Hello, We completed a site, http://ettflorida.com, which validates valid XHTML, has a completel dynamic sitemap, and all of the pages are linked to within three clicks on the site. There's about 1200 pages in the site. Normally, Google would have had this whole thing indexed by now. I've had sites with over 3 million pages get indexed faster. Does anyone have any clue as to why google is taking its time with this site? Its been about 20 days and the indexing is about 200 pages. Thanks!
normally? there is nothing normal about the rate of indexing. There is no predicting how your site will get indexed...
200 pages out of 1200 for a valid, sitemap'd site in 20 days is not normal for me anyway. I've had 50+ sites in google with more pages than 1200 that got indexed much faster, every time.
Over the past 6 months or so I have noticed Google deindexing lots of pages especially from larger sites. They seem to be maintaining few pages per site in their index in general. It's almost as if the amount of content on the web is growing at such a high rate that they simply can't maintain as many pages/site as in the past. Get several backlinks from indexed URLs on other sites to each of those 1200 pages. That should greatly increase your sites total number of indexed pages.
Try using an xml sitemap, webmaster tools and submit them via the following: Ping Service: http://www.catanich.com/sitemap-ping-services.asp Robots.Txt: http://www.catanich.com/sitemaps-via-robots-txt.asp Note: You have a sitemap.php page but not an xml sitemap.
Build back lins from other sites indexed url's especially so that you get more and more pages indexed it works
build xml site map and submitt it. try to get back links from your indexing page then it ll work for you. yes its true as content is growing up so Google try to index worthy pages specially from site's that have no. of subpages. make your all pages worthy by adding some valueable content.
Does it really matter that the other pages haven't been indexed? Do you see a glass half full or half empty? Noobs are complaining they can't get their site indexed and you've got some pages indexed, so earn some money out of it, it just takes time for google to do their thing. And yeah, their algorithm keeps changing. So what used to work may not be working today.
you need an xml sitemap. Build one here: xml sitemaps That should help. But every site takes different amounts of time so there's no use judging it against anything else.