Pages un-indexed in my site

[abernatj]

My current website www.energyacuity.com has had most pages indexed for more than a year. However, I tried cache a few of the pages, and it looks the only one that is now indexed by Goggle is the homepage. Any thoughts on why this is happening?

[tylerfraser]

Check your robots.txt file to make sure you didn't disallow anything.

Check to make sure you didn't put a canonical tag on all your pages to point to your homepage.

I looked at your cache and you have 41 pages: http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.energyacuity.com%2F&pws=0&hl=en&num=10

[AdamThompson]

OK, here is what I see:

1. You don't have a robots.txt file, so it's not that

2. As Tyler mentioned, you have quite a few pages indexed: http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aenergyacuity.com&num=100 although most seem to be in the Newsletter subdirectory. THe main pages of your site don't appear to be indexed.

3. I checked several pages of your site and found no meta tags that could be causing the issue.

4. Your links are not nofollow, so it's not that.

One possibility is that Google just hasn't gotten around to indexing the pages yet, perhaps because of your site's low backlinks/PageRank. Are you sure your entire site used to be indexed but no longer is?

[tylerfraser]

This is also a bad url format: http://www.energyacuity.com/Newsletter/Report.aspx?id=f974a1bf8f4b490a918c58c59750aa49&cid=ade05d15b4334aa9a6aa8974f6058e7f

They are dynamic and I have had a bunch of caching issues with this kind of url: http://www.seomoz.org/q/never-crawled

Although google says that dynamic urls are okay: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/dynamic-urls-vs-static-urls-the-best-practice-for-seo-is-still-clear

There's still huge issues with them.

[abernatj]

Thanks Tyler, you helped me figure it out...I had canonical tags on all the pages!! I just deleted them and republished so I'm hoping that will solve the issue. Thank you for your help!

[AdamThompson]

Yeh, that would do it if all the pages had tags saying the homepage was the canonical url!

Apparently I either didn't notice them, or you had already deleted them when I looked at your page.