Apps disappearing from Search Results

[Harvey]

My apps are disappearing from search results:

This app, the directory has hundred of pages and is only showing 20:

https://www.google.com/search?sclient=psy-ab&site=&source=hp&q=site:directory.nyskiblog.com&oq=site:directory.nyskiblog.com&gs_l=hp.3...1700.1700.0.2555.2.2.0.0.0.0.172.293.0j2.2.0....0...1c.2.64.psy-ab..2.0.0.0.v3iJ6ZyDda4&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_cp.&bvm=bv.107763241,d.eWE&biw=1440&bih=702&dpr=2&ech=1&psi=QkxNVt_-BcfZmwHQkYnQDg.1447906370712.3&ei=QkxNVt_-BcfZmwHQkYnQDg&emsg=NCSR&noj=1

same issue here...

https://www.google.com/search?sclient=psy-ab&biw=1440&bih=702&noj=1&q=site%3Amag.nyskiblog.com&oq=site%3Amag.nyskiblog.com&gs_l=serp.3...20945.21189.1.21638.3.3.0.0.0.0.76.76.1.1.0....0...1c.1.64.serp..3.0.0.TxpLg3EApmk

and here....

https://www.google.com/search?sclient=psy-ab&biw=1440&bih=702&noj=1&q=site%3Aforum.nyskiblog.com&oq=site%3Aforum.nyskiblog.com&gs_l=serp.3...22299.26777.1.27177.14.12.2.0.0.0.245.1236.2j7j1.10.0....0...1c.1.64.serp..14.0.0.H-MJrhDhaNc

Each of these apps has dramatically fewer results in search than they had one year ago, and many fewer than they actually have.  The home page for these apps is in not in the google index.

Organic Traffic is down year over year sitewide 35% and half my site is wordpress. Those pages are actually up 10%. All of the drop is from the nabble pages.

They don't seem to be "noindexed."

This problem is real, please don't make me expend effort proving it to be so.

[GregChapman]

Harvey wrote

My apps are disappearing from search results:

This problem is real, please don't make me expend effort proving it to be so.

I believe Nabble are well aware of this, reporting, in a post to Coleen_Astalos, shortly after we lost Pedro from the Support staff, about their change in charges for Premium Support, how their own income had dropped dramatically due to changes in the way Google operated.

[Harvey]

GregChapman wrote

Harvey wrote

My apps are disappearing from search results:

This problem is real, please don't make me expend effort proving it to be so.

I believe Nabble are well aware of this, reporting, in a post to Coleen_Astalos, shortly after we lost Pedro from the Support staff, about their change in charges for Premium Support, how their own income had dropped dramatically due to changes in the way Google operated.

With all due respect, I don't accept this. It's not credible unless I'm misunderstanding what you are saying.

I'm a professional SEO. This much I know as fact:

Google strives to index the entire web.  The more complete the index is, the more valuable it is, and the more money they can make.

The home page of my apps, sought after pages, are not in the index:

forum.nyskiblog.com
mag.nyskiblog.com
directory.nyskiblog.com

This is valuable content that is regularly sought out in search engines (or it used to be).

This page:

nabble.com

is in the index. What is the difference? Not embedded? Not a subdomain?

As a pro, I'm actually embarrassed that it took me so long to figure it out.

When did Colleen report this? It seems my traffic started to drop around July 10 of this year.

Understand that if i REMOVE the Wordpress 1/2 of my site from these numbers the drop would be even more dramatic:


Organic Traffic Year over Year

[Harvey]

Like to hear an explanation. Got to believe this is structural, not Google.

What would explain the apps disappearance from Yahoo? Bing?

The common denominator is nabble not Google.

[GregChapman]

I may have misinterpreted Hugo's comment made at the end of this topic:
http://support.nabble.com/Paid-support-td7593217.html
which is the one I had in mind, as it seems to pre-date the announcement mentioned here:
http://support.nabble.com/Mobile-optimization-tp7594498p7594510.html

Certainly, since April I had emails from Google warning me that two of my sites weren't "Mobile-friendly" and warning me that they would henceforth be much worse ranked when a search took place on a mobile device.

As Nabble's code relies heavily on tables and their fixed nature can display poorly on mobile devices. I wonder of many of your visitors may be using them and just not finding your site any more?

I don't know if other search providers have adopted a similar policy to Google, but I suspect they may have.