Why Google is Dropping Pages Like Crazy
 by Ian Cook

Report One | Report Two
Part II: The gory technical details...
Why Google is Dropping Pages Like Crazy
and How To Protect Your Site From Getting Hit!

— By Esoos Bobnar

By now you know the web is feeling the full force of Google's most recent update, dubbed Bigdaddy. Many sites have experienced a huge drop in the number of indexed web pages, largely due to Google's reduced crawling and indexing of sites with so-called low quality or untrusted links.

However, even though many pages were dropped intentionally, this doesn't mean that Google hasn't also made some mistakes and hurt some good sites. After all...

There's Still a Few Bugs in the System

Mandatory Disclaimer
This report contains a fair amount of code. While this is the same server code we use on many of our own sites and have tested under a variety of settings, you should always test any code yourself before employing it on a large scale on your own site.

Google's Bigdaddy update is a significant upgrade to Google's crawling and indexing process, so it's natural to expect that such a big change might be accompanied by a few glitches in the massive software program we all know as the Google search engine. Let's tackle them one-by-one.

Duplicate Content Hell — The first problem is that Google continues to suffer from duplicate content issues ...

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