{"id":28252,"date":"2026-09-08T21:52:59","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T18:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/baidu-bilgi-bankasi\/the-index-volume-tool\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T02:55:31","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T23:55:31","slug":"the-index-volume-tool","status":"publish","type":"ar_bkb","link":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/baidu-bilgi-bankasi\/the-index-volume-tool\/","title":{"rendered":"The index volume tool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Index volume (\u7d22\u5f15\u91cf) is the count of pages Baidu holds for a site, reported in the Search Resource Platform. Baidu&#8217;s own framing is exact: <strong>index volume is the basis of traffic<\/strong>, which is why a fall is worth investigating rather than watching.<\/p>\n<h2>Cause 1 \u2014 URLs not standardised<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Several domains or URL forms serving the same content:<\/strong> multiple domains answering <code>200<\/code>, or one domain with case variants and changed URL rules. <em>Remedy:<\/em> choose the primary form, <code>301<\/code> everything else to it, and submit the change through the site revision tool.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Your content on external platforms.<\/strong> Syndication and partner distribution can lead Baidu to index the external copy and <em>reject the original<\/em>. <em>Remedy:<\/em> push new URLs through the API immediately on publication, and delay syndication so your copy is seen first.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mirroring<\/strong> \u2014 someone serving your content on their domain. <em>Remedy:<\/em> DNS and server security, bind to a single resolvable domain, and <strong>use absolute URLs in page links<\/strong> so a mirrored copy links back to you.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Cause 2 \u2014 declining favour<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Content quality falling<\/strong> \u2014 stop simple copying, integrate information.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Publishing volume and frequency falling.<\/strong> Baidu describes the mechanism explicitly: lower frequency reduces the site&#8217;s quota, which shows first as <em>reduced crawl frequency<\/em> and then as reduced index volume. Publishing rate is an input to crawl budget here.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Time-sensitive content expiring<\/strong> \u2014 such pages are not kept indefinitely.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bad neighbourhoods on the page<\/strong> \u2014 paid soft-article links, aggressive pop-ups, sensitive content, cheating.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Cause 3 \u2014 an algorithm<\/h2>\n<p>Watch the platform messages and the search dynamics announcements, correct according to the published notice, submit feedback, and wait for the next algorithm update.<\/p>\n<h2>Cause 4 \u2014 lost trust<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Link-factory participation<\/strong> \u2014 reduce outbound links, never vote for poor pages.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Subject change<\/strong> \u2014 Baidu&#8217;s remedy is unusually specific: process the old field&#8217;s pages <em>as dead links<\/em>, submit them, block access to those URLs, and only then publish the new subject with active submission.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Guilt by association<\/strong> \u2014 many penalised sites on the same IP or the same owner. Leave the neighbourhood.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Hosting<\/strong> \u2014 offshore hosting can be unstable, and stability affects everything above.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>How to work a drop<\/h2>\n<p>Check crawl frequency first: if it fell before index volume did, the cause is on the quota side \u2014 publishing rate, server availability or trust. If crawl held steady while the index fell, the cause is page-level: duplication, quality or an algorithm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Index volume (\u7d22\u5f15\u91cf) is the count of pages Baidu holds for a site, reported in the Search Resource Platform. Baidu&#8217;s own framing is exact: index volume is the basis of traffic, which is why a fall is worth investigating rather than watching. 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