Does Google Not Like Long URLS???

[guest]

Hi all,

I've just been checking how much of one of my sites has been indexed, and wanted to know if i'd done somthing wrong.

Basically "site:www . my-site . com"

Is showing that google has indexed my site, BUT only only short urls... All my actually pages are not indexed. This is a wordpress blog. the pages are pages not posts.

www . my-site . com/
www . my-site . com/contact/
www . my-site . com/terms/
www . my-site . com/about/
www . my-site . com/sitemap.xml
www . my-site . com/hello-world/ (<-- a post not a page)
www . my-site . com/hello-test/ (<-- a post not a page)

All the above are indexed ok. Now, my actual pages...

www . my-site . com/word-word-keyword/
www . my-site . com/word-word-keyword/

About the length of the above examples. None of them are indexed. Does wordpress have some settings in the htaccess to not let robots crawl pages, only posts?

It just seems strange that the whole wordpress blog is indexed, except for the actual pages. The Pages were all added at the same time, also the same tim the "hello-test" post was added, so i do not think it's because they are newer

Are my urls too long? Could there be any other reason.

Any info would be great.

Many thanks.

[iworkforthem]

In WP Setting > Permanlinks , you can make the necessary to change the format of your URLs. To block the crawlers from accessing your web page, you got to change the .htaccess ...

[dburk]

Hi guest,

The Googlebot may have visited before you had posted those other pages. Search engine spiders will only visit a handful of pages with each visit. If they find more pages on the next visit then they keep coming back until they have most of your website indexed. You are probably seeing the first few pages that were indexed, wait a while and you will see more of your pages being indexed.

[paulgl]

Google doesn't rank domains, urls, etc. They rank websites.
Length has nothing to do with it.

Paul

[guest]

thanks for the reply guys :-)

Originally Posted by dburk

The Googlebot may have visited before you had posted those other pages.

thanks dburk, but I installed wp, then pasted 5 articles to each page - so basically it was all created at once, then I submitted some articles to goarticles with backlinks to my site. So even the first time spiders saw my site, the pages were already on there.

I'm sure I must have somthing setup wrong - as I just cannot workout why it's missed all the pages, and indexed the posts and contact/terms pages.

Cheers guys.

[dburk]

Originally Posted by guest

thanks for the reply guys :-)



thanks dburk, but I installed wp, then pasted 5 articles to each page - so basically it was all created at once, then I submitted some articles to goarticles with backlinks to my site. So even the first time spiders saw my site, the pages were already on there.

I'm sure I must have somthing setup wrong - as I just cannot workout why it's missed all the pages, and indexed the posts and contact/terms pages.

Cheers guys.

Hi guest,

What I said still applies, when you make a post in WP it immeadiately pings through ping-o-matic, you could have had bot visit while you were composing those other posts. But, the real issue is as I previously stated, the bots will only crawl a few pages at a time. You will likely see your other pages added, a few at a time, over the next week or two.

[Joshua.E1]

It should not be a problem, maybe you need to ping your blog post one by one using Pingler.

Or read here to find out how to index website fast.

[paulgl]

Originally Posted by TheCrabb

You try getting a ranking for a url that is passing session IDs!

Many sites pass session IDs. Traffic exchanges for one. And traffic exchanges
are ranked. Nothing magical about a session ID. Many sites that require a
login pass a session id. And they are highly ranked. Ever login to an online
email account? You don't think gmail is ranked? Yahoo mail?

If you are talking about a url WITH a session id, not sure that is a relevant
question. Why on earth would you want your unique session be ranked?
It's only for internal purposes. As soon as you log out, it dies.

Paul

[guest]

Hi guys,

Just an update question...

I see that all my pages are now "indexed" -- but if i do: site: "www . site . com"

I see 3 pages (terms/contact/privacy) then this:

In order to show you the most relevant results, we have omitted some entries very similar to the 3 already displayed.
If you like, you can repeat the search with the omitted results included.

Why would all the rest of my pages be omitted? Does that mean they would not come up in a search result?

I also notice that when i search site: "www . site . com"

I get these results:

www . site . com/terms
 www . site . com/privacy
 www . site . com/contact

All the results are indented - what does that mean? when they are all indented from the "terms" page? Does google think all the other pages, including the actual index are just sub-pages of the terms??

Thanks for any help on this.

Cheers.

[dburk]

Hi guest,

You will usual see this if some of your pages do not have unique titles and meta descriptions. You can use a plug-in like All-In-One SEO to edit the title and descriptions for each of your posts.

[guest]

Hi dburk :-)

I have a seo plugin - and all my titles / meta / etc are unique to each page.

I will try changing some to see if it helps - but do you/anyone have any other ideas?

Thanks for the help :-)

[jitterbug978]

Google could care less about url length...