I have 6421 questions on this CAT phones & tablets but CAT plugin shows that thre is 64 questions

Question

This problem have dropped the site ranking please help

Comments

All other categories are fine

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Visit this link https://www.satechhelp.co.za/categories and you will see the category that have  6421 questions have 64 questions on home page categories. Please guys i really need your help i'm willing to pay if necessary

Answer 1

Firstly I doubt that an incorrect number makes any difference to ranking whatsoever. But it is a strange problem.

Did you add some posts directly to the database? Try going to Admin > Stats and clicking the buttons "recount posts" and "recalculate categories". You should then get correct numbers.

If not then it's hard to know the problem. Is the number 64 increasing when a new question is asked in that category? Are there questions in that category directly and not subcategories?

Comments

1. No the number is not increasing when a new question is asked.
2. Yes there are direct  questions in that category.

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The categories goes like this
Parent CAT: Phone and tablet [There are direct questions to this cat]
Sub CAT => Name of phone manufacturer [and there are direct questions to this one too]
Sub CAT2 => Phone model. [Most questions in this one]

Other categories except "Phone and tablet" are are fine and they only have 1 sub-category.

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Did you click the recalc buttons as I mentioned?

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Yes i did but still the same

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Strange, I can't see what the problem could be. The numbers for the category page and category widget both come from the same function.

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Truly strange sir. May be this might give a clue for a solution https://www.satechhelp.co.za/sitemap-category-mobile-phones-&-pdas-nokia-android-nokia-5-0.xml Got this error from Google webmasterstool

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If i move a sub category from the second sub-category to "No parent (top level) then the number of questions becomes correct. I' not sure whether the 64 is the number of the sub-cats but when i count i get 60 sub-cats. what happened to the 4?