Inner pages of a directory site wont index

[linklander]

I have a business directory site thats been around a long time but has always been split into two parts, a subdomain and the main domain. The subdomain has been used for listings for years but just recently Ive opened up the main domain and started adding listings there.

The problem is that none of the listing pages seem to be betting indexed in Google. The main domain is indexed as is the category page and all its pages below that eg /category/travel but the actual business listing pages below that will not index. I can however get them to index if I request Google to crawl them in search console.

A few other things:

I have nothing blocked in the robots.txt file

The site has a DA over 50 and a decent amount of backlinks

There is a sitemap setup also

any ideas?

[Tenlo]

Do you have the links set to your listings set to nofollow or the actual listing pages set to noindex? Are their canonicals set on them pointing back to a main page?  There are a number of technical reasons that could cause this problem, but it is hard to say without seeing the site or code.

[linklander]

Hi Michael,

Sorry for the delayed response, no the inner pages arent setup to be nofollowed or no indexed, they all have canonicals pointing back to themself which I think is correct right?

[linklander]

..and actually just done another check and it seems that 5/6 of the most recent listings are all indexed fine and this is without me doing anything, I have no idea why one of them isnt though, nothing is different on that page plus its the oldest out of the 6 and all of them are featured and linked to from the homepage so page rank should be flowing directly to them...

[CraigBradford]

Hi Mark,

What have you done with all the old content on the sub-domain? Is the plan to move everything to a sub-folder or are you going to have some in both places? Also, is the content on the sub-folder different to the sub-domain or are you just moving content?

Craig

[linklander]

Hi Craig,

All the old content is still on the sub-domain, none of this content is on the new domain though so there shouldnt be duplicate content issues.

Im not sure tbh, probably leaving the old sub domain as is, already I redirect the sign-up/submisisons page to the new domain so new content will go there.

I should add that the sub-domain is hosted on a different server.

I had forgotten about this thread actually and just done a quick check and it seems that all but 1-2 recent postings are indexed now so Im guessing it was just taking some time for Google to crawl the site properly?

[CraigBradford]

Great! I'll mark this as resolved then.

Craig