Site: operator and GWT mismatch

[prsntsnh]

On using the site: operator for our site on Google search, I see a large drop in total results. We had around 900,000 pages till yesterday and now I see this number around 350,000!

The funny thing is that on GWT, I see that we have 725,000 pages submitted in sitemaps and around 645,000 of these are indexed! Not sure if this is a blip in Google and related to a huge drop in the structured data that we are also seeing in GWT! In addition, there seems to be a drop in rankings on a number of keywords that we were ranking on as well.

For reference, the site is mycity4kids.com

TIA,

Asif

[JaneCopland]

Hi Asif,

The numbers you see in WMT will be fairly accurate: the numbers for site: searches are rarely accurate, so I wouldn't pay them too much attention. You can usually trust what you see in WMT though.

Cheers,

Jane