Google: 5,000 URLs submitted, 17 URLs indexed

Hi, I was just wondering why Google is not indexing my site, although I submitted by sitemap about a month ago. I have changed my subdomain name recently... could this be the problem?

http://did-you-know.jbdirectory.com/Did_You_Know

 

I recommend to check if you have blocked any Google Ip's . Use the Google sitemaps or webmaster tool to investigate further.

 

Hi AlphaNine_Vini, thanks for the reply. I checked in Webmaster tool and there is no message from them. Is there a way to contact them directly?

 

Have you remove old domain or not from webmaster tools. I think your all pages are indexed. Please check again in google.
hxxp://did-you-know.jbdirectory.com

The above link is really sub domain. And from my side , i am able to see many pages.

 

Yes, I did remove the old subdomain from Webmaster Tools. What I see in my Webmaster Tools is:
5,000 URLs submitted
30 URLs indexed

and also:
URL Errors
1 Access denied
178 Not found

I just checked Google search and it shows 14 pages, i.e. what it said earlier before it increased to 30 URLs indexed.

 

I want to know what is your exact sub domain. I am confuse about your link which have you posted.

 

Hi Humtuma, my main domain is hxxp://jbdirectory.com and my subdomain is hxxp://did-you-know.jbdirectory.com

 

This domain has been already indexed too many pages. Kindly recheck again.
site:hxxp://did-you-know.jbdirectory.com

 

The main domain has no articles. All articles are in different subdomains. Problem is only this particular subdomain is having a problem, probably because I changed its name. I am now "fetching" it one by one, using the "fetch" function under crawl. Apparently, it increased the indexing from a stagnant 14 to 30 at the moment.

 

You should have to wait some time google takes time instead of fetching one by one. If you really need fastly index. Ping is the best option but do not ping too much otherwise your website gonna banned.

 

Hi Humtuma, thanks for your advice. Ping means using the "ping" command, right? If I just check whether my webpage is indexed in Google Search, it is not considered as "ping", right?

 

No i am not talking that command , i am talking about the ping i.e uses for submitting the website. Just google it.

 

make sure your content is good, usually if content is bad quality google not index it fast

 

I am using "Fetch as Google" and it is indexing. But I have to do it one by one, which is very tedious because I have more than a thousand articles. I suspect it's because I changed the subdomain name. Google has a function to change the domain name but not subdomain.

 

I tried to search on google seems your site has been indexed by google

 

Hi XCorner, thanks for taking the trouble. My Webmasters Tool says: 5,000 URLs submitted, 294 URLs indexed. I don't have problems with my other websites except this one, probably because I changed the subdomain names a few times.

 

Also there could be reason like not enough backlinks to the new sub-domains.

 

Did u put any any sitemap link for your thousand pages. As per i know, there is a limitation for 500 pages in site map.

 

Linda, I did. You are right about 500 pages in site map, but I did a little trick. I change the url to 5,000 and it works for my other sites, but not this one. I wonder why. Now, how did I did that little trick? I simply changed the url from "httx://did-you-know.jbdirectory.com/index.php?title=Special:GoogleSitemap&limit=500&offset=0" to "httx://did-you-know.jbdirectory.com/index.php?title=Special:GoogleSitemap&limit=5000&offset=0". (NOTE: The post cannot accept "http", so I changed it to "httx".)

You can try this and see if it also works for you.

 

Is the problem solved or it still there. Check if you have blocked any of Google crawler IP address. If you block there IP in .htaccess or within your script. Then Google will not be able to crawl your website. Other possibility is check your robot.txt if you have disallowed Google crawler.