Pages Getting Deindexed
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My Question Is I have 16 pages on my site that were all indexed until yesterday now there are only 3 indexed. I tried resubmitting my site map, and when i did it was the same result as before 3 pages indexed and 13 pages deindexed.
I was wondering if someone could explain to me why this is happening and what I can do to fix it? Keep in mind my site is almost three months old, and this has happened before but, it fixed itself over time thanks.
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Okay thank you so, much for your great insights I will certainly look into it thanks once again.
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Hi Peter - having a quick look at your backlink profile it would appear that they are all no followed so they are not passing any link juice - essentially worthless in the eyes of the search engines in terms of increasing your domain and page authority. I would really work on building a decent internal link structure - some proper navigation that is the same on each page, with relevant anchor text for your internal menu links. I would also set to work on building up your link profile and start looking for some relevant links that don't have no follows on them so that you start having some link juice passed to your site. If you go about this properly you should find that your page index issues will go away.
Also look for high quality links be careful with blog and forum comments as these are spammy and hold little to no value in terms of links and link juice. Ini the post penguin world I would also be careful not to over do your anchor text from external links.
Hope this helps...
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Thanks for your response Matt this is my back link profile http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/links?site=www.peterrota.com
My traffic has gone down since this happened but, today I checked GWT and 13 of my 16 pages are now reindexed. I have a external links if anything. I need to add something so, if someone on a subpage they can get back to the home page because their is no way of dong that unless they type in my url. The only reason its like that is im working on a logo which when clicked on it will direct back to the main page.
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my link profile is here http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/links?site=www.peterrota.com
the only thing I can think that has happened to cause it is. I blog commented on this one site on one article, and on each page it shows recent comments and it has my link on every page because of that it. So, bascially my site link is on 70 pages or so and growing. With the same anchor text which is "Peter Rota" which I think may be causing the problem even though all these links are no follow
PS I checked GWT today and now 13 of 16 pages have been indexed thanks
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I would say, "I don't care" (to myself, not you!) and work on building authority to the site with links. Give Google a reason to trust each page. Honestly, there are so many reasons this could have happened speculation is just not worth the effort (eg. content duplicated off-site, throughout the site, reused title tags, lack of trust, etc.).
Just curious, what does your link profile look like right now?
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I have seen this happen when sites new sites initially submit a sitemap for a new site most of the pages are indexed. However over time this drops and is usually down to the perceived value of the pages that are no longer indexed. Are these pages thin on content? Do they have any external links pointing to them? Do you have a good internal link structure between all your pages? A new site is more vulnerable to index fluctuations due to factors such as this and the fact that they are likely to have low domain and page authority. I would suggest you look at the factors mentioned above and also make sure you have all the on-page factors covered; making sure they are unique. If no of the above, the other times I have experienced a sudden drop in pages indexed has been when a new enhancement has caused page load to decrease? What has your traffic levels been like since this change – up, down or constant?
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