Which URLs were indexed 2 years ago?

[Sandra_h]

Hi,

I hope anyone can help me with this issue. Our french domain experienced a huge drop of indexed URLs in 2012. More than 50k URLs were indexed, after the drop less than 10k were counted.

I would like to check what happened here and which URLs were thrown out of the index. So I was thinking about a comparison between todays data and the data of 2012. Unfortunately we don't have any data on the indexed pages in 2012 beside the number of indexed pages.

Is there any way to check, which URLs were indexed 2 years ago?

[Chris.Menke]

Sandra,

There's no outright way to compare google's cache of today with its cache of a date in the past that I know of.  If you had google analytics installed at that time, you could go about getting useful info from that source.  Since the primary matter is really which pages were bringing in search traffic  then that are not bringing in search traffic now, you could compare landing page stats from today vs. two years ago to see which pages are not bringing in traffic any longer.

Any chance your website was redesigned in the mean time? Sometimes change of navigation, architecture, or URLs can be the culprit.