(Entry was posted by Ana Kvesic on this post in the Dumb SEO Questions community on Facebook, 10/06/2013).

Everything looks fine but there was a sudden drop in the number of indexed pages. What could be the problem?

Hello,

in april this year there was a sudden drop in the number of indexed pages. I check with my IT suport and they assured me that there is no problem with: incorrect canonicals, robots.txt or noindex meta, and server was not down or overloaded.

What could be the problem? And what should I check next?

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Selected answers from the Dumb SEO Questions Facebook & G+ community.

Michael Dowling: What about your xml site map? Is it up to date and set up at a reasonable crawl interval? ;
Bill Hartzer: I think the problem is that you're asking your IT support people, not your SEO.
Ovidiu Burduja: Ana, how did you realise there is a sudden drop in the amount of #indexed #links, from a search on google or via their #webmaster #tools?
Ranu Jain: Hi Ana,

Is there a continuous decrease from April till now? Also, could you please tell me the no. of indexed pages before April and after April?
W.E. Jonk: From the expert panel in this weeks SEO Questions hangout on air on 01:13:52 into the YouTube video: https://dumbseoquestions.com/q/everything_looks_fine_but_there_was_a_sudden_drop_in_the_number_of_indexed_pages_what_could_be_the_problem