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I use site:www.mysite.com/* command to check pages in Google main index and the number is decreasing since the middle of August.
I tried to check many things such as double check if they have nofollow,noindex, check on robots.txt to see if it blocks google from crawling the site but everything was set correctly.
Anyone experiencing the same situation as mine?
Thanks in advance for every comment.
huge increase of supplementals
Wow, thought it was just my sites.
1.5 months old site, no link exchanges or dirty stuff. My only clean site and Google leveled it after outstanding performance for a new site.
One day about 100+ visits (from 5 pages), the 2nd virtually nothing.
Trying to resuscitate it but I don't know! Thinking of changing old supplementaled URLs. But also thinking of waiting a bit more to see what happens.
PS: Scrapers and stolen content performs much better ;) Google is asking for it with its late behaviour.
How can you tell if pages are in supplemental, now the supplemental tag is gone?
Is anyone else seeing pages drop out of both of those site: searches?
The problem is I started changing my internal linking structure around at the end of July to get pages out of supplemental, so it's hard to tell what's going on at this point.
edit:
Nothing shady whatsoever and the site is 6 years old.
[edited by: Tonearm at 8:13 pm (utc) on Aug. 28, 2007]
Wow! Thought it was only affecting newer sites.
PS: 2 threads on same thing : [webmasterworld.com...] .
Traffic seems to be at roughly the same levels, however. If this continues after US Labor Day, I'll dig further into an analysis.
So for you 400 missing pages might not be a big deal but if the missing pages would have been content (those that bring in searchers) you would have had a big problem (I'd say a K.O.).
just checked a competitor's site also - it took a much worse hit than I did, a lot of their forum pages knocked out, I think
I think they are after fresh meat.
In any event, as I said, this trend for pages decreasing in the index is hitting my competitor in a worse way, and their site is dynamic, with most pages being short forum entries.
One interesting fact - despite the drop in indexed pages, I'm getting more traffic overall. Each page of mine belongs in one of about 12 separate directories, with each directory having its own home page, so to speak, providing a link, thumbnail and hand-written description of all the content pages under that section, which could be anywhere from 30 to 60 pages. I think these category indexes may be getting more recognition, rather than the individual pages. If so, it works for me.
Edit:
I ask because it would be good to know what isn't working.
[edited by: Tonearm at 12:43 am (utc) on Aug. 29, 2007]
[edited by: Tonearm at 1:42 am (utc) on Aug. 29, 2007]
If the pages rarely change and contain little or outdated information (Stale) you should expect an eventual drop into the supplemental index.
I don't know about that - maybe in some cases, but I have many pages that have been static for years, and none of them have gone supplemental. But they have unique content and are text heavy - perhaps that keeps them where they should be.
I use site:www.mysite.com ==> to check total pages indexed ==> not much change
Then I use site:www.mysite.com/* ==> to check pages in main index ==> keep decreasing
and I subtract those number and the result (supplemental) is keep increasing and the site is 3.5 year old.
Everything happened overnight on the 8th of August. So, as it happened out of the blue with no previous changes on my behalf it must be something from Google.
So I keep adding new content and pray that Google gives a funk.
On the other hand :
Googlebot last successfully accessed your home page on Aug 9, 2007.
I don't know ...
But Dugg news appear in a matter of minutes in index. I posted a news and came into serps in about 15 minutes or so.
Weird.
But Dugg news appear in a matter of minutes in index. I posted a news and came into serps in about 15 minutes or so.
Actually, this seems to be web-wide. Even Digg.com (and other quickly spidered sites) are updating/ranking much slower than usual. (usually it would take 5-7 minutes for a digg story to be ranking and it would rank higher)
Like Tedster said, if this continues past Labor Day then I would start questioning Goog about what's going on, but right now, it's nothing to worry about as I see it happening to nearly everyone.
We'll see. I'm reserved about this quick turnaround every1 expects.
PS: I didn't mean the pages from digg.com about the news are getting indexed fast. I meant my page (from my site) with the news mentioned on digg.com got indexed (not just crawled) in less then 15 mins. That is really fast from my point of view and experience.
Matt also mentions smth interesting in his /blog/minty-fresh-indexing/ post about much quicker indexing.
with the *
site:www.mysite.com/*
without the *
site:www.mysite.com/
I get VERY different results.
Oh and for the past two days traffic and the phone has been off the hook for us. Today ... crickets chriping. No changes to the site.
So can someone explain the differenct between these two commandswith the *
site:www.mysite.com/*without the *
site:www.mysite.com/I get VERY different results.
All indexed pages from your site:
site:www.mysite.com/
Non-supplemental pages from your site:
site:www.mysite.com/*
Supplemental pages from your site*:
site:www.mysite.com/ -site:www.mysite.com/*
*Strangely, these may not add up.
I have an old site, listed in dmoz, yahoo, and have decent links.
It's a small site with 57 pages. (all pages have been indexed n google for a while). The traffic has been consistent with 150-200 visitors a day.
Recently, the traffic dropped down to 50-100 visitors a day. When I did a site: search in google, the site only has 21 pages listed now.
