Google Indexing
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Hi
We have roughly 8500 pages in our website. Google had indexed almost 6000 of them, but now suddenly I see that the pages indexed has gone to 45.
Any possible explanations why this might be happening and what can be done for it.
Thanks,
Priyam
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Hi,
I am also facing a similar issue.
My website is https://infinitelabz.com. When I try to crawl and index the site it is saying not able to crawl.
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check the robots.txt for no-follow designations?
also, is your hosting reliable? i have had websites go down, which would cause crawler errors from reporting, resulting in a poor index.
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I have done that all already actually and there is nothing unusual. So it's confusing
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I have tried that and it fetches them correctly.
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The only time it's ever really hit me hard and fast like that is on Tumblr. with adult content. Once they find out about it, they flip the robot.txt hide switch and you're burnt lol.
But ya like taryn suggested go into Google webmasters and have a look around the property and all the options starting from the messages/mailbox thing within webmasters.
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Have you checked your traffic and ranks? This could just be an issue with index reporting. If traffic and ranks are stable then no need to worry.
If however traffic has declined, there is certainly an issue, check:
- have you received a penalty
- use site: command to see what URLs are actually showing Google index
- fetch and render to see how Google see's your pages
- run a crawl of your site using Screaming Frog or other such tool
- is there issue's with 404 / 500 or No response pages
- has dev deployed anyting like moving to https without applying 301 redirects
I think first is to determine, if this is an actual issue or not. Then if it is, run some serious analysis to determine cause and apply a fix.
Many thanks,
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Hi,
Have you tried to fetch your pages too see if Google can read them?
See: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6066468?hl=en
It is a good place to start.
BTW: I have tried something similar with a home built CMS that Google for some reason didn't like
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