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Originally Posted by iojam
DefenceTalk,
sitemap protocol has no commands to remove pages from the index, so it can't force the number of indexed pages to drop.
There are, however, other factors (not related to sitemap) that may cause this (these changes may be related to a google update).
You can also add your sitemap files URLs to the google webmaster account to check if there is a parse error.
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We were able to fix this problem by DISABLING the
vBSEO Installed? in the sitemap generator vbOptions. The forum indexes went from 500 to 11,000+ over night.
Thanks for the hack.