Index dropped 20 pages at once since yesterday

[Rosebankcollege]

did you also verify your site under bing/yahoo webmaster tools. if not yet i suggest you do you will be surprised how faster and how effective is bing yahoo indexation. wait for couples of days en perform the site: www.domain.com you will see how index differ with google

[Marc1987]

Thanks for the tip - I will do that. But I don't understand how this has something to do with this issue. At the moment all search engines show my sites ranking (so probably indexed). Just Search Console is giving me some wrong(?) information. I don't think there can be a discrepancy in a way that Google Search Console shows me de-indexing in advance of google serp.

Cheers

[Rosebankcollege]

Try to identiy pages that has more links and use "fetch as google" and chose to re-crawl the URL.

[Marc1987]

That is what I did around 7 days ago, so before the drop of index.

[Andy.Drinkwater]

You aren't disturbing Marco

It really isn't uncommon to see discrepancies like this. I see them every day! A 25% drop like this suggests to me that Google is perhaps doing a little bit of a reshuffling.

I would wait just a bit to see if the number of pages starts to increase as there isn't an awful lot else you can do - it sounds like it has all been done.

-Andy

[Marc1987]

Thanks a lot Andy,

maybe it has something to do with "fetching as google", which I did around 1 week ago with they main homepage as I changed some major keywords (titel tag) and moved them to other sites (blog categories etc) when I added our first product/collection.

Nevermind - time will tell

Thanks again!

[Andy.Drinkwater]

I think this might explain your issue...

Gary Illyes @methode

Bad news: we might have a problem with reporting the number of indexed URLs in the SC Sitemaps feature. Good news: we're looking into it

Soooo, it looks like the number of indexed pages in Webmaster Tools (Search Console) is being reported incorrectly.

That would explain what you are seeing

-Andy

[Marc1987]

Andy, thanks so much for that piece of quality content!

[Andy.Drinkwater]

No problem at all

[Marc1987]

Everything is back to normal.

Thanks again, Andy.

[Andy.Drinkwater]

Excellent news - glad it has all returned

-Andy