Why is Google only indexing 3 of 8 pages?
-
Hi everyone, I have a small 8 page website I launched about 6 months ago. For the life of me I can not figure out why google is only indexing 3 of the 8 pages. The pages are not duplicate content in any way. I have good internal linking structure. At this time I dont have many inbound links from others, that will come in time. Am I missing something here? Can someone give me a clue?
Thanks Tim
-
I know the feeling, it's the same story with me and my own site.
-
Thank you everyone. I suspected the lack of back links to become an issue. But I did think google would index all pages backlinks or not. I just figured the page would not rank high without them. Thank you everyone for your suggestions and I will work on it some more. As soon as I have time.
-
Thanks Keri. I know of these issues. I work on so many sites and this one is my own. So it gets the lower priority when it comes to time spent.
-
Unrelated to indexing, look at the file sizes of images on your page. Some of them are unnecessarily huge, which hurts user experience and can affect rankings (the auto-play of the video is also a negative for user experience).
Also, your home page renders with just the .com or the .com/index.html, and that should be fixed.
If you need instructions or references about how to do any of the suggestions in this thread, please let us know and we can post more information.
-
Your sitemap.xml looks fine, but like Tim said, submit it using Google Webmaster Tools.
Also, add it to your robots.txt file. Add a new line:
User-agent: * Allow: / -
Hi Tim,
Submit you Sitemap.xml in Google Webmaster tools to get fast and better indexing...
Create some good, relevant, high quality backlinks for your other 5 pages..
You will get in Google index fast..
-
At this time I dont have many inbound links from others
I don't think that you are doing anything wrong. However, the speed and depth of indexing depends on the strength and number of inbound links.
Hang in there... you will be indexed in time... get a few more links if you can.
Probably has nothing to do with your indexing problem but there is an awful lot of empty table code on your homepage.
-
Hello,
I'm pretty certain it will be to do with back links. The more relevant back links you can get then the better you're indexing will be.
I run a similar small website which has 12 pages but only 4 are indexed and the one thing it has in common with yours is the lack of links.
Have you thought of adding some of your wedding videos to youtube and going down the social route to attract links?
-
Hi Tim,
The only thing I can figure is that using coords links instead of traditional text links is keeping Google from crawling through the entire site.
Instead of:
<area shape="rect" coords="194,132,289,160" href="wedding-video-pricing.html" alt="Wedding Video Prices Arizona">
Try:
I'm not positive if it will help, but it can't hurt with indexation...
Got a burning SEO question?
Subscribe to Moz Pro to gain full access to Q&A, answer questions, and ask your own.
Browse Questions
Explore more categories
-
Moz Tools
Chat with the community about the Moz tools.
-
SEO Tactics
Discuss the SEO process with fellow marketers
-
Community
Discuss industry events, jobs, and news!
-
Digital Marketing
Chat about tactics outside of SEO
-
Research & Trends
Dive into research and trends in the search industry.
-
Support
Connect on product support and feature requests.
Related Questions
-
Google + and Google Knoladge Graph
I am trying to get things to match up for the company brand websearch and the Google + page and we have had it for years now The knowledge graph on Google is showing the map, address and name (shown in attached image), but is not linked to a G+ page, as when i click the "Are you the business owner?" its is trying to make me create a new G+ business page. Anyone have any ideas on this? Also does the wiki name have to be exact for it to show? As for phone number would that be coming from the DNS record as that is nowhere in the markup rich snippet or normal markup Thanks in advance LC9cWdG
Technical SEO | | David-McGawn0 -
Why seomoz.org still in Google index?
I searched in Google, the number of URLs indexed left in the seomoz.org domain since it changed to moz.comI am surprised that after all this time more than 15,000 URLs indexed:https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=site%3Aseomoz.org%20inurl%3Aseomoz.org If I clicked on any of the results it will be redirect (301) to the new domain, so it is working, but Google still keep these URLs in the index.
Technical SEO | | Yosef
What could be the reason?Will not cause duplicated content issue on moz.com?0 -
Blocked URL parameters can still be crawled and indexed by google?
Hy guys, I have two questions and one might be a dumb question but there it goes. I just want to be sure that I understand: IF I tell webmaster tools to ignore an URL Parameter, will google still index and rank my url? IS it ok if I don't append in the url structure the brand filter?, will I still rank for that brand? Thanks, PS: ok 3 questions :)...
Technical SEO | | catalinmoraru0 -
Google not indexing my website
Hi guys, We have this website http://www.m-health-expo.nl/ but it is not indexed by google. In webmaster tools google says that it can not fetch the site due to the robots.txt but i do not see any faults in it. http://www.m-health-expo.nl/robots.txt Do you see something strange, it really bothers me.
Technical SEO | | RuudHeijnen0 -
If my home page never shows up in SERPS but other pages do, does that mean Google is penalizing me?
So my website I do local SEO for, xyz.com is finally getting better on some keywords (Thanks SEOMOZ) But only pages that are like this xyz.com/better_widgets_ or xyz.com/mousetrap_removals Is Google penalizing me possibly for some duplicate content websites I have out there (working on, I know I know it is bad)...
Technical SEO | | greenhornet770 -
Google Alerts almost never alerts me to my own pages being added.
Hello All, So i have a fairly decent blog http://www.symbolphoto.com/bl*g/ * replace with o. However, i'm posting to it once/twice a week and i never ever see in my google alerts my pages being included. I do include my search terms in my pages "Bston Wedding Photgrapher" yet, my page is never included. What on earth am i doing wrong? Any advice would be greatly appreciated! -Brendan
Technical SEO | | symbolphoto0 -
What happens to content under a category page that is not indexed?
We are reevaluating our URL structure. We have a flat architecture but would like to add subfolders per recommendations here and elsewhere. Some of our category pages are ad heavy/content light so we have them no indexed. We do have lots of quality content on the site that we would like to put under some of these keyword categories. Should we leave it flat? If Google does not see that category page then there will be no link from the homepage to the content page? Now: homepage/content-page Proposed: homepage/category/content-page (category is not indexed)
Technical SEO | | hoch0 -
Over 1000 pages de-indexed over night
Hello, On my site (www.bridgman.co.uk) we had a lot of duplicate page issues as reported by the Seomoz site report tool - this was due to database driven URL strings. As a result, I sent an excel file with all the duplicate pages to my web developer who put rel canonical tags on what I assumed would be all the correct pages. I am not sure if this is a coincidence, or a direct result of the canonical tags, but a few days after (yesterday) the amount of pages indexed by google dropped from 1,200 to under 200. The number is still declining, and other than the canonical tags I can't work out why Google would just start de-indexing most of our pages. If you could offer any solutions that would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Robert.
Technical SEO | | 87ROB0
