Small % of pages indexed by G

[BigChrisUk01]

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Hi,

I have been checking my webmaster stats and have looked at the pages indexed from the sitemap. 23 pages out of 143 have been indexed.

My site is quite new I have only been working on it for 4 months in anger and a large portion of pages are new and only been about for a few weeks.

Is there something I am missing in not getting the pages indexed by G?

Any help would be appreciated.

Chris.

[ambi4681]

I shouldn't worry too much - Googlebot does take its time. Google don't promise to index every page anyway. If you use webmaster tools I assume you have given the big G a sitemap to chew on?

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Ambi

[Dazza30]

I have a site which is 2 years old and has the same amount of pages as your site, currently google has indexed 85 pages.

Ive noticed the amount of indexed pages fluctuates over time, so dont worry about it to much be patient.

[BigChrisUk01]

Thanks. Yep I have a sitemap which is generated each time I change the site as it is a Wordpress plugin.

[HoTMeLter]

In my experience the pages indexed grows with your inbound links. The more steady links you have coming in over time gives your site a little more authority and hence more pages are actually listed in the index.

This however is not the only factor; as you have WP installed, write an article a day for 20 days - you will see nothing for a week or so but then pages listed will increase every few days. As an example I did this for 40 days and my pages increased by 20 HOWEVER the pages once again reduced once Google realised I had stopped regularly adding content a week or so later.

To summarise, more incoming links and regular content will help increase your indexed pages.

[BigChrisUk01]

Thanks 20 articles wow that must be heavy going?

I have been focusing on datafeeds and generating data tables automatically so have let the writing go a bit. When I created my website I wanted to provide something of value not just tables of data, so the content and writing part is important to me but I do find it hard to write.

Did you do a writing course or is it just practise?

I have yet to sell a single phone and grow worried about being kicked from the programs I am signed up with. But I have found building these sites takes a long time so hopefully I will be given time!

Thanks again.

Chris.

[moredial]

Don't worry about being kicked out of any affiliate programme. That has only happened to me with a few merchants and that was because they decided to only use 'super affiliates'.

It can take 6 to 12 months for a new site to start performing well in the search engines. Datafeeds are very useful but because they produce pages that are so similar to many other sites produced using the same datafeeds you should not be relying on those pages being indexed nor to provide many direct hits from search engines.

Pages which you write yourself are far more likely to be indexed and therefore bring visitors to your site. Writing articles is hard and if you are looking to sell phones you need to offer your visitors a reason to buy the phone from you and not the thousands of other sites selling the same phone and package. Another 'negative' is that the networks often offer packages which are more attractive than the many reseller merchants in the aff networks, so consider adding aff links where you are paid a small commission for sending visitors to the network site in addition to datafeed links offering the sale commissions from the resellers.

[HoTMeLter]

I use a good content writer I know...

[BigChrisUk01]

Another thing that really bugs is not having minutes and texts in the feeds and cr@p data. It seems a lot of work to display their data for deals that are not as good as what is on offer on their sites or in their stores.

But I suppose thats "WELCOME TO BEING AN AFFILIATE"!