Why did Google stop indexing my site?
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Google used to crawl my site every few minutes.
Suddenly it stopped and the last week it indexed 3 pages out of thousands.
What could cause this to happen and how can I solve this problem?
Thanks!
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It turned out that it was caused by Google Page Speed. They told me that it was fine and nothing to worry about but I just disabled it due to server issues and I guess that is what made the code disappear...
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Maybe Jill removed it yet at your suggestion
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it looks like you figured out what that weird code was? I don't see it in the source code anymore.
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you can fetch google in WMT and googlebot will recrawl
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I'm sure that you checked yet:
-No important directory is blocked from robots.txt
-The robots.txt detected through Google Webmaster Tools match with the actual file robots.txt (i recently haved a trouble with that)
-New pages are well linked from home
-New pages are in sitemaps.xml with good priority and a dayly update
Share the content imediately with Google plus, it helps!
I cannot be sure, but maybe if Google was much time crawling your site without finding changes, decided to crawl it less frequently
Good Luck!
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It is indexed but the problem is that most of the indexed pages are outdated and the new ones haven't been crawled.
I would LOVE to know whats up with all of that code. I have been trying to uncover that with no success.... I have no idea where it comes from but also no idea how to find out
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It's indexed in Google.com
you should geotarget for www.google.co.il
what's up with all of this code that goes on forever in your source
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My link profile contains natural links only. I have never asked for a link or even exchanged links with anyone.
About 4 years ago my site was hacked and the hackers linked to the content that they inserted in my forum. I have since erased the forum and disavowed the links even though over the years the spammy sites stopped linking to me anyway since their content was removed. This was a long time ago anyway so I don't think it is relevant.
I don't have that many links although the ones I have all linked to me because I have unique content.
My bounce rate has always been around 1%. My users seem to enjoy my content and spend time on my site. My rankings also went down very much since Google stopped crawling. I can't work out why.
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I have a lot of 404 errors which appear in Google Webmaster Tools but don't appear on my site anymore.
About a month ago I had a problem with Wordpress permalinks and for about 10 hours my posts were crawled under a slightly different URL. During that time many posts were crawled and therefore existed under 2 different URLs. I have since fixed the problem but since Google hasn't really come back to crawl so the errors still appear.
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Streamline Metrics is correct. Add it to webmaster tools and see what they say. Also, how is your link profile? Any spammy links?
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Have you claimed the site in Google Webmaster Tools? If not, I suggest doing so at http://www.google.com/webmasters and then you will be able to see if Google has encountered any errors lately and/or you can change the crawl rate if necessary.
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