: Google Webmaster: Crawl Stat Increase, but Index status stay flat for days Back in June, my website experienced a significant drop in index status from 73,000 to 36 and my website cannot be

@Jamie184

Okay. I will start with the harsh part of the message followed by the good news.

Just because Google spiders your site does not mean that it will index it.

Harsh huh? But true. Sometimes.

But now for the good news.

Your site, short of a penalty, will be indexed. Once the a page is spidered, it is parsed and then placed into the index. But since your site has been de-listed due to a code error, as you said, it may take a bit longer before your site gets listed in the SERPs. Google is being somewhat cautious. I suspect they are comparing your site now versus before and recalculating any metrics for your site. It is likely that a good sample of your site will be taken before there is any real movement. I suspect that if your site compares well, your site will be indexed rather quickly just as before.

The reason why I say suspect is, I rather believe that Google is going to treat this like a site outage. It will work out I promise. It will take time to re-include your site in the index though and your performance will ramp up over time too. So be patient. It can take a while.

Now that is better!

Also, please understand that Google Webmaster Tools is far from real-time. Most metrics lag 2 days behind and others may lag more. So use it as a guide. But do not place any bets.

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