I have a site that has over the last week or so been showing fewer and fewer results when doing a site:domain command in google.co.uk (uk targeted site but also checking .com). From 650k down to today <100k.
The strange thing is traffic is on the up. BUT adsense CTR massively down last 2 days (100’s to 10’s).
The only thing changed is i have added the site in 1 other language which has been indexing during same period and is now within the results. The urls are different. This should have increased the no of pages not decreased!
I have noticed that a few other sites that i monitor (other peoples) have had pages drop too from gg index.
Anyone else seeing this? It’s a tad worrying! Is this caffeine cleaning up the index and deeming some of my pages not relevant enough for main index? Is there a secondary index that doesn’t reflect when doing a site:domain search??