OK, this is my situation. I have a site which is 8 months old site, PR4, quite a few quality links, no javascript on links, optimized all on page elements, adding new fresh content weekly, etc... But i have been only indexed on my index page now for the last few months. Seems to be nothing i can do to change this. Got so fed up with it i have even spent the last week, changing my entire site to be table-less css, and making sure every page validates.. The new table-less validating website did in fact see a rise in visits and visit frequency from googlebot. Awstats reports for this month so far (11 days) googlebot has hit 1291 times, with 10 hits on robots.txt. (likely to be up from 1710+27 for the whole of last month) From google sitemaps, googlebot appears to be hitting my homepage every day or so. Page cache in google is up to date.. No errors reported in google sitemaps. Then why oh why is the rest of my site not being indexed?? Could i somehow have been penalized by google? If so my is my index page still listed and why is googlebot still visiting so frequently.. Any ideas what could be the problem, and please no: 'wait a few days' etc. I have already been waiting and trying to work through this for nearly 4 months now.
This has been a common problem with a lot of websmasters, including one of my sites that despite having unique content and listed in DMOZ has is inner pages dropped from the index. (My inner pages showed at first and then dropped). I suspect that it is due to some form of new filter to limit listed pages on google so that they can actually limt their costs in terms of new data centers, storage etc. Did your pages show at first? Is your content unique?
Yes, i had other pages listed about 4 months ago.. and also have unique content . Just the thing i can't understand is that i have other sites, (of lesser quality), which are the same age, less links, less traffic, less new content added.. That have many indexed pages and have pages updated quite regularly. I just don't get how/why google is 'picking on' some sites and not others. Doesn't seem to make any sense. Why index some and not others, and what is used in this decision (from my experience with my sites, it seems to have nothing to do with on-page optimization, backlinks, age of site, content, etc??) However, i can see that after reading just about every post on the matter at DP. there just doesn't seem to be any rational answer . Was just wondering if anyone was actually able to do anything to change it.. apart from waiting..
How long has your new coded website been up? This sometimes happens on Google, and I honestly dont know why, I had a website that had around 20K indexed pages on Google, around 4 months ago Google dropped almost all of them and the site was down to ~200 indexed pages, now its back up to 12K pages. I have no explanation for this other than being a change in their algorithm, a certain filter added/tested maybe.
Yes this has happened to a lot of people including myself. Google dropping pagerank for all or most of the subpages of a site. I know google is having a storage problem so they might be dropping off pages because they don't have enough server space. I'm not kidding about that. Search google for "google's servers full" One thing I noticed with your site, and I just assumed you are refering to your feed directory is that one, it's a directory, two is that it's less then a year old, and 3 you don't really have unique content. Also you are pointing to your directory from your homepage with a bunch of different keywords and multiple times at that. Google I think would see that as link spam, but that's just my opinion. Anyway, I don't know if that's the site you were asking about, I just looked at your sig.
Had a bit of a breakthrough. After 4 months with only my index page indexed i managed to get another page listed. Submitted my rss feed for the news section of my site, to a few sites. Also put the feed on my yahoo, my msn and my google homepage. So google is finally showing more than one page (even if it is just 2 ). My index page and the rss feed. Hopefully more will be following.