[HELP] Had 2500 indexed pages, now only have 400

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carter7984

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I need help bad!

I have a site, and I used to have about 2500+ indexed pages, and for the past 2 months now, I only have 400, it bounces between 400-600... I dont know what happened, but I need to get more pages indexed!

Help please!!

Oh, and thanks in advance

 

Last edited: Apr 14, 2010

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nixnash

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create a sitemap , submit your s
Site map in google webmaster , yahoo explorer , bing...should get your pages indexed...
i am not sure why your site url got deindexed..
try site:yourdomain.com , and see how many pages are indexed...
hit thanks if you find this info helpful..

 

nufaman

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Happens always with new sites. Google goes crazy crawling your site and then just shows a small amount of the pages. Nothing to worry about

 

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carter7984

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@nufaman - Well, the thing is, my site has been around for about a year now I am not sure why it is just doing it now...

@nixnash -- Thank you. I do have a sitemap submitted to Google Webmasters and have submitted it... When I do site:myurl, it shows 420 pages, but on Google Webmasters, under Sitemap, it says 22000 URLs, 2000+ Indexed, (but 2000+ is not showing)

 

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want to learn

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What does "indexed" mean? I know this is a lame question *sorry* but I do not know how to answer this question without asking

 

bbrez1

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want to learn said:

What does "indexed" mean? I know this is a lame question *sorry* but I do not know how to answer this question without asking

Click to expand...

For starters you could google for it and you would find what you are asking. Indexed website is a website that has been crawled by a search engine (example Google), the websites found in google results are these indexed websites.

 

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carter7984

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Will an HTML sitemap make for better indexed pages? I have an XML sitemap, but I was reading somewhere that an HTML sitemap may be good as well... Let me know your thoughts, I have a program trying to spin an HTML sitemap up right now, so I guess either way I will use it...?

 

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nixnash

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• Apr 15, 2010

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Go to google webmaster and check for , any crawling errors...specially in sitemaps...If there are no errors you dont need to change anything...otherwise..google for "create a site map".

If you have more than 1000 pages...Google just shows first 1,000 results...after that you wont get the pages...but type in site:yourdomain and on the right hand side of the search check how many pages you see...if thats the number of pages...nothing is wrong...