26000 pages lost on July update...

Did you have the same problem before?

[cYbErDaRk]

Hi

Yes, as you see, one of my sites have lost 26000 pages on last google's update, just showing 50 in search results. Website visits have fall from 2000 unique users a day to 1000 or less.

Does someone know if it's possible to do anything?

Regards. Today is a bad day for me (really) :(

[Brett_Tabke]

Condolances. It is very common for a large site to get pruned. We were pruned here from 20k a year ago to what it is now. I've heard the same story as your's from several people.

Did you get penalized (pr0) in toolbar, or was this just a drop from the index?

[rfgdxm1]

Looks to me like his index.htm page is PR6, but the Google Dance is still on.

[cYbErDaRk]

Just, I still have PR6

I've a theory. When you reach a determinate amount of indexed pages (let's say, 20000) Google examines your site, testing wheather if content is possible to be larger or not. In my case, the whole forum were indexed, and, of course, it should grow and grow and grow ... and, finally, Google considers your site is not "interesting" (many PR2-PR1 on the site, very similar Titles, etc), and drops you.

Two "droped" sites of mine had forums indexed... just for a few time. And then, the crash.

But is just a theory (the truth is just "there").

Regards

[vitaplease]

Brett,

is there any reason Google "only" has 4680 pages listed of your forum?

site:www.webmasterworld.com webmasterworld

or am I searching wrongly?

[engine]

This happens to all types of sites, large and small.

If there is no apparent reason for it (eg. you didn't break their rules), you'll get back in, but you'll have to wait for one or two spidering cycles for significant recovery.

Watch your site logs closely - if Googlebot is not crawling your site, then it is some other issue.

[cYbErDaRk]

Update:

I'M HAPYYYYYYYYYYYY :)

www2 and www3 moved to 7k. Not the previous 20k, but still good

Regards