Google Dropping Many Pages

[dcristo]

Is anyone noticing Google dropping many pages of their sites?

I've had one site go from about 30,000 indexed pages to only 500 pages, and I know it's not technical issue or penalty.

Anyone else experiencing this?

[austinandrew]

I'd be curious about the site...if it has 30k indexed pages, isn't some of the content auto generated? Could be a penalty for getting too big too fast.

[dcristo]

I'd be curious about the site...if it has 30k indexed pages, isn't some of the content auto generated? Could be a penalty for getting too big too fast.

No mate, it's an established forum community site.

I've seen many established forums have in excess of 100,000 pages indexed without a problem.

[austinandrew]

I was about to say "unless it's a forum site"

For some reason my DomainNameWire.com site got knocked out of Google a month or two ago. No warning. No fishy business going on at the site. I sent a reinclusion request to Google but haven't heard back. Fortunately, my traffic hasn't gone down (it has actually gone up) because most of the traffic is through RSS feeds.

But it's weird if some of your pages are still indexed but not others. I'm perplexed.

[dcristo]

I was about to say "unless it's a forum site"

For some reason my DomainNameWire.com site got knocked out of Google a month or two ago. No warning. No fishy business going on at the site. I sent a reinclusion request to Google but haven't heard back. Fortunately, my traffic hasn't gone down (it has actually gone up) because most of the traffic is through RSS feeds.

But it's weird if some of your pages are still indexed but not others. I'm perplexed.

Yeh very wierd indeed. There's always some flunctuations with indexed pages, but I've never seen something to this extent. The only possible problem I can forsee is not having enough links going to internal forum pages, so perhaps their has been a bit of a change in algo with regards to this, who knows.

I appreciate your other insights in traffic generation. You have just empowered me to do a few things with RSS Just goes to show how important it is to never be reliant on any one single search engine, aye.