For a long time now when I did site:widget.com my site listed about 100,000 results. The website I am talking about has about 5,000 member profiles (subdomains) and 10,000 posts. It are mainly movies with a description.
A few months ago I changed the website a bit to make it more user friendly. For example I added pagination to the frontpage and some other pages. I also added an archive and introduced a search box.
After all these improvements site:widget.com now just shows me only 2,000 results.
Yesterdag I have read the forum and especially the topic about pagination and duplicated content. From this topic it was very unclear for me what to do next.
There were 2 main things to do:
1. Add noindex,follow to the page 2 and the rest
2. Remove pagination and try to make it more accessible via other ways such as filters
Why I think option 1 is not an option:
A while ago I tried noindex,follow for page 2 and the rest for an other website. This action dropped the results for site:widget2.com drastically.
Why I think option 2 is not an option:
I have about 10,000 posts, I have different filters, but these filters also use pagination, because some create lare result sets.
For now I really don't know what to do next? Can someone give some advice what the best way is to go? The "noindex,follow" thing looks like a great option, but it looks like that Google doesn't follow the pagination links, because it doesn't index the oldest posts.
