Maybe somone can explain this to me...

[CreationNation]

This is driving me nuts tryingto figure out.

I use VB SEO on my forum, and it's been quite a few months now. I also use the Google/Yahoo submission tool and the latest report shows this:

Summary:
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Forum Display: 6952
Show Thread: 666214
Show Post: 9152950
Member Profiles: 139472
Poll Results: 11052
Archive: 1249

Total Indexed URLs: 9977890

So here's the question. I had watched my results for like a month (using site:ultimatemetal.com) and it was consistently around 24,000 - last week/2 weeks it finally jumped to about 310,000 results, which made me happy of course. Now, I check today, and it's down to 125,000!

What causes this result to jump so much knowing how much content/threads, etc. are being submitted?

 

[Laura]

It's just the Goog messing with you.

I stressed last summer about our indexed pages (they were low), then made a bunch of changes and the numbers increased. But traffic didn't really change. It made no sense and probably the changes I made had nothing to do with it. Since then, I ONLY check traffic stats. Anything else make me crazy.

So the real question is this: Has traffic changed to match the indexed page change?

Laura

 

[wie08e54]

Different DCs.

 

[Fender963]

Like Laura said, don't stress about the number of indexed pages.

A couple of months after installing it on one of my boards I saw my count jump to just under 200k in yahoo only to see it drop down to 120k a month later.

Google was just all over the place depending on data center and whatever else goes on in that little algorithm.

I did however notice an increase in targetted traffic. This is after all what matters isn't it?