Help Needed- Sudden drop in website crawl rate.
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Wilson Grant Fisk
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Have you tried to "Fetch as Google" to see if any errors show up?
If the site is static then it won't crawl as often as a dynamic site.
Also check your sitemap is up to date.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q="Fetch+as+Google"
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6066468?hl=en
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=drop+in+crawl+rate
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/48620?hl=en
If the site is static then it won't crawl as often as a dynamic site.
Also check your sitemap is up to date.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q="Fetch+as+Google"
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6066468?hl=en
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=drop+in+crawl+rate
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/48620?hl=en
pulkitseo
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Actually I failed to get answers from anywhere...can creating 53k tests + city pages be reason of this downfall ? I mean they were kind of very thin content pages.
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Wilson Grant Fisk
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When I looked at the site, that did cross my mind, thin content/duplicate content.
Search Console should tell you more.
Rachmaninoff
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That's obviously duplicate content mate. Sooner or later Panda will knock on your door.
pulkitseo
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Yaa we had created 53k pages with combination of test + city pages...just updating meta titles and tags of these pages.When I looked at the site, that did cross my mind, thin content/duplicate content.
Search Console should tell you more.
I literary need some help.
My idea was simple...i wanted to update all meta and then use indexers to index all the pages once the meta tags are updated.
Tnx
pulkitseo
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crawl stats have fallen apart and traffic have come down by almost 4k per day on the website.
can you guide me with what should i do ?
Tnx
AntonTretyakov
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Your content has duplicates.
But I think drop in crawl rate is fine if your content is not updated often.
Did you try to use RSS pings to increase your crawl rate using syndication networks?
But I think drop in crawl rate is fine if your content is not updated often.
Did you try to use RSS pings to increase your crawl rate using syndication networks?
Wilson Grant Fisk
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Mate, I just took a look at your search console dashboard as you requested. You have a manual action and several errors that need to be addressed, also 2 sitemap errors.
Basically every section of search console has one error or another, you need to go through each section and fix the errors then put in a reconsideration request.
Get rid of any duplicate content.
Also Page Speed Insights shows some things you need to take care of:
https://developers.google.com/speed...s&url=https://www.lalpathlabs.com/&tab=mobile
https://developers.google.com/speed...&url=https://www.lalpathlabs.com/&tab=desktop
You should set your preferred domain. Why did you limit the crawl rate?
Read through these too:
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/35769
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/2604824?rd=1#hacked-site
https://support.google.com/webmaste...paign=wnc_651700&utm_content=msg_711102&hl=en
Basically every section of search console has one error or another, you need to go through each section and fix the errors then put in a reconsideration request.
Get rid of any duplicate content.
Also Page Speed Insights shows some things you need to take care of:
https://developers.google.com/speed...s&url=https://www.lalpathlabs.com/&tab=mobile
https://developers.google.com/speed...&url=https://www.lalpathlabs.com/&tab=desktop
You should set your preferred domain. Why did you limit the crawl rate?
Read through these too:
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/35769
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/2604824?rd=1#hacked-site
https://support.google.com/webmaste...paign=wnc_651700&utm_content=msg_711102&hl=en
pulkitseo
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Tnx mate...
found the reason why traffic is going down.
lalpathlabs.com/login.aspx page traffic has suddenly dropped from 3-4k to 2-3 visits...now its not even showing in search results...i got it submitted to webmasters tool but it showed once.
again today i see that its not live on google.
Website bounce rate have increased from 7-8% to 20-30% ...client is really pissed off from us.
found the reason why traffic is going down.
lalpathlabs.com/login.aspx page traffic has suddenly dropped from 3-4k to 2-3 visits...now its not even showing in search results...i got it submitted to webmasters tool but it showed once.
again today i see that its not live on google.
Website bounce rate have increased from 7-8% to 20-30% ...client is really pissed off from us.
Wilson Grant Fisk
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Did you fix all the errors in search console and put in a reconsideration request for the manual action?
GlynnKosky
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Check your index links. and back links status? find out the reason.
Wilson Grant Fisk
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I just checked in search console for you and they removed the manual action, but you still have a few errors to take care of.
pulkitseo
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pulkitseo
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It is login page (https://www.lalpathlabs.com/login.aspx ) and hence never created any backlinks for it.
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Wilson Grant Fisk
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It is still indexed :
pulkitseo
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oops but its still now ranking for dr lal pathlabs login keyword in google..thou it is on bing .It is still indexed :
Tnx