Only 4 of my pages have been indexed out of 64 in total
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Hi there, I submitted a sitemap for a new 64 page website 6 weeks ago and only a few pages have been indexed.
The website shows in Google search but with a large amount of information on the website it should show higher.
I have fetched and rendered 30 plus pages on the 9th September and others on the 16th September, today is the 5th October but in Webmaster tools, Google only acknowledge 1 page as indexed.
I have checked the robots txt file which shows it is allowed.
There are no messages for problems with crawl and no errors showing.
The domain is www.urbaneforms.com .
Can you offer a suggestion as to why we are not being indexed?
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All the pages on your site are canonicalized to the home page. So basically you're telling Google to index the entire site as one giant page, all content aggregated onto the home page.
You need to either canonical pages to themselves or rationalize when you want the content of one or more pages to be treated as one.
Here's the Moz page describing what is canonicalization and best practices.
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