Are your Google indexed pages dropping?

[Animation]

Once upon a time all my pages were indexed by Google. Now it's down to 25%
But the good news is that Yahoo, MSN and other SE's still have nearly all my pages indexed.

On checking a few sites here I see a drop in Google still going on.
Is anyone getting an increase in Google yet? Is there any light at the end of the Google tunnel?
Many SE forums are complaining bitterly about this, many sites beginning to loose their business.

[JustPo]

There's still increasing the number of pages of my site that are indexed... but very, very slowly. Last time I looked, I think it was up to 197.

Oooops! They lost one. 196 now (but still up a few from a week or so ago)

Does the number of indexed pages depend on which G00gle is spitting out the number? Or is there just one standard across-the-G00gle-board index number?

[China Tea]

Don't be shocked but I don't know where to go to find how google is indexing my pages:

is it the site:www.mysite.com search?

please, pretty pretty please, tell me

[rotarysteve]

I'm using google sitemaps to see what is indexed. But, I suppose that, again, it depends on what datacenter I hit. One day I only had 17 pages show up.

At one time with a 47 page site, google had close to 70 pages indexed. It did this by having up to 3, differently dated, cached copies of the same page. Now it seems I'm down to 34 pages, but haven't given it much of a comparision to see what is there. These 34 pages actually include a couple of excel files and a couple of microsoft .doc pages. So, google has trimmed me down by over 50%. For my application, this actually is what I want to happen, as I suspect as our club goes into a new year on July 1st, there may be a redesign. Boiling the site down to the more important pages, and not index the rest. I have a different application than most though.

[JustPo]

Originally Posted by China Tea

I don't know where to go to find how google is indexing my pages:

China Tea... when I use G00gle sitemaps to check "indexed pages in your site" and click on that link, the page opens up with
site:http://(mydomain).com
(use your own domain name) as the G00gle search term. That way, it's still showing 196 pages indexed.. same as last night.

However, I just tried a G00gle search for
site:mydomain.com (without the "http://)
and then it's showed 398 pages indexed!

Curiouser and curiouser!

[China Tea]

Just when I thought I will never get an answer:

That's also what I been using but I did not know that that's what people mean when they say "Google has indexed certain number of pages". Thank you.

In that case mine gets 2630 for both site:shopdrops.com and site:http://shopdrops.com and 1150 for site:http://www.shopdrops.com. Why the differece? I don't know.

My google referral of unique hits is still very low compared to what it used to give me 2 weeks ago.

[webado]

The www and the non www form of a url are considered separately by Google. It doesn't really combine results for them. Thats' because technically speaking they could be different sites, though 99% of the time they refer tot he same site. In rare cases there can actually be 2 different sites , one with www and teh other without www. There is no law that says they have to be the same site and some people take advantage of this I guess - or it's a configuration error on the server that allows that.

[China Tea]

I am giving up on the Google quest for now because it seems that Google favors no one at this point. Even other SEO forums talk about this "fall-out" which started happening 2 weeks ago.

Look, similar index searches I did with MSN gives
12,827 for site:shopdrops.com and
1,489 results containing site:http://www.shopdrops.com and site:www.shopdrops.com .

Stretching the search a little farther to Yahoo (my host) gives me:

2,250 from site:shopdrops.com
1,780 from www.shopdrops.com and 0 from
site:http://www.shopdrops.com

Yahoo indexes my pages like Google does: half-heartedly if either had a heart in the first place. I should be disappointed at how YAHOO indexes my pages for after all I pay Yahoo every month and pay a little percentage for every sale, regardless of whether it referred it or not BUT I don't anymore, because I have totally given up on my relationship with Y.

[rotarysteve]

It's all within the grand scope of marketing.

Let the site stand upon itself..........

[Sharron]

oh wow, according to my google site map info, google has indexed 2 yes 2 of my pages.

the mission control page! and ah I have already forgotten the other one, but it was not the index page.