my site is www. active gamez . com I submitted my sitemaps to Google Webmaster Tools with 64,000 urls. It says they indexed 13,000 so far. when I type in site: "www. active gamez . com" I see almost 4,000 results. This was once 6,000, - 8,000, - 9,000 - 12,000, and now its back to 4,000. When will they index more pages? What exactly is going on? I'm confused. I want them to index all my games or else it's just not worth adding new ones. I see so many sites having 38,000 pages indexed and they don't even have as many pages as mine and havent even been online as long as me, whats wrong here? please help! Also, is this true? - Someone once told me that they index pages and then start over again indexing new ones but don't show the old ones but still have them. Please help, thank you!
Not every page gets indexed and they defiantly all don't get indexed the first 5 min they are created. SEO takes time, be patient.
How long does it take to index? i submitted mine too and my domain, watchgoodeats.com is yet to appear in google after 4 days...
my site is over 2 years old... these answers are not helping... sorry and thank you for your responses
It might help to actually get some backlinks so search spiders find you. Social bookmark and get some quality/valuable backlinks from related sites and you may actually see some improvement. That's just a LITTLE help, there is more methods but that should help some.
i have 3 blogs....only one of them are active and the other 2 are inactive! GOOGLE indexed both the two inactive blogs ....!!!! BUt GOOOOOOGLE didnt indexed my active blog!!!! DONT KNoW WHAT THE Hell is GOING ON!!!
Thus this changes since you notice them eventually affects your organic traffic? Google probably going through many test and changes, they even limiting showing this kind of results (as well as link:domain.com command) for some reasons like for competitors to not see all "where this site's backlinks came from". Keep observing and see what experts say with this, keep ourselves updated.
It's almost impossible for google to index all of urls that you have submitted to them, in case of huge list of pages. Very rare to see google index 100% of urls that we submitted through sitemap.
WishBone, Thank you for your kind response, I agree. Although some younger sites have 38,000 urls indexed and much younger than mine and do not even have that many pages, which I just don't understand. I'm sure eventually they will show all of mine, afterall, I do have 64,000 pages and counting... Once I've seen that they had indexed 12,000 but it went back to 4,000... My SEO expert tells me that they still have those pages but start over gathering new ones, but why aren't they showing them all like other sites? Google Webmaster Tools Sitemaps shows they have indexed 14,000 out of 64,000 which is good but I guess they don't show it with site:www.domain.com, which is currently showing only 4,000. Anyway, as I said... why aren't they showing all indexed pages like all the other sites? Maybe it's because I have a duplicate page problem which is getting fixed soon. I hope that's the reason... or it could be because I don't have a PR. As for not having a PR, it could be because I have more than 100 links on my homepage, my PR was removed 3 weeks after the last-last PR update right after I exchanged 30 links (which now I have created a links page)... Or it could be because I have TOO MANY duplicate pages with different URLS caused by a inter-exchangable 'search-results' and 'keywords tag' MOD which is getting FIXED ... I'm sure that's much different than duplicate pages such as PHPSESSID's, etc. which they do not penalize for. (which in my case could look like I'm doing something manipulative on purpose) But either way I'm still TOP50 for "free online games" which means I'm still doing great in the SERPS. Hopefully everything works out! Interesting stuff... Thank you!
Is it possible that you have inadvertently/accidentally blocked the bots from accessing the pages/URLs; via the robots meta tag (noindex) via the robots.txt file (Disallow via http headers via security/blocking scripts ??? Is it possible that the same content is being indexed from elsewhere, and thus being filtered out of the SERPs?
The one question I have, did you buy some kind of database to build that site with? Or, is it original content that you made? I know you did not make the games, but what about everything else? One problem with indexing pages is duplicate content. If there are already 100 pages just like yours indexed with google, then your page might not get indexed and listed. Plus, your pages are taking a long time to load and I think I even got a pop-up on your site.
This is all my original content. By duplicate content I meant my own pages having a duplicate content problem, but it's getting fixed, not copies of other websites. And pop-ups are fine, tons of site shave great PR's and thousands of pages indexed. Mine is set to a 12 hour period which is very friendly.
Frankly that is quite a bit of content, I would give Google time to sort through that many URL's. The more link power you have, the more willing Google will be to index it all.