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Sudden drop in pages (google index)

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  1. 11-25-2005 12:22 PM #1
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    Question Sudden drop in pages (google index)

    Yesterday 18500 pages indexed for the forum domain

    Today 14900 :(

    Didn't do anything that could cause this, only using the vbseo sitemaps instead the hack from vb.org

    Is it normal that the number drops sometimes?
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  2. 11-25-2005 12:32 PM #2
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    Re: Sudden drop in pages (google index)

    It happened to me as well. I went from 14,900 down to 286 before Google came again and started pulling my site maps.

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    Yesterday 18500 pages indexed for the forum domain

    Today 14900 :(

    Didn't do anything that could cause this, only using the vbseo sitemaps instead the hack from vb.org

    Is it normal that the number drops sometimes?
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  3. 11-25-2005 12:35 PM #3
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    Re: Sudden drop in pages (google index)

    Yep, I went from 75k+ down to about 11k. Google just started coming back when I submitted all my sitemaps.
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  4. 11-25-2005 12:50 PM #4
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    Re: Sudden drop in pages (google index)

    The strange thing is, there are now 18 spiders online on my board from google alone and these high numbers are common lately. I'm not sure if they are looking at archive pages vs normal pages for duplicate content...
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  5. 11-25-2005 12:55 PM #5
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    Re: Sudden drop in pages (google index)

    If you're using vbSEO Sitemap and vbSEO 2.2.1+, you can turn on the option to track what the bots are viewing and then you'll see the reports of where they went.
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  6. 11-25-2005 03:39 PM #6
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    Re: Sudden drop in pages (google index)

    Yeah I just noticed that thank you. Well, it's like 1 or 2 views a day in each of the the archive pages and 1,615 in showthread.php....
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  7. 11-26-2005 11:33 AM #7
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    Re: Sudden drop in pages (google index)

    Cool.... it's now bigger than before the drop.

    forums 24100

    home domain 27900

    Looks like the vbseo sitemap is kicking in now
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