Google indexing

[renamecor]

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Newbie so don't flame me for my stupidity (please).

Site is indexed by Google, Yahoo etc. etc.

Have a google sitemap as well as links from other sites to many of my pages.

However, when I check on google using 'link:www.etc.etc.etc....'

It shows only the index page and no others, all the pages are interlinked with each other.

I have even used the tool within the googlesitemaps and it also shows that only my first page is indexed with them.

Whats this all about then !!!!!!

[steveaich]

If it's a new site, just be patient, if your homepage is being indexed, the rest will appear in due course. It's probably worth updating the homepage on a regular basis to give google a reason to revisit. If you post the URL i'm sure someone will be along in a minute who can tell you if there are any major problems with your site.

[zinc]

Agreed.

If it is a new site i.e. a few months old DO NOT panic. This literally just happened to me. For me, google did this and about 2-3 weeks later it started to crawl deeper I now have around 20 pages indexed. Now I just need it to go 1 level deeper which, I am guessing will happen soon.

Try and get some quality backlinks with decent PR (5+) this will ensure your site gets crawled more frequently and will also help your own PR.

Not to piss on the fire.... but you could also have picked up a penalty what's your web address?

Hope this helps.

[sem4u]

The link command on Google only shows a sample of the sites linking in.

Do you mean to use the site:www.domain.com command to see which pages have been indexed by Google?

[renamecor]

Yes site: not link: as I previously posted.

[ceetee]

Is it a site with hundreds of pages ? That's suposed to slow the indexing by Google. My last small websites with half a dozen pages have all been fully indexed by Google and MSN within a week - Yahoo is another matter.

Duplicate content has that effect too. Or maybe it needs more time, you didn't say how long it's been published.

[shyguy0507]

Game Showcase is in this phase at the moment - on msn almost every page is indexed and it visits the site every day.

Google however has only indexed the homepage - granted it's indexed it twice for no reason ('/' and 'index.php') strange

[renamecor]

Seems like just a waiting game then, cheers for the replies.

I will get some stuff updated on the index page to freshen it up a bit.

[deano6410]

I wouldn't worry about it. It is perfectly normal for only the homepage to show for the first few months.

The only way around this is by getting a LOT of quality links.

[Sandis]

Google will show only little %, maybe 10-15% of links. Use Yahoo for this purpose.

site: for showing indexed pages

link: for links to that page

linkdomain: works in yahoo, links total to the domain;

maybe you think competitor has 10 links to homepage, but when run linkdomain: it turns out they have 5000 links to some internal pages. So go figure what do you need to do to reverse engineer a site.