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Thanks EGOL. Makes sense.

Thanks EGOL for explaining. It makes sense.  So Google discovers the urls via sitemap / internal link structure but then forgets about them because nobody reminds Google of them by linking to them.

I do understand that this is a common problem, so what set of tactics has worked so far for you in solving it?

Hi,

I recently started working with two products (one is community driven content), the other is editorial content, but I've seen a strange pattern in both of them.

The Google Index constantly decreases week over week, for at least 1 year. Yes, the decrease increased when the new Mobile version of Google came out, but it was still declining before that.

Has it ever happened to you? How did you find out what was wrong? How did you solve it?

What I want to do is take the sitemap and look for the urls in the index, to first determine which are the missing links. The problem though is that the sitemap is huge (6 M pages). Have you find out a solution on how to deal with such big index changes?

Cheers,

Andrei

Thanks EGOL for explaining. It makes sense.  So Google discovers the urls via sitemap / internal link structure but then forgets about them because nobody reminds Google of them by linking to them.

I do understand that this is a common problem, so what set of tactics has worked so far for you in solving it?