I've just launched a large site (4,017 pages of quality, unique content) around 2 weeks ago. At present I've got 25 pages indexed, however at this rate it would take about 5 years to get fully indexed. I've done what I believe to be the right things - submitting to CSS galleries has gotten me a number of genuine, quality links (one PR8 for example) however the index rate still seems slow. Any tips for getting a large site indexed as swiftly as possible? (I'd post a link but I'm not sure if a. If I can OR b. If I'd be breaking any rules).
Is your navigation pretty good on your website? Google should eventually crawl your website, or at least has mine. I've just sent backlinks to my main page and have eventually found my sub-pages indexed. Granted, i've never released a website with that many pages. Is your content fresh and unique? This might play some factor too, I don't know.
Content is all fresh and unique - navigation structure is pretty straightforward too, even with it being a large site.
Get mroe link juice and trust, the more you have the more pages get indexed. Make pages as unique from eachother as possible.
Find a sitemap creator. I did this with my site (18K+ pages) and it worked pretty well. Also, I do not know how your URL's are constructed, but I found that when I rewrote them, it helped out tremendously. Good luck
overdrive, I do indeed have both an HTML and XML sitemap (submitted to Google). URL-wise, everything is perfectly formatted with flat HTML pages - I don't think I've missed any 'technical' tricks.
Indexing a whole site can take time, from days to months. Google will ofcourse index you the homepage and probably the most important off pages, but if you have already done everything of the above mentioned, submiting sitemap to google, building few backlinks as a start, having good navigation, then the only thing you need to do is wait, wait, and wait. Patience is virtue.