Webpages & Images Index Graph Gone Down Badly in Google Search Console Why?

[wright335]

Hello All,

What is going on with Sitemap Index Status in Google Search Console :-

1. Webpages Submitted - 35000 index showing 21000 whereas previously approx 34500 were index.

2. Images Submitted - 85000 index showing - 11000 whereas previously approx 80000 were index.

Whereas when I search in google site:abcd.com is it showing approx 27000 index for webpages. No message from google for penalty or warning etc.Please help.

[wright335]

Hi Blue Corona,

I didn't did anything. So you mean to say there is no issue from google end as per given link of searchengineland?

Thanks!

[BlueCorona]

Hi there!

I have a few questions for you to get a better idea of the situation. Did you redesign the site? Did you change your hosting company? Did you change who has access to the back-end of the site? Did you canonical any pages?

Any of these could be impacting the changes you're noticing with your indexed pages!

[wright335]

Hi All,

I think problem is going on with google only right? as per this post - http://searchengineland.com/google-says-google-index-status-search-console-report-broken-257111 ?

Thanks!

[wright335]

Hi Andy,

In webmaster search console now figures updated again index ratior increased from 21000 to 30000 and 11000 to 19000.

So do you think it is google issue? as per  this - https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6211453#search_analytics ?

This is happening with me - http://searchengineland.com/bug-google-sitemap-index-counts-drop-across-search-console-reports-249472 but this post is of May 2016.

[wright335]

Hi Andy,

No big change done. Only in June 2016 I moved my site from http to https but till Aug everything. Problem started in Sept month.

Do everyone is facing same issue or I am wrong anywhere?

Thanks!

Wrights

[Andy-Halliday]

Have you made some changes on your website, like adding noindex to the certain sections of your site or have you removed an internal link to a section meaning Google can't access that section. I would investigate firstly what changes have been made on the site.

Might also be worth checking your server logs to see which pages google are crawling - this might also help find out which pages they aren't indexing.

Reason why you might be seeing more pages when you do a site search is because it might take a few days to disappear from search.