Why is Google only indexing 3 of 8 pages?

[fasctimseo]

Hi everyone, I have a small 8 page website I launched about 6 months ago. For the life of me I can not figure out why google is only indexing 3 of the 8 pages. The pages are not duplicate content in any way. I have good internal linking structure. At this time I dont have many inbound links from others, that will come in time. Am I missing something here? Can someone give me a clue?

Thanks Tim

Site: www.jparizonaweddingvideos.com

[conquerapathy-64412]

Hi Tim,

The only thing I can figure is that using coords links instead of traditional text links is keeping Google from crawling through the entire site.

Instead of:

<area shape="rect" coords="194,132,289,160" href="wedding-video-pricing.html" alt="Wedding Video Prices Arizona">

Try:

Pricing

I'm not positive if it will help, but it can't hurt with indexation...

[A_Q]

Hello,

I'm pretty certain it will be to do with back links. The more relevant back links you can get then the better you're indexing will be.

I run a similar small website which has 12 pages but only 4 are indexed and the one thing it has in common with yours is the lack of links.

Have you thought of adding some of your wedding videos to youtube and going down the social route to attract links?

[EGOL]

At this time I dont have many inbound links from others

I don't think that you are doing anything wrong.  However, the speed and depth of indexing depends on the strength and number of inbound links.

Hang in there... you will be indexed in time... get a few more links if you can.

Probably has nothing to do with your indexing problem but there is an awful lot of empty table code on your homepage.

[toeplly]

Hi Tim,

Submit you Sitemap.xml in Google Webmaster tools to get fast and better indexing...

Create some good, relevant, high quality backlinks for your other 5 pages..

You will get in Google index fast..

[vheilman]

Your sitemap.xml looks fine, but like Tim said, submit it using Google Webmaster Tools.

Also, add it to your robots.txt file.  Add a new line:

User-agent: *
Allow: /

Sitemap: http://wwww.jparizonaweddingvideos.com/sitemap.xml

[KeriMorgret]

Unrelated to indexing, look at the file sizes of images on your page. Some of them are unnecessarily huge, which hurts user experience and can affect rankings (the auto-play of the video is also a negative for user experience).

Also, your home page renders with just the .com or the .com/index.html, and that should be fixed.

If you need instructions or references about how to do any of the suggestions in this thread, please let us know and we can post more information.

[fasctimseo]

Thanks Keri. I know of these issues. I work on so many sites and this one is my own. So it gets the lower priority when it comes to time spent.

[fasctimseo]

Thank you everyone. I suspected the lack of back links to become an issue. But I did think google would index all pages backlinks or not. I just figured the page would not rank high without them. Thank you everyone for your suggestions and I will work on it some more. As soon as I have time.

[KeriMorgret]

I know the feeling, it's the same story with me and my own site.