Google is not indexing catagory pages but product pages

10 years ago

Originally Posted by jhakasseo

Hello Warriors,

After searching on google for this specific issue I ended up with nothing.

This website hxxp://megavenues.com
I can index product pages from GWT using fetch as googlebot but can not index category pages. Its been over month but not a single category page is index.
I have tried same with category pages but they are not indexing. Also checked coding there isnt any tag like NOfollow or something.

Please can any SEO expert will let me know what exactly is the issue with this.

The 6 links in the left hand navigation don't show the URL when I hover over them in firefox

I suggest you also include those links in the footer area as standard links

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jhakasseo

10 years ago

Originally Posted by affilliate-script

The 6 links in the left hand navigation don't show the URL when I hover over them in firefox

I suggest you also include those links in the footer area as standard links

Thanks for replying on the issue.
There are links for navigation you mentioned.
Just check the attachment.

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affilliate-script

10 years ago

OK, so the links to the category pages are the top ones

Then its lack of description meta and poor title to content relevancy:

megavenues.com/city/Pune/search/search_display_event_type/Weddings_Reception

Title: Title relevancy to page content is fair.
The Title relevancy to page content is 50%.

Description: Found no description meta tag.

megavenues.com/city/Pune/search/search_display_event_type/Meetings

Title: Title relevancy to page content is fair.
The Title relevancy to page content is 50%.

Description: Found no description meta tag.

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jhakasseo

10 years ago

Originally Posted by affilliate-script

OK, so the links to the category pages are the top ones

Then its lack of description meta and poor title to content relevancy:

megavenues.com/city/Pune/search/search_display_event_type/Weddings_Reception

Title: Title relevancy to page content is fair.
The Title relevancy to page content is 50%.

Description: Found no description meta tag.

megavenues.com/city/Pune/search/search_display_event_type/Meetings

Title: Title relevancy to page content is fair.
The Title relevancy to page content is 50%.

Description: Found no description meta tag.

Come on dude. Please check there is description already added. You can see int page source code.

Originally Posted by affilliate-script

Also, what's with the 6 levels deep site architecture?

e.g.
megavenues.com/city/Pune/search/search_display_event_type/Meetings

Its crazy

You can only be sure that Google and the other search engines will index down to 3 levels - and even if they do go deeper than 3 levels, even level 4 content will usually be regarded as being "not important"

This is not the issue nor google treat links such way you are trying ti say here. You can see many results on SERP with long urls.

I just want to know why they are no getting index as product pages are indexing without any issue.

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affilliate-script 10 years ago

Originally Posted by jhakasseo

Come on dude. Please check there is description already added. You can see int page source code.

You can see it but the search bots can't

I checked it with an online SEO page checking tool
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affilliate-script

10 years ago

Originally Posted by jhakasseo

This is not the issue nor google treat links such way you are trying ti say here. You can see many results on SERP with long urls.

I just want to know why they are no getting index as product pages are indexing without any issue.

OK, tell me which pages are not indexed

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jhakasseo

10 years ago

Originally Posted by affilliate-script

OK, tell me which pages are not indexed

All category pages not indexing as my question started above.
I have seen closely there isnt any noindex tag or anything that preventing Google to index pages.

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affilliate-script

10 years ago

Originally Posted by jhakasseo

All category pages not indexing as my question started above.
I have seen closely there isnt any noindex tag or anything that preventing Google to index pages.

OK, we're going round in circles here

I've been a SEO for 15 years - and I have no idea which are your category pages - your site architecture is bizarre

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jhakasseo

10 years ago

Originally Posted by affilliate-script

OK, we're going round in circles here

I've been a SEO for 15 years - and I have no idea which are your category pages - your site architecture is bizarre

Yeah thanks. I think so but now we cant do anything but solve this problem.
I also never saw or had any problem like this.

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affilliate-script 10 years ago

Originally Posted by jhakasseo

Yeah thanks. I think so but now we cant do anything but solve this problem.
I also never saw or had any problem like this.

I'm guessing this is a "hotel" script you bought somewhere

If so, I'd see if there is a user forum where the issues have been discussed, and maybe resolved

I'll wait and see what the other guys have to say - my thoughts are to scrap the site and re-build it with a more conventional navigation architecture
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affilliate-script

10 years ago

Also, what's with the 6 levels deep site architecture?

e.g.
megavenues.com/city/Pune/search/search_display_event_type/Meetings

Its crazy

You can only be sure that Google and the other search engines will index down to 3 levels - and even if they do go deeper than 3 levels, even level 4 content will usually be regarded as being "not important"

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affilliate-script

10 years ago

I've just re-checked and your pages are not even showing titles according to an online SEO site checker

e.g.
megavenues.com/city/Pune/search/search_display_event_type/Meetings

I'll be interested to see what the other SEO's think of your site - I cannot see why you are linking from the home page directly to level 6

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jhakasseo

10 years ago

Still waiting for expert views on this.
Anybody want to help?

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Ricardo Furtado

10 years ago

Awesome insights shared by Warriors over here.
Thanks guys.
All the best. Regards.

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yukon

Banned 10 years ago

No offense but that's a horrible site structure.

These different URLs all have the same content:

hxxp://megavenues.com/city/
hxxp://megavenues.com/city/Pune/
hxxp://megavenues.com/city/Pune/search/
hxxp://megavenues.com/city/Pune/search/search_display_event_type/

You have so much unnecessary confusion going on with that site.

Like others have said, I don't have a clue which page/URL is your category. There's so many pages with the same content.

My advice is to overhaul the site & get the redundant pages removed, 301 redirect to the correct URLs.

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jhakasseo

10 years ago

Originally Posted by yukon

No offense but that's a horrible site structure.

These different URLs all have the same content:

hxxp://megavenues.com/city/
hxxp://megavenues.com/city/Pune/
hxxp://megavenues.com/city/Pune/search/
hxxp://megavenues.com/city/Pune/search/search_display_event_type/

You have so much unnecessary confusion going on with that site.

Like others have said, I don't have a clue which page/URL is your category. There's so many pages with the same content.

My advice is to overhaul the site & get the redundant pages removed, 301 redirect to the correct URLs.

OK. this is big Issue. I knew this first place just wanted to confirm whether am I right or not.
Thanks for your advice really appreciated.

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jhakasseo

10 years ago

Originally Posted by yukon

No offense but that's a horrible site structure.

These different URLs all have the same content:

hxxp://megavenues.com/city/
hxxp://megavenues.com/city/Pune/
hxxp://megavenues.com/city/Pune/search/
hxxp://megavenues.com/city/Pune/search/search_display_event_type/

You have so much unnecessary confusion going on with that site.

Like others have said, I don't have a clue which page/URL is your category. There's so many pages with the same content.

My advice is to overhaul the site & get the redundant pages removed, 301 redirect to the correct URLs.

Which one would you recommend?
showing 404 not found on other pages or doing redirection to homepage?

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Google is not indexing catagory pages but product pages

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