Hi. We just changed our site from www.sitename.com to sitename.com. It's been more than 2 weeks and Google has only indexed about half our site (excluding the home page which is the main seo target). Any suggestions on moving it along faster? We've submitted the new url to webmaster, a new sitemap, and done a 301 redirect. Thanks.
Bookmark not only home but every page on several major bookmarking sites. Delicious, folkd, reddit and StumbleUpon are given, from my experience, the quickest results. Submit your feed on Feedage, Feedagg and Feedcat. There is another way to encourage fast indexing. It is the creation of. Quick index of links, and submit on web sites that bring statistics and information. This means that each query to our website and create a link directed towards her. With this one should be careful and not overdo it all at once.
if the site is large, it will just take some time. Google has to crawl billions of webpages and they do not stay on one site for long. The XML map is you best bet. PS. why go to the non-www version?
Im having the same problem, sites been in google for a few weeks now and i've submitted a sitemap only to have 4 URLS indexed. I've made other sites in the past though and i've come to figure that linking your pages from other sites tends to get them into google a lot faster.
I think you should update your sitemap and resubmit it to webmasters tool. Then Ping your website. It will help you.
Any specific reason, you changed your domain i.e. removing www ?? XML sitemap can be a good thing, and as you already using 301 redirection, that's good as well. I think you should wait some more...
Inner linking will certainly help your site but you can't force Google to totally index your site, they have the process if you meet the requirements. Also Google don't usually show the exact number of indexed pages they've indexed, even on GWT...
@launchplanet give it some time and all your pages will get indexed. it would help to build an up-to-date sitemap.