Google indexed pages question

I went to uptimebot and entered my site and found that Google had only indexed only a couple hundred of my pages. The web site is a database of private schools and I have almost 30,000 pages on the site. The site has been up for almost 5 years. Can anyone tell me why the entire contents have not been indexed after so long? The website is listed in my profile.

 

Did You provide G a sitemap?

 

No I haven't done that yey. Do you think that will solve the problem?

 

I don't think so. I see two problems.

1. The pagerank of the internal pages I checked is 1 or 0. For a site that exists since 5 years, it means that Google does not consider these pages are important.

2. The pages are very similar. Google could even consider that the pages are so similar that it does not make sense to index them.

What can you do ? You can try the Google sitemap, but this does not address the problems I mentioned.

A few suggestions :
- Try to increase the original content of each page.
- Also try to shorten the distance (in number of clicks) between the deepest pages and the home page.
- Obtain more links to your site. External links to the internal pages could help also.

Jean-Luc

 

Ofz.

Jean-Luc: the topic is about indexed pages. If travisbickle's site is a database of private schools increase the original content of each page may be a little impracticable ;-)

Anyway I viewed that site and don't consider G could find tha pages as a too similar to each oder.

 

I went to Google direct and put in site:eschoolsearch.com schools and 36,200 pages came up so it appears that I was wrong and all the pages have been crawled and indexed. However, during a normal search only 400 come up so I think you guys are correct when you say that the pages are so similiar that Google thinks they are not worthy. I guess I could put a short description of the city on the top of the page. Any thoughts?

 

Maybe You're looking on the different DC's, isn't?

 

have you used smartpages in ur site

 

It should help. You could also ask the schools to provide you with a short description for publication on your site.

Happy new year!

Jean-Luc

 

No, I don't know what these are.

 

Maybe, but I checked more than once.

 

The point is to make url's of Your site search engines friendly. Try here: http://www.websitepublisher.net/article/search_engine_friendly_urls/

It's no matter if You've checked the same DC all the time ;-) Check it here: http://www.mcdar.net/GoogleUpdateRecord.htm