Getting Google to index new pages

[scanlin]

I have a site, called SiteB that has 200 pages of new, unique content. I made a table of contents (TOC) page on SiteB that points to about 50 pages of SiteB content. I would like to get SiteB's TOC page crawled and indexed by Google, as well as all the pages it points to. I submitted the TOC to Pingler 24 hours ago and from the logs I see the Googlebot visited the TOC page but it did not crawl any of the 50 pages that are linked to from the TOC.

I do not have a robots.txt file on SiteB. There are no robot meta tags (nofollow, noindex). There are no 'rel=nofollow' attributes on the links.

Why would Google crawl the TOC (when I Pinglered it) but not crawl any of the links on that page?

One other fact, and I don't know if this matters, but SiteB lives on a subdomain and the URLs contain numbers, like this:

http://subdomain.domain.com/category/34404

Yes, I know that the number part is suboptimal from an SEO point of view. I'm working on that, too. But first wanted to figure out why Google isn't crawling the TOC. The site is new and so hasn't been penalized by Google.

Thanks for any ideas...

[itrogers]

Have you created and submitted to Google an XML sitemap including the TOC and all other pages?

[scanlin]

I haven't tried an xml sitemap; I will try that. Thanks for the response...

[KeriMorgret]

What are the results from the sitemap? Has Google started crawling any more of your pages?

[scanlin]

Turns out I didn't need the sitemap. I just needed more time. Google crawled and indexed everything as I expected, but it took longer than I expected.