My site has over 2,000 pages but only 130 are indexed

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    How come that is? I have a anime forum that has been up about a month now and my question to you guys is since the forum has over 2,000 posts on it how is it that only 130 urls are showing as indexed in Google webmasters?

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    bosnianguru, Sep 15, 2012 IP
  2. DanWestern

    DanWestern Peon

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    #2
    It could be because of your sitemap, or maybe Google just hasn't quite indexed them all yet but are getting around to it.
     
    DanWestern, Sep 15, 2012 IP
  3. rama378

    rama378 Greenhorn

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    #3
    Google takes time to index all your web pages or maybe your website is new.
     
    rama378, Sep 15, 2012 IP
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    #4
    just wait until Google index them all
     
    kukote, Sep 15, 2012 IP
  5. giorgioarmani

    giorgioarmani Well-Known Member

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    #5
    Add a sitemap...

    Go to Webmaster Tools...

    Add your site...

    Submit the sitemap....
     
    giorgioarmani, Sep 15, 2012 IP
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  6. bosnianguru

    bosnianguru Member

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    sitemap has been there from day one and yes my site is only 1 month old could that be the reason?
     
    bosnianguru, Sep 15, 2012 IP
  7. dudeseo

    dudeseo Well-Known Member

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    #7
    just check about no index tag, that too may cause problem:)
     
    dudeseo, Sep 15, 2012 IP
  8. lightlysalted

    lightlysalted Active Member

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    #8
    It's pretty common for not all pages to be indexed particularly with forum based sites. Google will start to index more of your pages over time. A month isn't a long time.
     
    lightlysalted, Sep 15, 2012 IP
  9. lifeplayer

    lifeplayer Notable Member

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    #9
    It need some time. If you have more quality backlink to help in crawling, the faster you get indexed
    By the way, the uniqueness of the post/thread is also one of the factor to get indexed
     
    lifeplayer, Sep 15, 2012 IP
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    hearthackerpk Well-Known Member

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    #10
    try to create strong back links to your remaining pages.
     
    hearthackerpk, Sep 15, 2012 IP
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    cujo Well-Known Member

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    #11
    create sitemap
     
    cujo, Sep 16, 2012 IP
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    JoshDylan Well-Known Member

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    I suggest re-submitting your site through tools like Attracta and rebuilding a complete sitemap and adding it to Google webmaster tools.
     
    JoshDylan, Sep 17, 2012 IP
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    WEBGEEKBOY Guest

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    #13
    must be a case of bad site map
     
    WEBGEEKBOY, Sep 18, 2012 IP
  14. webexpert2u

    webexpert2u Greenhorn

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    #14
    You can review your Robots.txt file.

    If there are some sections of your forum site which has been blocked through robots.txt then your indexing problem will remain forever untill you don't correct them.
     
    webexpert2u, Sep 19, 2012 IP
  15. bosnianguru

    bosnianguru Member

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    what could be the error with the sitemap? im using the built in sitemap option that comes with vbulletin
     
    bosnianguru, Sep 21, 2012 IP
  16. bosnianguru

    bosnianguru Member

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    check onces? whats that?
     
    bosnianguru, Sep 21, 2012 IP
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    May I have URL please ? Most of time it happen because of wrongly using canonical tag.
     
    imseo, Sep 21, 2012 IP
  18. oksteven

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    #18
    I have the same problem and it is still a mystery. I seems like google add a few pages of your websites whenever it feels want to. I wish they provide a better understanding.
     
    oksteven, Sep 21, 2012 IP
  19. bosnianguru

    bosnianguru Member

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    my site link is http://animeit.net, its strange because there are over 2000 posts on my forum but it only shows a little bit over 100 links in the sitemap, how is that?
     
    bosnianguru, Sep 21, 2012 IP
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    Sometimes Google isn't interested in indexing all forum posts. If you can just try to optimize inner linking. Check robots.txt file, check your meta, check if your links are dofollow.
     
    adbash, Sep 22, 2012 IP
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