Town and County pages taking months to index.

[Advantec]

Hi,

At http://www.general-hypnotherapy-register.com/regional-hypnotherapy-directory/ we have a load of town and county pages for all of the hypnotherapists on the site

a) I have checked all of these links and they are spiderable.

b) About a month back I noticed after the site changes, not entirely sure why, but the site was generating rogue pages, eg http://www.general-hypnotherapy-register.com/hypnotherapists/page/5/?town=barnsley instead of http://www.general-hypnotherapy-register.com/hypnotherapists/?town=barnsley

We have added meta no index, no follow to these rogue pages around 4 weeks ago..however these pages still have a google cache date of Oct 4th predating these meta changes

c) There are examples of the pages we do want, indexed, and ranking too on page 1, site:www.general-hypnotherapy-register.com/hypnotherapists

eg http://www.general-hypnotherapy-register.com/hypnotherapists/?town=ockham however these pages are few and far between, these have a recent google cache date of Nov 1

**d) **The xml sitemap has all of the correct URLS, but in webmaster tools, the amount of pages indexed has been stubbornly flat at 2800 out of 4400 for 4 weeks now

e) Query Paramaters: for ?town and ?county in webmaster tools, are set to Yes/Specifies

Would love any suggestions,

Thanks.

Mark.

[DarinPirkey]

Not 100% sure but those "rogue" pages look like pagination pages and no-indexing them could cause some issues.  They don't have any content on there so I am not sure.  Also, this is just correlation and I'm not saying its causation but Google+ links have indexed my sites extremely fast and the sites that utilize Google+ tend to have higher percentage of indexed pages.  Again, correlation not necessarily causation.

Search Engine Land had a good article on SEO problems with pagination here.