Did many people lose indexed pages over the weekend

[John D]

Hey,
I lost over 10,000 indexed pages over the weekend.

Most of the pages would have been static html detail pages for listings.

Did anyone else suffer a lot?

[John D]

This is really messed up.

Right now google is showing 9580 idexed pages, 2 minutes ago it showed 960!
Before that I did have over 11,000 pages indexed.

I set my browser to offline and hit the back button just to make sure and it did.

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=site%3Awww.alldotnet.com&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

Anyone know whats happening?

[bobby9101]

google has a bunch of servers called datacenters and they were in a flux
dont worry this is very normal

[Kevuk2k]

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EXACTLY the same has happened to me and it has been a week already. Boby re-assured me that there is no problem and its just a glitch. Let's wait and see.

Kev

[John D]

Hopefully it will go back up anyway :)

Mine has gone down even more though, its around 150 indexed right now, its a HUGE drop.

I was reading a blog about google weeding out "spam" and it seems directories were hit very hard, hopefuly this isn't true and its just a temporary problem.

[Jim_Westergren]

From 25K pages to 162

[Brandon Sheley]

mine has been climing from day one.
I need to start reading more blogs about google.. I always see ppl posting good stuff on forums that they read on so and so's blog :?

[anon]

All i know is google is really weird like that. i've been reading around a bit. lots of people complaining about pages indexed. They also go on to say the same thing. one day they have xx,xxx and the next they have xxx.

I think I will start book marking for future reference, so i can give links on what i read.

Rob

[John D]

Im down at just over 100 now...

Jim, is your indexed pages still staying low?

I hope this isn't a permanent thing..

[Jim_Westergren]

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Now up to 11K.

I had an ODP clone on the site and Google has just recently been wiping out many ODP clones and so I thought it was that.

I removed now all my links to the ODP section and will see how it goes.

But it seems like Google has been "attacking" other form of directories as well. AllDotNet does not have an ODP clone.

Frankly, I don't know.

[John D]

This is very bad :(

I still havent gone up...

Anyone know why else google would be doing it?
I don't see any reason to lose so many indexed pages.

It has always gone up and down but normally just for a few days, still not going back to normal this time and its been over a week.

:?

[Jim_Westergren]

Mine is down again to 515.

I have many sites and several more dirs so no major problem.

Hope it get's fixed for you soon John.

[John D]

Thanks Jim.

I think AllDotNet may be up for sale soon though so I would like to get this resolved before then.

[Kevuk2k]

My listings are down to 102 now and this has been declining for the past few weeks ever since I started asking for help with the Google sitemap. I only hope that Google are not penalizing phpld users for submitting duplicate pages? I have been re-assured by David that this woudn't be the case but as far as I can see there is no other reason why Google would be picking on ONLY the phpld pages! My Blog pages are indexed very fast and made me feel paranoid.

I looked at EVERY link that has been indexed (all 100 of them :cry: ) and there are SOME, not many but SOME links to my directory that have been indexed so I'm as lost on this one as George Bush is on finding World Peace :shock: Come on guys lets get our heads together on this and find a solution.

Kev

[topfetch]

has anyone seen any difference here? Its important to keep track of this and I think many people are interested to know.

[anon]

Mine have been steadily growing. Only saw one decrease, but then right back up and really hasn't gone down for over 3 weeks now.

[antonio]

My indexed pages are back but... they are all old pages which has been deleted already :(

[msdesmarais]

Looks like you are down to 336 now...

[msdesmarais]

Are they listed as Supplemental Result? If so, check these pages

http://www.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=12286
http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/article.php/3071371
http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/001067.html



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[David]

I'm seeing a number of larger sites lose pages too.
Whatever they are doing, it seems to be across the board.

[Steven Myers]

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This I have noticed as well with link2geeks.net, I don't think it will be a bad thing for the near future in results to searches, but, they may suprise us.

Like what David just said, it is apparently across the net on every site, that we know of :/

[eli03]

my 11k indexed page became 6, and my 23k+ popularity link became 700+ :(

[David]

Quote from Matt Cutts:
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Make sure you are adding quality links to your directory (don't just wait for submissions). Go out and find some good links to add to your categories.

Also, work on getting some good links coming into your site.

And definitely think twice about using the Reciprocal Link Required option heavily.

[David]

Better read the whole post:
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/indexing-timeline/

Selling a bunch of links in the footer site wide may also be an issue that can lead to a reduction in the number of pages indexed.

[Steven Myers]

I spoke with the VP of ISEDN.com and we had a nice good hour chat about some google happenings and what the indexing will lead to. Apparently, as we all have heard, or most haven't, Google.com is knocking the little guys off the boat and pushing the big guys up.

In other words, those business out there who are leading the engines in visits and have pulled google the numbers are going to take lead on the engines and the little guys will not follow after.

Berry, the VP of ISEDN, "Great guy by the way" has provided me with some info on PR and what his point of view is on what PR is used for and why it's not something to even worry about.

"Googles PR tool is just a show of what the site is close to on it's average a day views, it's also just a view point to give numbers, but won't matter in the long run because that number can go from 7 to 0 in one minute"

Googles Domains Not Catching Fire was sent to me by WebProNews.com and you can read the site if you want to get some information on the Google Finance and how it's not hitting off like they expected, or as planned. Lots of great info, to read on.

http://www1.webpronews.com/2006a/0519.html

I have been watching my old site Link2Geeks.net and followed it's tracks on results for the past 12 hours and it's results hit over 2% on google.com. Earlier today on google.com, Link2Geeks was resulted at 110, a few hours later 114, 4-5 hours later, 131. The numbers are ranking back up as they're cleaning up their directory for a fresh start. "So They Say"

Let me know what you guys think.