Page(s) Indexed Newer but re-built site

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Looking for some answers here from you guys if possible.

I have a newer site, aprox. 5 months old. The site was built in an extreme rush with its 5 pages. Nothing else was done, basically 5 fast pages and a sitemap.

About a week ago, I got around to building the site the way I wanted to. The site sells a local service. The new site is about 12 pages.
When I re-did the site, I re-directed all the old pages to the new corresponding pages. After completion I submitted the new sitemap to webmaster tools.

Now, from my other site I have made, when I submitted my new site and sitemap, usually within 2 days it will show almost all the pages indexed.
This site after about 5 days, in WMT shows just the main page indexed. No errors were returned, there is nothing blocking in robots.
If I do a site:domainname.com search it shows about 9 of the new pages, plus the old pages as well.

So my question is, is this normal to see one page indexed in WMT? Are the other pages actually indexed because they show in Google? Does G just need to make sense of it all?
I want to start building some back links but wondering if I should wait.

Thanks for any insight guys
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  • Tedobee,

    Information in WMT does take a while to update. If you are seeing URLs popup in search using the special operator then they are indeed indexed. I would just worry about the ones that you don’t see in search. Also, when you submitted the URLs to Google, did you make sure and check the box that says all linked pages? If you don’t check the box, Google just crawls the page you submit in the box and not anything linked to it.

    Hope that helps,

    Shawn
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    Thanks Shawn. Ill have a look again at how it was submitted.
    Will the old pages come out of search eventually? Cant see it mattering as there redirected but just curious.

    Another quick question, if I may. When I share my site on Facebook, it pulls the old content and old image. Is this due to it hasnt fully changed over or is that an FB issue?

    thanks again
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