Thread: Problem With Google Indexing.

[COLOR="blue"]Hello,
Our eCommerce website had nearly 8000 pages indexed by Google but now its decreasing day by day and coming to 3250 and still its decreasing.
We haven't changed anything to our pages like Title, H1, Adsense, backlinks etc.
But this is being really serious issue here. Could you please suggest why this happened and how can I (reach to my original state ) increase the google indexing ? Your suggestion[SIZE="4"][/SIZE]s would be really great. Thank you.[/COLOR]

As far as the problem goes - IMHO - it is a Universal phenomenon. I have been tracking this "thing" for my sites as well as other big sites.

Most of the times - one of my site has 100 odd indexed pages and sometimes - 3000+ pages. I too don't understand what is going on -- but just hoping that its their new algo ( aka Caffeine) that is causing this pro-longed confusion.
I am the one to wait and Google bot should sort out things themselves as they are doing continuous technology updates.
Keep hope mate

ok - so since November 2009 the site: command has been totally unreliable. You can default the google server to different IP addresses and get totally different numbers, sometimes relating to whether a site is geo targetted to that location, but sometimes it just appears totally random (to me anyway).

A much better method of tracking, is the total amount of unique pages that have received google traffic. Its also a much more important metric anyway.

True MOG

But if you own several sites -- its also quite difficult to monitor several pages out of thousands of pages even with tools -- forget Analytics

1) not true - google analytics works fine for this kind of query - just filter by landing pages with a source of "organic".

2) so what would you rather use, a metric that changes day by day with no good reason? I wouldnt

To be frank - I am not adept with all the aspects of G analytics.
So, I've no authority to talk abt it.

But from a normal webmaster's point of view - site:mydomain.com is what most of us - half-educated guys use.

Lol - it works fine with me so far

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But from a normal webmaster's point of view - site:mydomain.com is what most of us - half-educated guys use.[/QUOTE]

but thats not the best way to do it, as you know, as thats what your original post is questioning

trust me, move away from the site: metric, if you dont it may well backfire in the future!

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trust me, move away from the site: metric, if you dont it may well backfire in the future![/QUOTE]

Lol man - I have already moved far ahead of it -- (moved in Nov.2009) -- thats why it doesn't bother me at all.

Google.bot has been so strange these days --

Check log - they give some message
Check results -- totally - DIFFERENT

So, no more worries

;0

Even if your site is ok google will somehow not show all results. Don't worry about it, that's how Google works. It happens to all people and there's nothing we can do about it. If you search the correct term it will appear though.

Instead, try to check with Yahoo, type in site:domain.com in the search bar. If it has all your pages, then there's a big chance that google has them, Google just won't show them.

It's a long shot but have you made any changes to the master file that could affect the way search engines access the other pages - eg to navigation?

2 years ago the same thing happened to one of our sites and we tracked it down to new software for submenus - 1 by 1 all our pages started getting deindexed. We changed the submenu software and the pages got reindexed.