Do 'not selected' pages in index stats cause dramatic drop in ranking?
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This happened before a year ago when I had lots of error pages but I have fixed that long ago with 301 redirects.
- I checked my stats in google webmaster tools and have no crawl errors, no configuration errrors and nothing wrong with my html etc. - all looks perfectly healthy
- I applied for reconsideration and was told that all is well with my webiste.
- I had a bit of duplicate content (same 3 pictures on each of my pages) but I have removed that a few weeks ago - before all this happened
- I checked all the webmaster guide-lines in google webmaster tools and nothing appears wrong with my site.
There is only one thing: I have 75 pages indexed but on 'advanced index stats' I see that google crawled a maximum of 660 pages (570 'not selected)'. Every week there are more and more pages that are 'not selected'. I don't no what these pages could be. I do not produce error pages anymore as I did when I was building the website and knew very little.
Does anybody know if these 'not selected' pages are causing a problem? And if yes, how to get rid of them?
Or any other suggestion why this sudden drop may happen?
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