Google Bug Drops Indexed Pages
There are a lot of angry webmasters on the forums who have had most of their indexed pages for some sites removed from the Google index. This has happened to one of my sites, effectively killing it. It went from 600+ indexed pages down to 1 (the main index). That means I’m not getting any search engine traffic from google to those missing pages. I have not checked all my sites but I think that so far this is the only one effected by this issue.
The current speculation is that this is a bug in the latest Google update. With potentially thousands of webmasters effected, you can be sure people are complaining and that google is well aware of the issue. Since traffic is down to sites that many webmasters make money with via AdSense, it is highly likely that Google is losing some money due to this problem. That could very well be the reason Google hasn’t said anything publicly. Their extremely over-inflated stock price could easily nose dive at the slightest hint of uncertainty. I don’t care about their stock since I don’t own any. I just want my traffic and indexed pages back!