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    • wickedsunny1
      wickedsunny1 last edited by

      Hello,

      After the penguin update my site slowly suffered loss in traffic. and now from daily 15K-18K its droped to 8K. (6K in weekends)

      I have been trying to find out what the reasons are but i havent got any good luck yet been few months now.

      I noticed this change in the GWT tho :

      Not selected in index status significantly risen up. please see attached image.

      My site is Designzzz

      i am continously fixing errors and problems shown in the seomoz pro tools.

      If you guys can take few mins to evaluate what could be the reason for such drop i will be thankful :}

      cheers

      6Xtkp.jpg

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      • Travis-W
        Travis-W last edited by

        How many pages do you have on your website? 40,000 or is it closer to 10,000?

        If the number of 'Not Selected' pages is much higher than the amount of pages you actually have on your site, it is probably due to your internal search engine.

        I noticed on your search results pages, for example http://www.designzzz.com/search/?q=photography, you do not have a meta 'noindex' tag.

        I suspect that adding this tag will remove a good chunk of your 'Not Selected' pages.

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        • wickedsunny1
          wickedsunny1 @Travis-W last edited by

          Hello Zora, yes i have around 11k pages.

          About search, wow how did i missed it. on other thought that page consists of google search. i am gona change that and see how it will turn out.

          thanks alot :}

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