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djl · 04-29-2006, 07:51 AM

I have a weird situation going on with google. When I do a site:my-url
I find that google is only showing a small portion of my pages. And some pages that have a PR3 or PR4 don't show up at all.

Any one else seeing this?

How can a page an a good PR but not show as indexed in google? Does that make any sense?

LVH · 04-30-2006, 08:24 PM

Have you tried to point some links to those interior pages? Also it sounds like to me and I am no expert that there is something google doesnt like about those pages to not index them. Have you seen any of those pages not in the index, in the supplimental results?

Try submitting a couple of those pages to google and watch your logs to see if the googlebot visits those. If it does and the pages are not indexed, it would suggest to me that there is something google doesnt like about them.

djl · 04-30-2006, 09:09 PM

Do you mean point some links to the interior pages from my home page? Actually as I take a closer look, the pages that google is showing with the site: command are only those that are linked from my homepage. This is a small % of my pages. I have many pages off pages, etc.

My site just under went a huge modification in terms of beautification (new format, template, css, rss, etc.) The navigational structure also changed. Could this just be normal for what has taken place with my site? Also, I regularly submit the google sitemap. Isn't that the same thing as you mention submiting to google?

I only see a very few old pages in the supplemental results. All of my pages have very unique content. I pay people to write for me. Nothing is ever copied. Plus I checked all my links to be sure they are not bad neighborhoods. I regularly do that too. I never do any hidden links. What could google not like? There's not much similar content either. All the pages are different.

Could we have broken something that google needs to be able to traverse my site correctly? Any thoughts on that or anything else. I am not sure if this is just normal or if I need to be concerned.

LVH · 05-01-2006, 01:25 AM

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My site just under went a huge modification in terms of beautification (new format, template, css, rss, etc.) The navigational structure also changed.

I am going to assume you didnt change any of the urls for your existing pages.

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I regularly submit the google sitemap. Isn't that the same thing as you mention submiting to google

Yes if you submit to sitemaps then it will help google index those pages. I am sorry but I dont remember your site. Is it a advanced access site? I do not use google sitemap but its my understanding that you have to give each page a rank so to speak of its importance. If this is so maybe you havent given those other pages enough weight in sitemap to tell google they are important.

Do you also have a sitemap on your site? If so do you link to your sitemap from your homepage?

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I take a closer look, the pages that google is showing with the site: command are only those that are linked from my homepage. This is a small % of my pages. I have many pages off pages, etc.

it could be a number of things. Maybe unfriendly urls, no links pointing to those pages from an already indexed page. I would suggest maybe creating a sitemap and placing that link on your homepage and also listing the sitemap in a directory to maybe get google to visit that page from the directory and hopefully getting them to visit each of those pages to index.

There is some problem however. Whether it be google just hasnt found them because of site structure or something else. I would maybe also suggest looking at your site structure to see how it navigates to those pages that are not indexed.

mavahntooth · 05-01-2006, 02:47 AM

i guess it is not cached yet because you create a new design.

just wait a while and let them cache your pages.

djl · 05-01-2006, 11:58 AM

I do have a sitemap on my homepage. Is there a right and wrong way to do one? If you have time, maybe you can go take a look around and let me know if you see anything I may be missing. I didn't change any of my urls. Maybe just one or two by mistake.

www.lipplyrealestate.com

I would appreciate any and all comments. Thanks!!!

mavahntooth · 05-02-2006, 01:50 AM

imho your site has no problems at all.

djl · 05-02-2006, 04:31 PM

well, thanks very much, I will try to calm down.

djl · 05-03-2006, 07:56 PM

I think I found something very related to what I have been experiencing. I think something is going on with google.

http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum30/34055-1-10.htm

hbnathan · 10-28-2006, 05:55 PM

Hi, I am curious about what finally happened.
How is the situation at this time.
I have a problem with Google indexing some of the pages spidered and cached in May 2006 and ignoring their now modified versions.

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