We've been closely following the reports of significant changes in index coverage for some sites, and have been looking into many possible causes. We are confident that participation in Sitemaps is not causing this at all. (http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/snuffle-snuffle/#comment-24878) Some degree of change in index coverage is to be expected, as new sites appear and older sites change.
If you have seen a change in your site's coverage in our index, please post the details here, including site name and changes in coverage. We do look into every report, though we may not have time to respond to them all individually.
I changed the url and used a 301 redirect to the new url and all the old domain pages indexed have disappeared from Google listings. The new url has not been indexed at all.
I have submitted a sitemap and it has been crawled. After submitting the sitemap is when the old domain content was removed.
nomisconnections.co.uk - was almost fully indexed, now down to home page and 29 very old pages listed as Supplemental.
palmviewcyprus.com - was almost fully indexed now down to a handful of pages plus some very old pages listed as Supplemental.
buyabroad.com - has about 400 pages indexed, got totally wiped out last month, built up again to 160 but now falling every day (currently at 64 pages).
toptopiary.co.uk - despite constant work on the site, regular visits from googlebot, can't seem to get pages indexed or exisiting indexed pages updated.
I have more, but this will do to be going on with ;-)
Google Employee wrote: > If you have seen a change in your site's coverage in our index, please > post the details here, including site name and changes in coverage. We > do look into every report, though we may not have time to respond to > them all individually.
This month we have noticed a huge drop in our positions in Google only. We went from being on page 1 & 2 of some of our phrases to page 15 or worse. Sitemaps still reports the higher positions that we saw last moth. Our url is http://www.viewplus.com/
We had some home page content updates last month the most notable being a new product release and a Tutorial Spotlight which pulled a random recently added Tutorial and hightlighted it on the home page. Could the crawler mistakenly view this as some sort of duplicate content? Other than that I have no idea as to why our google positions could have dropped so much for all of our keywords.
I am indeed having problems. A lot of people are having problems. I did some research today, using a search engine that still returns actual Web content and discovered that this has been going on for MONTHS! If Google is listening, Google is deaf. In point of fact, Google is putting people out of business.
Has anything been said during all that time? Not a word. Google has gone from an honest and interesting company to a company interested in one thing: the reports on its own stock. Google is already where the government is trying to take the internet. I, for one, do not wish to go there.
I'm not sure that there is time for a 12-step program for Google. If you're going to stay number one in the search business, if you are even going to survive, you have time for about two steps:
1. Admit that you have a problem. 2. Fix the mess that you have made.
Several of my sites have been reduced to home page only in search results. One to look at is http://www.perfect-vacations.com/ This site has been around for about 5 years and has always been listed. Is there some kind of filter or penalty that has been applied?
Google Employee wrote: > We've been closely following the reports of significant changes in > index coverage for some sites, and have been looking into many possible > causes. We are confident that participation in Sitemaps is not causing > this at all. > (http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/snuffle-snuffle/#comment-24878) Some > degree of change in index coverage is to be expected, as new sites > appear and older sites change.
> If you have seen a change in your site's coverage in our index, please > post the details here, including site name and changes in coverage. We > do look into every report, though we may not have time to respond to > them all individually.
http://www.byzantinesacredart.com/ has been fully indexed by Google since it was created and first submitted (in January 1995) and additional pages were indexed almost immediately. About a month ago it was de-indexed by Google and down to five pages (from around 60). I then created and submitted an .xml sitemap and this seemed to help. In a day or two I was back to 34 pages, then some 15+ old, non-existent pages showed up as supplemental, but a day or two later it went down again to a total of 15, 14 and presently at 11 pages.
I have never used any 'black hat' techniques, I have designed my site for people not for search engines (because, among other things, I still don't know how would I design them for SEs) each page is a valid XHTML strict/CSS and what confuses me most is that the pages that are kept by Google, apart from the index page, seem to be selected completely randomly and not by their content. I mean, if I can have only 12 out of 60 pages listed, I would probably replace 5 or 6 that Google lists by those that have more and better content. The rating (importance) I assigned to each page in my sitemap doesn't seem to have any effect either, since many of the pages I consider important have been de-indexed and some of those I rated as far less important are kept.
Well, I for one like Spam. Being a native of Minnesota, and seeing that it is made here, I have been eating Spam my whole life. I just do not see what Spam has to do with websites. Sometimes I eat Spam for breakfast. The GI's like Spam. Why do the computer people Hate Spam so much? There are starving kids all over the world that would love to have some Spam. I just don't know anymore????????????????????????????????
My submitted site has not been indexed since early January 2006, as far as I can tell all pages adhere to Google's webmaster guidelines. I've recently added a google sitemap, have used the "site reinclusion" option and still no luck, the cached version is this January 2006 version which is no longer current.
Google Employee wrote: > We've been closely following the reports of significant changes in > index coverage for some sites, and have been looking into many possible > causes. We are confident that participation in Sitemaps is not causing > this at all. > (http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/snuffle-snuffle/#comment-24878) Some > degree of change in index coverage is to be expected, as new sites > appear and older sites change.
> If you have seen a change in your site's coverage in our index, please > post the details here, including site name and changes in coverage. We > do look into every report, though we may not have time to respond to > them all individually.
MT: It looks like nascarup.com is still indexed. You did a 301 redirect from it to motorsporttoday.com, correct?
EdCid, kdfrawg: Could you please post the URL of your site(s)?
jeffw, ViewPlus, mred, Lana: Thanks for taking the time to post the details! I've passed them along to some of our engineers who are looking into different possibilities in more detail.
gonzo: While we don't really care for spam at all, I suppose that leaves more of it for people who do like it. :)
We had about all our 40 odd pages indexed but just recently they dropped to 10 and then the day after down to one, the home page, where its been for a few weeks now much the same as many others that have posted here. Tried a re-inclusion request but still nothing... its all very worring for a novice webmaster like myself, most of our pages are vaild and we have read the webmaster guidelines and think we have'nt fallen foul of anything. please, anyone point out if we have?
Google Employee please take a look at our site and sitemap.
I've noticed some changes with my site's indexing since Oct/2005.... new cache/old cache/indexed/not indexed/strange pr's/...and so on. My site http://www.spo98.net was easy to find in google for the term " Iron on Letters " (not iron letters), even back when google was a footnote on search....(LOL, just kidding G-bot), boy times have changed. Anyway, it did show up again in Google search results for the said term again few days ago.... but now it is gone ? again. This www.spot98.net is NOT a spam site.
So i tried the site:thingee..... when i key in site:www.spot98.net, = about 350 pages (alot of old cached suppl. plages)... when i key in www.spot98.net/ (w/slash) = 19 pages. Go ahead and have a look. ...... i'm totally lost folks, and afraid to submit a sitemap during this wacky phase.
How can i help fix this ? .... sorry if this old news... Eh! .... Help !
> If you have seen a change in your site's coverage in our index, please
> post the details here, including site name and changes in coverage. We > do look into every report, though we may not have time to respond to > them all individually.
www.driverseducation.ws Was PR6 and well indexed. Was delisted a week or two ago. I've submitted a reinclusion request a few days ago. Every once in a while, two pages will show up again, but as supplemental results.
www.icfdirect.com One page listed, not the home page. Site has been up for a year or so. Non affiliate related.
"If you have seen a change in your site's coverage in our index, please
post the details here, including site name and changes in coverage. We do look into every report, though we may not have time to respond to them all individually."
Here is my dilemma: I have received a considerable drop in the amount of indexed pages to a mere 366 pages according to site:http://www.mediacavern.com/ or 1470 pages according to site:http://www.mediacavern.com. We have over 8000 urls in our sitemap and the majority of the urls were indexed prior to this problem.
I respectfully ask that you (google employee), take a look at our site (www.mediacavern.com) and sitemap and let me know what is the cause of the deindexing.
It is just so disappointing. I was an early adopter of Google. I liked everything about them. The company just seems to be slowly drifting in the direction of commodity manufacturers and insurance companies. Google is not what they promised to be.
Yes, I did a permanent 301 redirect from nascarup.com to motorsporttoday.com.
I would have to argue that the nascarup.com is still indexed. For the last two days I have done a search for www.nascarup.com and get this result. "Sorry, no information is available for the URL www.nascarup.com", Same result for motorsporttoday.com.
I have also not received any Google search referals to my site for appx. (3) weeks. My site was listed number (1) for the search term "nascar qualifying" and had been for at least two years. Now it does not exist in the top 100 and I am doubtful it is still listed at all. Being one of only three sites online that offer live qualifying updates you would think our listing should remain. If you could, explain to me why this sudden drop off the Google map. I would be willing to change my site if I knew there was something wrong with it, but you can't fix something if you don't know what the problem is. Seemed to be fine for two years!
my site http://www.lyricvault.com had over 10,500 pages indexed on Google. I was getting top ten search results for appropriate keywords. Some of the pages were ranking as high as 3 (via Google toolbar). I made no changes to the site since that time and I have lost all indexed pages except about 7 pages.
The only change I made were my sitemaps I moved from being individual sitemaps of about 200 sitemaps to a handful of sitemap index pages with hundreds of sitemaps within the sitemap index pages.
I use Google Analytics, Google AdSense, Google AdWords, and Google Sitemaps. There were no changes to any of the above accounts other than the one Google Sitemap change listed above.
I appreciate any assistance as this is quite frustrating.
P.S. One non-site related thing is that I submitted an XML file to allthelyrics.com to integrate into their site which resulted in thousands of visitors per day. Around the same time I started losing indexed pages. Those however are only deep links into LyricVault.com and I am in no way associated with the allthelyrics.com site.
I have changed hosts so 64.235.37.49 is no longer valid and the pages no longer exist at this address.
We have set up 301 redirects from non-www to www. We have removed internal links (ie../p2839.html ).
Could you please help? We have cleaned up our site as best we could and removed any bad links we could find. So far the replies we have received from Google are "we're unable to personally respond to your email. We're always working to provide comprehensive, up-to-date online assistance and encourage you to consult our Webmaster Help Center at http://www.google.com/support/webmasters."
Yes, I have in fact noticed a severe drop in indexing new pages, supplementals etc.. Seems to have happened in December 05 shortly after my entire site was copied. ( the idiot left my tracking code in his pages ) so I do have proof. Anyways shortly after, my rankings dropped, getting new pages indexed is like pulling teeth. I decided to sign up for sitemaps..no help there. Caches are way out of date, even though content changes, and pages are crawled ( the few that are ) the content never gets updated anyways, it just shows old descriptions etc...It's a clean site, no gimmicks, ranked very well for four years, down to about 10 uniques a day. And btw, guess who now ranks where I once did? Yeah the same goofball that copied my entire site text, images, templates, and all. =) I have tried contacting G thru various methods ( since I know I have a legit beef, but just keep getting canned respones ) Maybe you can help..
Google Employee wrote: > We've been closely following the reports of significant changes in > index coverage for some sites, and have been looking into many possible > causes. We are confident that participation in Sitemaps is not causing > this at all. > (http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/snuffle-snuffle/#comment-24878) Some > degree of change in index coverage is to be expected, as new sites > appear and older sites change.
> If you have seen a change in your site's coverage in our index, please > post the details here, including site name and changes in coverage. We > do look into every report, though we may not have time to respond to > them all individually.
Everybody, You can track your Google indexation via ehlist. http://ehlist.ca/
BTW, Mr Google employee (or Matt), the problem seems to be hitting sites that I don't think fall into the categories you describe. http://ehlist.ca/show/1957 In fact, this seems to be across the board. Every site I've checked seems to be getting slowly de-indexed. FYI,
Created in March, initially had about 40 pages indexed, then suddenly began to disappear. Now has only the main page indexed. All unique content, no junk. I have a Google sitemap that functions fine, use G Analytics, also use Adwords and Adsense.
Sure hope there's a way to get back into your index.
That Eh List is a nice resource, but not accurate either. It showed that Google saw 0 BackLinks, but clicking on the link Eh List provided showed Google sees 82 BackLinks. Of course Yahoo! seeks 13,200 BackLinks. That is a Yahoo! to Google BackLink ratio of 161 to 1. Website is http://www.USAEyes.org. We are a patient advocacy that certifies Lasik surgeons.
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