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    • inlinear
      inlinear last edited by

      Dear Community,

      on 27th of July I relaunched my own website and submitted the sitemap as well I send the index-page to crawl it including all linked pages. Already the next day the new pages have been indexed. Today I checked them manually if they have been indexed.

      The result is that 2 of 13 pages have not been indexed, here marked in bold:

      http://inlinear.com/
      http://inlinear.com/suchmaschinenoptimierung-online-marketing.php
      http://inlinear.com/design/
      http://inlinear.com/design/printmedien-gestaltung.php
      http://inlinear.com/design/corporate-design-und-corporate-identity.php
      http://inlinear.com/design/corporate-raum-design.php
      http://inlinear.com/webentwicklung/
      http://inlinear.com/virtueller-rundgang-360grad-fotografie.php
      http://inlinear.com/business-atlas-online-verzeichnis.php
      http://inlinear.com/baudokumentation-bauueberwachung.php
      http://inlinear.com/ueber-uns.php
      http://inlinear.com/blog/
      http://inlinear.com/kontakt/

      1. The page "/design/" (which is the index.php of this folder should be the main-page because its about WEB DESIGN.
        Should I create a copy and call it /design/web-design.php? May be Google prefers a meaningful URL than the index.php? So I put then a rel=canonical to web-design.php in my index.php?

      2. design/corporate-design-und-corporate-identity.php
        The URL is a little long, but this should not be the reason? Or might be a reason that another page which is still in the index, but not online anymore (even redirecting to /design/) is still more dominant? Strange.... orshould I simply wait a little or try submitting these to sites manually to google?

      3. When checking Google Webmasters Tools Google tells me that just 3 pages have been indexed.
        When I was checking which page is indexed or not I checked each URL with the site-search option:
        site:inlinear.com/pageX.php ... when Google shows this page, it was a sign that it was indexed but why webmasters tools show up only 3 pages? (see screenshot)

      Do you have any ideas?
      Thank You 🙂

      indexed.png

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      • MoosaHemani
        MoosaHemani last edited by

        Just went through your blog and everything seems to be fit on the code end... the thoughts you have mentioned in the pointers should not be implemented because the URL generation is correct and the URL is not at all too long!

        I believe give it a bit more time and may be it gets index! Plus also try to generate links and social shares to these pages and this will indicate Google about this page and it will index it accordingly!

        I believe you should give it a little more time plus social shares and some good quick links would accelerate the process!

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        • Saijo.George
          Saijo.George last edited by

          I think you might just need to wait it out. But you can always help they by using " Fetch as Google " from Google Webmaster tools

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          • KarlBantleman
            KarlBantleman last edited by

            I think it would be worth adding the "priority" attribute in your XML sitemap. That way you can tell Google which pages you want to be crawled as priority. Remember, Webmaster Tools is not a live update of what Google sees, in some instances, it can be a couple of weeks behind.

            Just looked to see if **http://inlinear.com/design/ **was cached and it was cached today about 5 hours ago.

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            • inlinear
              inlinear last edited by

              Thank you all 🙂

              Karl, yes thats right. I just picked these 2 pages and submitted them "fetch as google" and both pages have been indexed shortly after.

              Holger

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