Hi, I'm getting a bit exasperated. My website http://www.themastercleaners.com only gets visits from google to the home page. I have spoken to the webdesigner about this and we moved a lot of the content to a style sheet. While MSN and Yahoo have listed the whole site, G will only visit the home page. Am I missing something? Also when I check for backlinks on G, I only get 1. It hasn't even indexed my DMOZ listing -- am I just being impatient? with thanks for any help Dan
You need to make sure you're linking well to internal pages. Posting a sitemap can help with this crawling.
Now, I have seen the "wedding dress" page getting indexed as well. Maybe it needs a little more time. Don't worry.
The first thing to be kept in mind is how much time you are giving the search engine to crawl your page.The age of the site is important if its a new site then give some time and it will be ok otherwise you have to look at the navigation links .. whether the internal links are working fine. Link building is a good idea till it is restricted to good neighbour and related site. I hope everything will be fine.
you may submit a sitemap check if you have an existing robots.txt file with "no follow" on your subdirectories, subpages. check if your meta "robots" indicates "no follow" word on your subdirectories, subpages.
Your menu is in javascript which the search engines can't read. The links at the bottom of the page are all dead. How can a search engine find the inner pages with no links to them? My advice is to sack your web designer and then install a search engine friendly menu using <noscript> tags.
Is it easy to change the menu to a <noscript> tags type menu? How come MSN and Yahoo have been able to index all the pages -- does the googlebot read web pages differently?
Google took a month to index the rest of my site, even though I submitted a sitemap and everything. It just takes a bit of time and patience. You should definitely follow everyone's advice on here, but I'm sure that with just a little more time they'll index the rest of your site.
Before building and submitting a sitemap to Google you need to look at how the bots see your site. If there are problems with the linkage on your site then you’ll only be making it easier for Google to see those problems. To look at your site using a bot I would recommend downloading the Gsitecrawler for free. This software will crawl your site and tell you which links need fixed. Every time you fix the links and upload the new pages run the software to crawl again until it reports no problems. Once you have all the problems solved use the Gsitecrawler to create a sitemap then submit it to Google, that’s if you want to use a Google sitemap. For now forget about MSN & Yahoo as their bots are not as sensitive as the Google bot but you can be sure they probably still have problems crawling the full site. I took the liberty of crawling your site and have attached the results, as you can see there are problems needing fixed. And as the others said, it can take time for Google to index a site.
Thanks very much for the info -- will pass details on to my web designer and hopefully we can sort this out. Many thanks again. Dan
Mostly, its a matter of time. Google doesnt deep crawl the site that easily. Typically, it indes the home page, then a few more pages and later deep crawl the site. It can take anytyhign between 1 -4 months. You need to be patient. Also its important to have a search engine friendly menu, as suggested.
Look at the cached version of your homepage to see how google sees it. The no script thing is easy. After your menu just add the following: <noscript> <a href="http://www.yoursite.com/page1.htm">Page 1</a><BR> <a href="http://www.yoursite.com/page2.htm">Page 2</a><BR> </noscript> Code (markup):
^ yup that's better put, on metas what i actually mean on the robots.txt is if you include the directory or page in the *disallow. sorry if the info's vague.