Google not indexing pages - is site structure to blame?

by tomoms
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Hi guys,

I would really appreciate some help on this as it is driving me crazy! We have a medium-sized website with over 1800 pages, most of which are not being indexed by Google - not good. Firstly, these are not pages that we've recently 'thrown up', most have been live for over a year.

The website is Download Free Stock Footage | Free Stock Video and HD video clips - Videvo.net - we offer free stock footage for any project. The clip download pages (which you'll see if you click on a clip thumbnail under browse page) are not being indexed by Google. There are almost 1800 of these, and it would provide a big boost in traffic if they were. My question is, what is causing Google not to index?

My initial thoughts were down to site structure, or poor coding, but the code doesn't look terrible to me (I am not a programmer so not 100% sure on this) - another thing I considered is that there is not enough readable content on the pages for Google to consider indexing it - maybe it doesn't think it's worth it due to lack of readable content.

Any help really would be hugely appreciated. Also if there are any of you out there that are interested, we are considering paying for a full site audit so we can optimise pages and structure for Google. Please pm me if interested.

Thanks a lot
#blame #google #indexing #pages #site #structure
  • Profile picture of the author SJL
    There's actually 3550 pages indexed (not including forum). :rolleyes:

    First of all register it on https://support.google.com/webmasters/ and soon you will know a lot more.

    Next goto PageSpeed Insights because your site need serious speed boost.

    Whats wrong with product pages (at least)?
    - No (HTML) title
    - No meta description
    - Minimal unique content
    - Do-follow author link on every page

    Easy unique title for site like yours could be "File name | Item #11111 | Videvo.net". For example http://www.videvo.net/video/red-blood-cells/1660 would be "Red Blood Cells | Item #1660 | Videvo.net"
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  • Profile picture of the author ollwebsolution
    Check your robots.txt file
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    • Profile picture of the author tomoms
      Hey SJL,

      Thanks for the recommendations, page speed definitely is an issue yes. We're set up on webmaster tools so that's all good.

      With the product pages, will having no meta title and description stop Google from Indexing? Also is having do follow links a bad thing then?
      If we fixed these issues would you expect Google to index, if we added more readable content too? Robots.txt is fine.

      Thanks again
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  • Profile picture of the author tanveerhabib
    Hello, Google indexing is not concerned with speed of your page or with adding your site to Google webmaster tools. Yes in web master tools you can submit sitemap that may trigger Google bots to index your site but the only thing which will work is pinging your website. After pinging your site pages will be indexed very fast.
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  • Profile picture of the author davdwarnner
    If you want that Google or other search engine can index all pages for website then start quality off-page Submissions for all pages
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  • Profile picture of the author Anne Laidlaw
    You have to have page title & meta descriptions for the pages.
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