Google Is Only Indexing 2 Of My Pages??

[Craigb182]

Hey guys,

For some reason on my site, Google is only indexing 2 pages; the home page and the privacy policy. I have submitted the other pages to Google so don't see why they wouldn't be showing up.

Does anyone have any ideas why this may be?

Thanks,

Craig

[ibacklinkpro]

Probably because your site is very new and doesn't have many quality backlinks yet.

[Craigb182]

Ah right so it's more of a waiting game then?

[ibacklinkpro]

Waiting and backlink building and unique quality content creation for your blog (CMS).

[pacelattin]

Two things:

1) Make sure you are using Google Webmaster Tools
2) Add a site map make sure it picks it up.

Here's an example of a site map, you can get programs that make these

http://performinsider.com/sitemap.xml

[krishacetravison]

Site age has nothing to do with indexing...Try pacelattin's recommendation, maybe it has something to do with sitemap or if not, check the coding of your pages.

[Craigb182]

I do not I haven't submitted a sitemap I have only submitted the individual pages so perhaps this could be the problem?

[krishacetravison]

Originally Posted by Craigb182

I do not I haven't submitted a sitemap I have only submitted the individual pages so perhaps this could be the problem?

Try to submit first your sitemap and see the results.

[affilorama-portal]

Another option is to bookmark your site on ten bookmarking sites. Or use Twitter to bring more traffic to your page.

Hope that helps!

[Craigb182]

That's been helpful thanks I'll sort out the sitemap and I will start with bookmarking this is the thing I need to do next as Twitter has already been taken care of

[BarryOnline]

How old is the site?

You don't need to submit each page to Google. All you need is one back link to the home page that Google can follow. If you have good site navigation and all other pages on the site are accessible from the home page, Google will be able to crawl and index your whole site.

It takes time for each page to show up in Googles index though, as Google needs to find out what each page is about then rank them accordingly, which doesn't happen instantly.

Do a search using site:yourwebsite.com over the next couple of weeks, you should see more pages gradually appearing.

[BenJackson]

Originally Posted by Craigb182

Hey guys,

For some reason on my site, Google is only indexing 2 pages; the home page and the privacy policy. I have submitted the other pages to Google so don't see why they wouldn't be showing up.

Does anyone have any ideas why this may be?

Thanks,

Craig

Hey Craig,

You don't need to submit anything to Google. In fact, it's probably better to let Google find your content on it's own. Social bookmarks are a good idea, but also try getting some high PR links.

Google sorts indexing priorities loosely on PageRank, so a link from a page with higher PR will get crawled quicker and more consistently.

Also, if only some of your pages are indexed then Google may not have considered your other pages important enough to index. Building backlinks to these page will help with that, not to mention building deep links is always a good idea

[EDIT] One more thing - if you ever need some quick and really strong indexing power, SEO Fast Indexer is the best IMHO

[Amenda Jessera]

Before talking about backlinks, Are you sure that you allow Google to visit your particular page? (I mean via Robot.txt and all or Is there any other coding restricting Google on accessing your pages?),

Double check it

If you are sure that you are allowing your Google to analysis all the pages, then you have to get few backlinks to your each pages daily basis, it will bring Google to you.

[RevSEO]

Build links
Build quality content at regular intervals

Google will index your site.
Dumb question, but are you linking to your pages from your site? Google needs links from one page to the other in order to index your site.

[Craigb182]

Wow some great advice there thank you very much! And RevSeo, I think I am linking to the pages but I am not sure if I fully understand what you mean. Do you mean that the links on the homepage are directing correctly?

[Craigb182]

In fact using the site: command I have just discovered that a 3rd page has been indexed by Google so it appears as if this will happen over the course of the next couple of weeks or less. Seems like this could be problem solved. Thank you for all the great advice and the time everyone has taken to provide insight into this. It is much appreciated!

Craig

[nishanth13]

have patience google will slowly index your pages . After 6 months google indexed 1 lakh 70 thousand pages out of 4 lakh 30 thousand pages from my site so just wait .

[annarayan]

waite 10 to 15 days whenever google robot working slowly

[tryinghard]

Just wait for a few more weeks

[Craigb182]

I've seen the sitemap has been downloaded according to Awstats so Google must have an indication of it now. I'll just play the waiting game and continue to work away

[Jack Samurai]

Wait for a while and start link building activities like do follow forum posting, blog commenting and directory etc.

[rhinocl]

Be sure to build links to your internal pages from outside domains.