Pages drops from 13000 to 13 - traffic stays the same

[Farrukh]

Hi

I have checked that my site listings in google has dropped from 13,000 to 13.

I check it at marketleap.com and also by allinurl:domain.com

Did anyone experience any change?

My stats shows regular traffic, as it nohting has happened but my sites link in google has dropped to 13 only.

Does anyone know what going on or has anyone experienced anything.

There is one thing though, my creditcard had some problem with payment on adwords so it was off. I think the day i started the Adwords campaign again, the listings dropped. I am not sure but it could be the case.

[boby2070]

Welcome to the club, my site which used to have 56 pages and ranked in the top ten for the last 8 weeks or so, suddenly has only 4 pages....

perhaps google servers are feeling bit heady these days... lolz

[tigger]

yep welcome to the club Grrrrrrrr

I was slowly recovering managed to get up to 350 pages on a 700 page site, now over last few days I've started going backwards again so far this week lost 48 pages 303 to go

[tedster]

It's a telling point, think, that Farrukh reports steady traffic - in his case it seems the site: operator results are independent of the regular search results. That;s a lot different (and less worrisome?) than seeing traffic drop and pages not showing up in the regular SERP. So apparently there is this one bug, and then a more severe issue with pages vanishing completely.

[phantombookman]

I too am missing a lot of pages over various sites, traffic is down but not by the same margin.

One interesting thing has emerged for me.
I have a 'new addidtion' column on one sites index page, all new pages are listed on it. Google is putting the new pages in their index but when I add missing pages they are not reincluded.

They cannot have a duplicate content penalty etc so I can only assume G' thinks the page is already in their index.

If so it may be they have the missing pages but cannot/will not deliver them or
They think they have them but have in fact 'lost' them

[akmac]

Why cache a page that users never-or seldom go to? I'm sure that google measures the ctr of organic serps (amongst other things). If there are X pages of your site in the cache, but 80% of your traffic comes from (pick your percentage) of pages-it may make sense for google to purge the non performing pages. Like an AW ad with low ctr.

Just because it was cached once-doesn't mean it deserved to be.

Has anyone had a high traffic page get booted from the cache?

[tigger]

>Why cache a page that users never-or seldom go to?

in that case why not throw books out of a library because no one borrows them! they are offering a service to both webmasters & the public to offer all information not what they think is important or not

Regarding dropped pages & traffic

Yes "some" of my pages where pulling in good traffic and hopefully once G gets its finger out will again

[akmac]

Libraries discard books for many reasons.

In the case of high traffic pages being removed-I'm stumped. Perhaps if the pages are in a hyper-competitive area? However, the trend seems to be that the number of pages removed from the index does not result in a proportionate reduction in traffic. This leads me to believe that in many cases, the pages that are removed are pages that have less/no traffic. (from the serps pages)

On one site, I've seen the cached page count fluctuate between 500-20,000 pages repeatedly in the last 5 months-with very little affect on overall traffic.

I know that this isn't the whole puzzle-but could very well be a piece.