Why is my office page not being indexed?
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Good Morning from 24 degrees C partly cloudy wetherby UK
This page is not being indexed by Google:
http://www.sandersonweatherall.co.uk/office-to-let-leeds/1st Question
Ive checked robots txt file no problems, i'm in the midst of updating the xml sitemap (it had the old one in place). It only has one link from this page http://www.sandersonweatherall.co.uk/Site-Map/
So is the reason oits not being indexed just a simple case of lack if SEO juice from inbound links so the remedy lies in routing more inbound links to the offending page?
2nd question
Is the quickest way to diagnose if a web address is not being indexed to cut and paste the url in the Google search box and if it doesnt return the page theres a problem?
Thanks in advance,
David
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It is indexed : https://www.google.com/search?q=http://www.sandersonweatherall.co.uk/office-to-let-leeds/
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Yes that is good way to go about it . You can also jump in to Google Webmasters tools and try to fetch the page as Google : that way you can see if that page can be crawled
update : You seem to have
www.sandersonweatherall.co.uk/office-to-let/Leeds/ and
www.sandersonweatherall.co.uk/office-to-let-leeds/
and you could type in nay thing at the end of http://www.sandersonweatherall.co.uk/office-to-let/ and the site throws out a page
http://www.sandersonweatherall.co.uk/office-to-let/fghfghfghfgh/ ( i did not add a live link as i did not want that page to show up in the SERP )
not a good sign mate .
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You seem to have at least one other link to that page, but that is from http://www.sandersonweatherall.co.uk/office-to-let/ which also doesn't seem to have been indexed. This page doesn't seem to be linked in, although I haven't crawled the site.
So - 2 links. 1 from low down on a very long sitemap page with 1200 links on it. The other from a page that in itself isn't indexed. That is your answer.
However I think it is sympomatic of a potentially wider problem - your structure is rather odd. The structure in navigation and on page links doesn't seem to match that in your sitemap. Your structure is also deep - what is that 6 levels?
In all honesty it looks like loads of pages have been created hoping to pick up long tail search and those are are only really being linked from the site map and each other. I haven't spent long on it but the instant thought was that it felt like 2 sites: one for the public and one for search - which probably isn't a great idea. Some of that content is rather thin too.
It's all actually an approach that worked pretty well up until the end of last year. Wouldn't be surprised if you were were struggling a bit now though.
If you really just want to get that page indexed then get it linked from a page that is indexed (and doesn't have 1200 other links on it).
If you want to improve further I would start looking at the content on your site and figuring out whether it all deserves to be there, if it does whether it is good enough and whether it is structured in the best possible way.
On an unrelated note I'd also look at the choice of font in the main menu. I really struggled with that.
I think you have some good stuff there. Your case studies could be really good content - move the picture in to the main page, consider broadening each one with a few bullet points. Likewise your people profiles- you've created them, but only linked them in from the sitemap (i think) - seems a missed opportunity.
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I can see it in the index...
Maybe it just took google a while to find it. How old was the page? Did you do anything to prompt Google to index?
The other option to try if you've got a page that's stubbornly refusing to get indexed is to submit the page via google webmaster tools. (Fetch as googlebot and then submit to the index)
Failing that try spidering the site yourself using something like screaming frog or take a look at your server logs to see how google is trawling your site.
In this case I don't see you've got a problem. I can see the page in the index!
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If there are no links to a page then it is very unlikely it will be crawled. As there is only one link to your page then again it is unlikely to be crawled and thus indexed.
I would recommend creating more internal links as a starter and then if that does not work then begin external link building.
Question 2 - that is the quickest way.
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