: Number of pages in Google web index falling? Accoring to webmasters tools (sitemaps), the number of pages for one of my sites in the Google index has been steadily declining over the last few

@Murray432

I had the same thing happen to a site that was hit by Panda. About a month after the initial traffic drop, the number of reported indexed pages went down to almost zero, but the pages were actually still in the search index. I made incremental improvements to the crawl-ability of the site, and after a few months, the number of reported pages went back up to original levels. There was no way to tell if the improvements affected that number, but overall traffic has improved.

Edit:
The main improvements I made:


Redirected poor quality pages to newer better relevant pages
Fixed broken links
Removed the links to the poor quality pages from the higher quality
pages

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