Geolocation and Indexing

[bubliki]

Hi all,

Our company owns site that have over 5 millions pages in Google index. We are locating in German, but our business aimed to US market.

So, recently I checked index of our site using region targeting in US and there were only 150k of pages, but when I checked targeting in German there were almost 5 billion pages.

Our server/IP locating in US, all the backlinks are from US sites.

So, why there it is only small part of the site indexed in US?

Regards,

Dmitry

[RyanKent]

Our company owns site that have over 5 billion pages in Google index.

In order to help you, some specifics would be needed. What is the URL of the site?

Off the top of my head I would think Amazon.com is one of the biggest sites around and they have around 320 million pages indexed. The largest forum site in the world has about 16 million pages indexed by Google.

The only site I can think of with billions of indexed pages would be a scraper or other form of content manipulation website.

You mentioned you are located in Germany so clearly your pages are going to be considered most relevant there. If you wish to be more relevant to US sites, the content would need to be presented in US English, use English measurements, currency, references, etc. You would desire links from US sites as well. You could go into Google WMT and set US as your preferred country, but that would mean you would lose a significant amount of your German indexing.

Also consider the US has fully implemented Panda. It is coming to Germany but has not been implemented there yet (to the best of my knowledge, I could be mistaken). If you have a billion or more pages, I am going to speculate a huge percentage of pages are duplicated both internally to your site, and externally to the internet. If that is the case, the number of indexed pages will take a huge hit.

If your site is deemed untrustworthy due to scraped content, your entire site may be de-indexed until the issue is resolved.

[bubliki]

Sorry, that was my mistake, I meant 5 million pages.

Unfortunately I can't name the domain name. Our site is 100% US based, with English content. I'm asking for is there some other issues (not Panda, content, etc.), that can cause the situation with regional indexation.

[RyanKent]

What exact do you mean by "when I checked targeting in German there were almost 5 billion pages"? I know you are referring to "million" but how did you arrive at that number?

Other things to check:

• submit an updated sitemap to Google. How many pages show in the site map?

• what type of navigation does your site offer? Is all of the navigation visible in HTML?

• some sites offer dozens of versions of the same page. A print-friendly version, sorted ascending by price, sort descending by price, sort by size and many other properties. Each sort is a different page on your site. You can have a site with 150k worth of canonical pages, but 5 million actual pages. Google will not list the duplicate pages.