets filtered down to regular google. Google knows all the pages are there, it just chooses which pages are deemed more important. This has always bugged me in the past until I noticed that a lot of unique phrase searches will show a page that is not part of the 1950 that the site operator returns.

Site is flaky and changes daily. I have been losing pages for the past year with absolutely no change in my google referrals. Started with 9,000 showing in regular google and am now down to 1950.

Could this be a new method of throttling? The only reason I ask is because I see NO changes in my stats for referrals from Google... from my stat server or analytics... same amount of visitors from google searches, same pages hit by google searches, same everything, though the overall monthly visits from all sources has gone from around 60,000 uniques per month to 100,000. This has been going on for the past year, yet I get an average of 3 new users signing up per day. Mmmmmm not sure what that's all about. Google keeps sending me the same stuff every month, yet the overall traffic grew by 40% without any help from G. The 'ol pie chart on my stat server is showing G as a smaller slice every month. For me, Bing has really been picking things up.