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    • MirandaP
      MirandaP last edited by

      I have created a site structure like this:

      domain/for-sale/brand

      domain/for-sale/brand-model

      domain/for-sale/brand-model/pg1

      domain/for-sale/brand-model/pg2

      domain/for-sale/brand-model/pg3 etc....

      I cannot understand why the domain/for-sale/brand-model does not seem to be indexed, yet the domain/for-sale/brand-model/pg6 is?

      This is a new site, but I cannot understand why this URL would be indexed without the others...

      Any ideas?

      My home pages has links to the domain/for-sale/brand, this page has links to domain/for-sale/brand-model1, domain/for-sale/brand-model2 etc, each of these pages have links to domain/for-sale/brand-model/pg1, domain/for-sale/brand-model/pg2 etc...

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      • KevinBudzynski
        KevinBudzynski last edited by

        Did you add a sitemap? If you do have a sitemap with these pages (and if everything is correct) give it some time.

        If the pages are dynamically generated, and no links to these pages, the bots will not find them (or at least not very easily).

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        • Olaf
          Olaf last edited by

          Google f.e. will not crawl every page of your site. In fact, they may become aware of pages that they choose not to crawl because they are not likely to be important enough to return in a search result. Beacuse you have a new site, you need time and backlinks. If your content is unique, and when you get some strong relevant backlinks, more pages will be indexed soon.

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          • MirandaP
            MirandaP @Olaf last edited by

            It is an old site that just has a new design and structure. There are lots of search terms for these pages. I just don't understand why page 6 of search results would be indexed when page 1, 2, 3... are not.

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            • AJPro
              AJPro last edited by

              Have you tried to search for a term on one of those not listed pages? Perhaps they are just far back in the search result?

              Did you try to submit the url with WMT to have it indexed faster?

              Do you have any old urls you can do 301 redirects from to the new not listed pages?

              Did you as Kevin suggested submit a sitemap?

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              • MirandaP
                MirandaP @AJPro last edited by

                I have search for the actual URL and it is not coming up in google.

                I have submitted a site map including all URLs in WMT

                Any similar pages that were there before have been 301'd

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                • xoffie
                  xoffie last edited by

                  Think you have to throw a sitemap up and do some social bookmarking and just wait. I know its infuriating esp if you've worked on site that index the same day.

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                  • Olaf
                    Olaf @MirandaP last edited by

                    When you're sure the page/ pages is/are accessible (no noindex 🙂 )

                    and there is unique, text on the pages

                    and your pagerank >0

                    Google will index the page sooner or later. A good backlink or some social media posts can help.

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