Google Removes Thousands of my SMF pages: What's Wrong?

[humbleworld]

I was constantly indexed by Google. There were 18,000 pages indexed by Google, but day by day it seems Google is an angry lion or a hungry tiger that continues to devour the indexed pages.

From 18,000, the indexed pages are now number to 8,000 plus.

What is the correct meta tags for SMF?

Yahoo has made 17,000 plus of indexed pages in my site, but Google is showing brutality in my SMF site.

What's wrong? What will I do? Change the meta tags?

[Ðyєgσv]

Could be that it's removing the inactive pages, so people don't get dead sites on their search results. This is only a guess, so don't take me word by word

[青山 素子]

I was constantly indexed by Google. There were 18,000 pages indexed by Google, but day by day it seems Google is an angry lion or a hungry tiger that continues to devour the indexed pages.

From 18,000, the indexed pages are now number to 8,000 plus.

What is the correct meta tags for SMF?

Yahoo has made 17,000 plus of indexed pages in my site, but Google is showing brutality in my SMF site.

What's wrong? What will I do? Change the meta tags?

META tags barely matter anymore because people abused them in the past. Changing them is like rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic, it doesn't really matter.

Now, how are you determining this drop in pages? Have you used the Google webmaster tools to see if there have been problems with them accessing the site or crawling pages? Did you change anything recently like the URL format?

[karlbenson]

The no. of pages indexed can drop and increase quite widely.

This can be natural.

[humbleworld]

Motoko-Chan,

No, I did not change the URL. The URLs are not pretty. There is that SEOSMF which I was not successful in integrating in my site. All my URLs are the same from the start up to today.

I was able to determine the drop of pages because I check in google the site:mydomain.com everyday. I do it many times in a day to check how Google is indexing me. I also have an account in Google Webmaster and I couldn't find any problems there except minor glitches.

Hi Karl,

I hope to see a raise of no. of pages indexed by Google.

[metallica48423]

Personally i'd contact google as to why this is happening... or at least, find a pattern as to what is dropping off.  It may be simply inactive pages.

I don't see how this could happen if they were indexed and then now they're not unless something was changed

[humbleworld]

BlackMage, what is the e-mail address of google that I can contact with regarding this matter?

[metallica48423]

i don't have that information unfortunately.

I'm sure google has a method to contact them though

[humbleworld]

Thank you, BlackMage.

[motumbo]

Original poster:  what you are experiencing is NOT out of the ordinary.  In fact, it is standard operating procedure for Google.

Google may crawl all of your pages, but unless you have tons of incoming links or a really high pagerank, odds are that Google will not keep most of your pages in its index.  Google drops pages all the time. 

I've gone from 6,000 to 2,000 to 1,300 back up to 2,000 to...  I'm sure you get the idea.

[humbleworld]

From 18,000 to 5,000. Now it's backed to 9,000 plus from 7,000 and it seems that Google is revisiting all my pages with mercy and compassion.