Sign up ×  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 days. In the space of a
week the number of pages has dropped from over 1000 to just over
400. Why might this be? Has anyone else experienced something
similar recently?  share|improve this question  1 Answer 1  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 fro