Certain Pages Not Being Indexed - Please Help

[CBuy]

We are having trouble getting a bulk of our pages indexed in google. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

The Following Page types are being indexed through escaped fragment:

http://www.cbuy.tv/#!

http://www.cbuy.tv/celebrity#!65-Ashley-Tisdale/fashion/4097-Casadei-BLADE-PUMP/Product/175199

<cite>www.cbuy.tv/celebrity/155-Sophia-Bush#!</cite>

However, all our pages that look like this, are not being indexed:

http://www.cbuy.tv/#!Type=Photo&id=b1d18759-5e52-4a1c-9491-6fb3cb9d4b95&Katie-Holmes-Hot-Pink-Pants-Isabel-Marant-DAVID-DOUBLE-BREASTED-Wool-COAT-Maison-Pumps-Black-Bag

[danatanseo]

Hi Mike,

I am not a developer, but I think the problem is the hashtag in your URL. This is a problem for search engines in that, anything following the "#" is completely ignored by search engines.

Depending on your platform, I would consider re-writing all of your URLs to omit that hashtag completely. Search engines (and humans!) can respond in unpredictable ways to anything other than alpha-neumeric characters. Then I would implement 301 redirects if necessary (depending on how old the site is and how many inbound links there are to each page).

I don't think that sitemap submission is even going to help right now because of the hashtag issue, but I'd love to hear from a developer on this for verification.

I hope this helps!

Dana

[CBuy]

Hello Dana,

Thanks for your reply.

We have thousands of #! pages being indexed. Googlebot is sent to our escaped fragment page through a redirect.  Our dynamic sitemap helped us get many pages indexed. However there are a subset of pages that google does not like at all and we cannot figure out why.  For example when you visit our homepage, http://www.cbuy.tv, then navigate through images in our carousel (each assigned a unique url) none of these pages are being indexed.

Mike

[danatanseo]

Hi Mike,

I am sure you've probably already barked up this tree, but do those pages contain 100% substantially unique content?

Also, have you had an SEO developer review your robots.txt and .htaccess files to make sure there isn't something it there preventing crawlers from having access?

Dana

[TakeshiYoung]

Where are these pages being linked from? If you want these pages indexed, you may want to try making them more prominent in your site's navigation and architecture. Listing them in a sitemap can help them get discovered by Google, but actually linking to them from your site will have much more impact.

Also, I notice that the site is only pagerank 2, and already has 5000+ pages indexed in Google. Google limits the number of pages it indexes for sites based on their pagerank, so you may want to consider improving your PR so Google indexes more pages from your site.

[CBuy]

Hi Takeshi,

We have a sitemap but also the pages are all interlinked.  I didn't know that google puts an upper-bound on indexing based on PR - that's interesting.

Since there is a black and white difference between a set of pages of a certain kind (zero of these pages are being indexed) I suspect there is some other issue.  Is it at all possible that google does not like the urls of these pages? :

http://www.cbuy.tv/#!Type=Photo&id=bcefa7c2-6aea-469d-b6c1-48e0fca2f23c&Nina-Dobrev-Michael-Kors-Gold-Sequin-Dress-Jimmy-Choo-Gold-Strappy-Sandals-H

1. does google not like the parameters?

2. should we reduce the length of our guid id number and move it to the end of the url?