Drop in indexed pages!
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Hi everybody! I've been working on http://thewilddeckcompany.co.uk/ for a little while now. Until recently, everything was great - good rankings for the key terms of 'bird hides' and 'pond dipping platforms'.
However, rankings have tanked over the past few days. I can't point my finger at it yet, but a site:thewilddeckcompany.co.uk search shows only three pages have been indexed. There's only 10 on the site, and it was fine beforehand.
Any advice would be much appreciated,
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I've had a little look through the website and the link profile and everything seems ok from that end. None of the pages are set to 'noindex' and the robots.txt isn't blocking any of the search bots.
Usually I would ask if there has been an unnatural links warning come through Webmaster Tools but there are only a few links pointing to the site (all of which go to the homepage), so I doubt this is the case. What I would recommend is that you start building some links to the deeper pages on the website - also, set up a blog or something similar and start placing some new pages on the website. Once you build some new content a little more reguarly, Google will start indexing the site more frequently. This should clear up the issue a lot quicker.
I would put a bit more of a focus into building some deep links on the site though. Once you've done that I'm sure you will start seeing some results.
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