Indexing falling/search queries the same - concerned
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Hello, I posted abou this a few days ago but didn't really get anywhere and now have new information after looking into it more.
This is my site - http://www.whosjack.org
My page indexing has been falling steadily daily currently from thousands of pages indexed to just a couple of hundred.
My search queries don't seem to be currently affected, I have done crawl tests to see if the site can be crawled and put the site:whosjack.org into Google and had 12,000 results come back when goole has said it has indexed 133 and falling. However all pages indexed on the site:whosjack.org search seem to be stories with just two words in the title?
I am sure I am missing out on traffic here but can't work out what the issue is and how to fix it.
I have no alerts on my dashboard and when I submit sitemaps to webmaster tools I get
15,115 URLs submitted 12,088 URLs indexedwhich cant be bad?Any help/suggestions really appreciated.
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Hi Ryan, yes sorry i think this is my mistake, i didn't mean to lit under product support - I think I ticket the wrong thing. Sorry
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No crawl errors and only a very slight drop in traffic but that doesn't correspond to when the pages were apparently dropping in the indexing.
I am thinking this might be to do with a similar reporting error to the linked content that have all disappeared also.
It's very odd, I am just hoping that my traffic isn't suddenly going to drop accordingly as according to the graph the pages indexed are still going down.
Maybe its a bug thing?
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Hi Lu,
You're still showing 12,00+ indexed urls when I use the site: operator!
Have you seen a drop in traffic?
Are there any crawl errors showing in WMT?
Neil.
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Hey Louise,
Thanks for posting your question!
I just checked out your campaigns and I'm seeing 14,000+ pages crawled, so there are no issues with your site being crawled by us. If you are having trouble seeing all of your pages indexed by search engines, then you will need to reach out to the search engines directly (there is no way for us to know whats going on from the search engine's perspective.)
This isn't really an issue with the project, so you may want to pst in the SEO section to get more responses to your problem.
Best,
Ryan Watson
Business Development Associate | Moz -
Hi Neil,
thanks for answering. I mean that on my Index status my indexed pages have been steadily dropping :
| Total indexed |
| 128 |This is why it all makes no sense ?
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Hi Lu,
When you say "My page indexing has been falling steadily" what do you mean exactly?
Like you, I can see +12,000 pages indexed by Google. And if Webmaster Tools is telling you that you have 12,088 URLs indexed it all looks fine...
Neil.
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