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    Domain Authority Dropped and Indexed Pages Went Down on Google?

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    • kindalpaca7
      kindalpaca7 last edited by

      Hi there,

      We run an e-commerce site on Shopify.

      Our Domain Authority was 28 at the start of our campaign  in May of this year. We also had 610 indexed pages on Google. We did some SEO work which included:

      • Renaming Images for SEO
      • Adding in alt tags
      • Optimizing the meta title to "Product Name - Keyword - Brand Name" for products
      • Optimizing meta descriptions
      • Transition of Hubspot blog to Shopify (it was on a subdomain at Hubspot previously)
      • Fixing some 404s
      • Resubmitting site map after the changes

      Now it is almost at the 3-month mark and it looks like our Domain Authority has gone down 4 points to 24. The # of indexed pages has gone to down to 555. We made sure all our SEO updates weren't spammy or keyword-stuffed, but took a natural and helpful-sounding approach. We followed guidelines. So there shouldn't be any penalty right?

      I checked site traffic and it does not coincide with the drop. Our site traffic remains steady. I also looked at "site:" as well as conducted some test searches for the important pages (i.e. main pages, blog pages, and product pages) and they still come up on Google. So could it only be non-important pages being deindexed?

      My questions are:

      • Why did both the Domain Authority and # of indexed pages go down?

      • Is there any way to see which pages were deindexed?

      • I checked Google Search Console, but couldn't find it.

      Thank you!

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