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Found it- http://searchengineland.com/google-we-might-have-a-problem-with-index-count-reporting-in-google-search-console-228550

Nope, first thing I looked at was that.

The last nine days of product are not showing up in Google's index.

Robots has not changed, an no noindex meta tag.

Under crawl stats, Pages Crawled Per Day and Kilobytes Downloaded Per Day jumped around the time this happened. Time spent downloading stayed the same.

A few weeks after the spike in pages crawled and kilobytes downloaded dropped back to the normal range.

I have an ecommerce marketplace that has new items added daily. In search consoloe my pages have always gone up almost every week. It hasn't increased in 5 weeks. We haven't made any changes to the site and the sitemap looks good. Any ideas on what I should look for?

That was kind of my thought as well but with the drop in traffic I have to look at everything. SO strange.

We only changed it on item pages and traffic dropped on both item and category pages.

It did line up perfectly with this though https://www.seroundtable.com/google-algorithm-update-chatter-spikes-22472.html

I have been trying to figure this out- https://moz.com/community/q/what-should-i-do-with-old-e-commerce-item-pages

I added n/a to the end of the page titles so I could figure out how these pages were performing. Since I added them my organic traffic has seemed to have dropped. It has only been a few days so maybe it is an anomaly. Everything else has stayed the same, would this cause an organic traffic drop?

They have stopped, with no changes to the site. I have no idea why. Thank you for the offer though.

It seems to have stopped with no changes to the site. I have no idea why.

What I want to know is why Google is finding these pages at all. I can normally look at linked from and find any problems. But if these are not linked from anywhere why is Google finding them?

In Search Console I am getting errors under other. It is showing urls that have this format-

https://www.site.com/Item/654321~SURE⠃︲蝞韤諫䴴SPপ�.htm

When clicked it shows 蝞韤諫䴴SPপ�  instead of the % stuff.

As you can see this is an item page and the normal item page pulls up fine with no issues. This doesn't show it is linked from anywhere. Why would google pull this url? It doesn't exist on the site anywhere. It is a custom asp.net site. This started happening in mid May but we didn't make any changes then.

I can send it in a message.

Loading times have stayed really stable.

There are no 404 errors in either tool.

Using the fetch as Googlebot tool the pages all work fine.

It doesn't make any sense.

I haven't made any changes to my site but in a week I am showing 30-40 soft 404s in Webmaster Tools. This just started happening in the last 2 weeks. When I click to go to the pages they are fine, and even fetch and render works fine on the pages.

Just noticed this response. I got a hold of someone at Microsoft and what happened was the site was never re-indexed as https. This drop in traffic lasted a few 6 weeks or so while the site was being re-indexed. It is now back to normal. So strange there was a year delay in htps indexing.

1.No the pdfs are not optimized. They are given to us from customers or manufacturers, we do not actually create them. Some of them are close to ten years old and we have thousands so going back and doing that would be extremely time consuming. Some of them are so technical we couldn't optimize them even if we wanted to.

2. They do not have any links or navigation. Do you have any thoughts on how to do that in bulk?

3. Many of these are diagrams, so unless we convert it to jpg I am not sure we could turn them into pages.

I am still mixed on if we should do this or not. I am wondering now if there is an easy way to embed them.

On my main site we link to pdfs that are located on another one of our domains. The only thing that is on this other domain is the pdfs. It was setup really poorly so I am going to redesign everything and probably move it. Is it worthwhile trying to add these pdfs to our sitemap and to try and get them indexed? They are all connected to a current item, but the content is original.

Robots.txt and htaccess are both good.

Switched to https over a year ago

Sitemap has no errors.

We did a site redesign and launched. All of the urls stayed the same though.

I have claimed it, the indexation since site launch has really decreased. Any ideas on what would cause my index to decrease while it would stay the same on Google?

I checked all the regular stuff. My Google traffic is probably up by about 10% so if it was something like a robots problem I think Google would have picked it up as well which is why I am so unsure on what to look at.