huge issue.... 100,000 pages not indexing in Google HUGE Traffic decrease since Nov

Hi. I've had a huge traffic decrease starting in November on my site that corresponds with when google webmaster tools show crawling also decreased in November the charts seriously match up. Google webmaster tools shows that 100k pages aren't being found/crawled and only 27 or so are. I have a blog and forum. I am going to either patch my forum or reinstall vbseo right now, which do you suggest? Do you think my problems could be related to the recent exploit notice regarding vbseo? Thank you for your help, eager to find out what my problem is and fix my site.
Does this have anything to do with the exploit?

Sorry can you move this to troubleshooting @ mods?

It's possible that you have been penalized for something. It's really impossible to say. A quick look at your site and i see nothing obviously wrong with it. Try to go back to the date when it all fell apart and see what posts were made that day, what changes were made, etc and try to create a correlation.

I need to really find a way to fix this: Look how my links are! http://www.vbseo.com/attachment.php?...tid=8897&stc=1

Brian I found out what my problem is I am almost sure now I just need to figure out what to do Look at this: I upgraded vbulletin to the last release before the most recent one on 11/23 my traffic dropped 11/24 forward as did the decrease in crawlers. I think this has something to do with the url formats or something because I thought I read that that issue of vb 4. v. had something to do with urls I am going to check but this is the only thing I did.

It was 4.1.8 that I upgraded to. This is definitely pretty sure my problem just not sure what to do to fix it. yet

Originally Posted by rubyguava

I need to really find a way to fix this: Look how my links are! http://www.vbseo.com/attachment.php?...tid=8897&stc=1

none of those are vb urls. I have no idea where those are coming from. In general, the key tab to look at on that screen is the 'in sitemaps' one, which appears to have a low error count.

Originally Posted by rubyguava

Brian I found out what my problem is I am almost sure now I just need to figure out what to do Look at this: I upgraded vbulletin to the last release before the most recent one on 11/23 my traffic dropped 11/24 forward as did the decrease in crawlers. I think this has something to do with the url formats or something because I thought I read that that issue of vb 4. v. had something to do with urls I am going to check but this is the only thing I did.

upgrading vb should not have changed your vbseo urls. The only way to know for sure is to remember what you had.

Originally Posted by rubyguava

It was 4.1.8 that I upgraded to. This is definitely pretty sure my problem just not sure what to do to fix it. yet

I'm not so sure that anything is broken.... Google stuffs params into urls all the time. If those urls doesn't exist in the 404 list, it is correct to 404.

I see, but this is the only thing I did right on 11/23 and I remember looking at my wp stats on 11/24 my traffic views dropped from seriously 6-7k views a day to 1500... and steadily 1500-2500 since...

It's possible you had template edits with duplicate tracking codes for analytics. Upgrading wiped them up when templates were reverted. Or something similar whihc inflated numbers before and these are now the correct numbers.

Did post counts or member sign ups or any other stats in the vb admin panel area change drastically as well? If not, i'd say my above assumption is accurate.

Thanks, however I never looked at analytics for my traffic stats in the forum only my blog in wordpress stats it's not connected and I didn't even have analytics for google installed in a template in the vb software hmm.. I will also contact vb.

Take a look at this:

Also this is my wordpress views stat info: Notice how it matches with the crawl error chart?

So on the 23rd of Nov after I installed my forum upgrade I had an error so I emailed them then I reinstalled it hmm

Hmm.. "vBulletin.com Forum upgraded to vBulletin 4.1.8 FULL VERSION (Ready for Download)

v4.1.8 Download is NOW AVAILABLE

The 4.1.8 release focuses on bug fixes and contains updates to the core vBulletin software.

vBulletin 4.1.8 is a Product of Your Feedback:

Here is a list of the most requested fixes based on your votes:

• "The threads below have not been updated since your last visit" message is not displayed in search results when appropriate"(reported by Andy)
• "No persistent and elegant way to change editor style" (reported by cellarius)
• "ad_showthread_firstpost & ad_footer_end ad locations are no longer present"(reported by djbaxter)
• "Search Performance - too many queries" (reported by ricktas)
• "Use Absolute URLs When Making AJAX Requests" (reported by digitalpoint)

Change log:

Additional Changes since the 4.1.8BETA Release:

• VBIV-13545 Cursor in WYSIWYG editor disappears when using arrow keys to move it
• VBIV-13540 Blog Sub-Domain AJAX Broken and AJAX URLs Not Extensible"

Additional changes:

• includes/class_friendly_url.php

HMM??


Source: https://www.vbulletin.com/forum/show...oad)?p=2233992

I don't see what this has to do with word press?

We support vbseo on the forum only. If you aren't tracking hits to the forum, you don't have any data to back up claims of traffic loss at all. Page crawler stats spike all the time like that. Nothing out of the normal.