Pages Dropping Out of Big Daddy Index

[GoogleGuy]

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One thing to bear in mind is that Bigdaddy will have different crawl priorities. That can account for some of it. If you've run into any spam problems in the past, you might also want to do a reinclusion request. Otherwise, please send an email to bostonpubcon2006 at gmail.com with the subject line "crawlpages" (all one word), and I'll ask someone to see if they notice any commonalities.

[Right Reading]

I know that Googlebot is crawling my new and old pages, but Google refuses to update its index and show the new pages, and it claims to know nothing about most of the pages on my site (despite having crawled them).

I have a standard column of navigation links that direct people to different sections of my site. I think this is useful to visitors, and it appears on every page. Does anyone have any insight on navigation elements potentially being viewed as duplicate content?

[dazzlindonna]

I have a standard column of navigation links that direct people to different sections of my site. I think this is useful to visitors, and it appears on every page. Does anyone have any insight on navigation elements potentially being viewed as duplicate content?

All of my sites use this technique, and none of them have dropped pages, or have encountered problems getting pages indexed after being crawled. I don't know what the problem is, but I sincerely doubt that's it.

[Atomic]

Does anyone have any insight on navigation elements potentially being viewed as duplicate content?

Wouldn't this mean that every single website has duplicate content. I could see excessive linking with hundreds of links on a page which is not necessary but a couple dozen nav links should never be an issue.

[Right Reading]

That's reassuring, thanks.

I think I am seeing some improvement today. It just seems to be going very slowly.

[F_Rose]

I am improvement today as well..

In our default DC 72.14.207.104, Google has taken our site out of supplemental results..

Has anyone seen similar changes today?

[Atomic]

Yes, more cleanup. I had one site with supplementals and today they are gone. Things are looking up at last and it's been a real nail biter all the way.

[F_Rose]

Have you pages that dropped out of Google index as well?

[Atomic]

Yes, dozens of sites. Some lost hundreds of thousands of pages. Some lost hundreds. Others lost dozens. All of them have seen the drop reversed and the number of pages has increased.

[F_Rose]

When have you noticed an increase in pages?

This is not hapenning to us yet, wondering if it's our problem our Google's?

[Atomic]

I noticed the increase just a few days ago after a slow drop that took weeks. If you didn't do anything different it's probably Google. This is happening to a lot of people the same way. It's frustrating but I bet things return to normal eventually.

[cbartow]

I added a new meta description to a ton of my pages on one site. I just noticed that most of my supplemental pages now have this new description added to them, but nothing else changes. The titles are old, the content is old, but the description is new.

[Ellio]

Multiple use of the same description must be bad news as far a G is concerned. Multiple anything these days = spam.

[g1smd]

Having the same title or meta description on multiple pages is a killer.

Make sure you avoid doing that.

[Relevancy]

What about similar description and title? Such as:

Learn about cars and more at blahcars.com
Learn about trucks and more at blahcars.com

Where a word or 2 are switched out?

Do you think those are flagged?

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