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Hi James,

Thanks for the input.  Yes, the increased traffic we are getting is quality search traffic from Google on good search terms.  However, it appears they have de-indexed many of our pages that do not seem to be of low quality.  We took great measures to avoid duplicate and low-quality content.

Ryan

Hey Jonathan,

robots.txt has not changed and I verified using the "fetch as Google" tool that the un-indexed pages are not being blocked.  We also don't have any dynamic attributes or parameters in the URL.  Everything was fine and getting indexed (I should mention this site is only 6 months  old) and then BAM, indexed pages drop 80% while at the same time traffic goes up.  This is a head scratcher!

Ryan

In my experience low DA links do not hurt as long as the bulk of your links are not coming from them.  There may be some really great sites that are newer and have not built up DA but I'd still like them to link to us.  As long as they're not spammy garbage you should be good.

We run a directory site and noticed about a week ago that Google Webmaster Tools was reporting a huge drop in indexed pages (from around 150,000 down to 30,000).  In the same time, however, our traffic has increased.

Has anyone seen this before or have any ideas on why this could happen?  I have search for technical errors but nothing has changed on our site or our content.

We acquired a health-related blog about a year ago with good domain authority and a pretty strong link profile (TF ~40).  We have been publishing good relevant content in it but it's not really paying dividends and we are considering doing a 301 to our money site, which is focused primarily on senior issues but has a lot of health-related content.

The question is - with the two domains only being loosely related in subject matter, do we stand to harm our main site by redirecting from the other domain?