Google remove indexing pages each day

[alia89]

Hello Dear,

Google indexing total 1 400 000 my pages,
Last 15 days my number of indexing websites drop each day for 5000 - 10 000,
I not accept any notice in google webmaster tools,

I have:

<link rel="canonical" href="http://www.domain.com" /> maybe this guilty ?

I'm scare for google not remove all my pages, anyone help ?


Thanks,

[Andy Langton]

<link rel="canonical" href="http://www.domain.com" /> maybe this guilty ?

Is it the same URL in all the canonical tags? I.e. do you have <link rel="canonical" href="http://www.domain.com" /> on www.domain.com/page?

[dipper]

1.4 million pages .. there are very few quality sites with 1.4m valuable pages. If any of them are thin pages, affiliate pages, scraped content, or spam pages then there is no need for Google to have them in their index. I suggest looking at the pages which have been deindexed, and questioning why Google might do that.

[Storiale]

Each canonical should point to itself, unless there are pages that should be canonicaled to very similar page (variants). Different Variants of very similar pages may need to be canonicalized. A mistake the company I work for made last year was to create How To Guides into 5-10 different pages instead of having one GREAT How-To Guide. They also did not canonicalize the subsequent pages to the root (main) How-To Guide Page. Now we have 10 thin pages of How-To Guide that either look like duplicates in Title, Meta and Parts of H1 instead of a great How Top Guide with different section using H2s. We will be canonicalizing those soon.

If you canonicalized all pages to the homepage, then I would quickly change that or Google will continue to de-index all the other pages.

Hopefully I didn't misunderstand... If I did, hopefully this helps someone else.

[lucy24]

Last 15 days my number of indexing websites drop each day for 5000 - 10 000

How do you know? That was a perfectly serious question. Don't go by the numbers given in WMT/GSC; those are subject to all kinds of fluctuations and can be anywhere from a few days to several weeks out of date.

I assume you meant "pages" not "sites" ;)

[RedBar]

That is a tiny percentage even if all the pages were quality.

I have many sites that Google does not index all the pages even though they are truly unique.

Google is not as good as you have been led to believe!

[timemachined]

There are several forms of indexed, the full on I'm here baby indexes and supplementary. Do site:domain.com and see the figure, click to the end of the search results, page ten and change the number in the URL to 50 or in your case quintillion and see how many results actually show. The rest are probably supplemental, i.e. G is going to decide before serving them to the searcher and probably on very long snake tail, if at all... I think.

As for pages dropping out and that site:domain.com total going down, check url parameters in webmaster tools. By the by, if you're a website owner with 1.4 million content pages, I'm sure you must have at least one experienced colleague you pay to do SEO of sorts. The only way I'd get 1.4 million pages and have no one working for me is if it's a duplicated thin content affiliate website or an up and coming social network.

I could upload approximately 36 million products to my domain but without users, sensational news coverage, backlinks etc I'd be lucky if more than the site name itself showed for its own position. I'd also need a dedicated server and several thousands of pounds a year as hosting images direct from the retailer would be folly and have no seo effect whatsoever.

The experts on here need more info from you. I'm not an ex spurt. One of my sites with thin content awaiting content but with full on rich content on other pages has maybe 20% indexed pages, rest supplemental, another with all content, has 100% indexed.