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Should I Be Worried?

by Scott Rankin
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My site is about 2.5 months old & has climbed up the rankings quickly. At the peak we have 1,150 pages indexed. 2 weeks later that dropped to around 900. And today it's around 725.

Most rankings have increased over the last month. The really competitive main keyword has stayed nearly the same depending on the day plus or minus 5 results. It's still on page 4.

I am using the "site:domain.com" command to find out. Should I be using something else or am I on the right track here? Should I be worried that pages are being taken out of the index?

Your comments are very welcomed, post them below
#worried
  • Profile picture of the author InitialEffort
    Do you really have 1150+ pages, or do you also have pages, category pages, tag pages etc.
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    • Profile picture of the author Scott Rankin
      Originally Posted by InitialEffort View Post

      Do you really have 1150+ pages, or do you also have pages, category pages, tag pages etc.
      90% of those are real product pages. Originally they had content that our suppliers provided. I knew I had to replace that content with unique content. So I hired a writer to go back & re-write each one by hand.

      10% of those are category, sub-category, & blog post pages. All real pages with real unique content. We don't do tags or fake pages of any kind. It's a clean e-commerce website.

      Originally Posted by yukon View Post

      Maybe the pages are in the google supplemental results?
      Please explain?
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    • Profile picture of the author FrediDoo
      Are you still gaining backlinks? Assuming that your content is unique, the usual cause for results becoming deindexed is lack of PageRank in the site.

      Also, how is your site linked internally?
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  • Profile picture of the author amrish2338
    You should not worry about that try to increse your keyword position in search result
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    • Profile picture of the author Scott Rankin
      Originally Posted by amrish2338 View Post

      You should not worry about that try to increse your keyword position in search result
      Maybe you're right but there must be a reason. Why are these pages being kicked out? :confused:
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  • Profile picture of the author Scott Rankin
    GOOGLE IS CURRENTLY BROKEN, CONFIRMED:

    Is Google Broken? Sites Big & Small Seeing Indexing Problems
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    • Profile picture of the author orvn
      Originally Posted by Scott Rankin View Post

      Yeah, I can attest to this, witnessed it a few hours ago.
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  • Profile picture of the author jay_vasdewani
    WE had huge hit from 50000 pages to 8000 page now.

    Don't know why they removed from index, each page is different, no duplicates etc.
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  • Profile picture of the author Davioli
    You shouldn't be alarmed.
    Using search to check indexed pages will continue showing a small percentage of actual indexed pages.
    Log in to webmaster tools and you'll see the correct number of indexed pages.
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