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Socialdude, that may well be the case. It also looks more natural if you have keyword links going to internal pages. Typically you'd expect keywords for a home page to be the company's name or their main niche with more specific keyword links targetting internal pages. It sounds like your keywords are working for your homepage at the moment, so you may want to continue with that. But I would add more diversity with internal pages at the same time.

Mike, I think I almost got the jest of your reply post, but let me make sure. I'll make some assumptions out loud and you tell me if I'm reading the tea leaves correctly, if you don't mind, that is, please. The site you mention, e.g. blogrolling.com etc., I take it those are sites that a ping service would notify about my newly submitted url to the ping service? Regarding the 'keeping track' comments, I take it you mean that I could manually go to each of these sites and submit my site, but the ping services does that for me, and to many sites from my one submission to them? As you can tell, ping services are new to me and like Socialdude who started this post, I am trying to understand it. Especially three aspects: 1. How and why do ping services work, and 2. What is their incentive to exist and do all this work for us for free? So they can advertise to us? 3. I own the site www.Grossinternational.com and I put new pages and blogs up on the site often so I am trying to understand if I should ping every new page and post, which I think I should, and second, should I ping them just the once and let it go or re-ping those pages? It seems to me that I should only do it once, but when I see ping services offering to ping my site weekly or daily even, then I start doubting my understanding again. My latest blog tonight is at http://grossinternational.com/penny-auction-strategy/ and I just pinged it. Now, should I do that again in a week? And if so, why and how often? Thanks for your help and time, and with me especially, thanks for your patience. Kurt Gross, Knoxville, TN USA P.S. One other question, i.e. I pinged this page with this post on it. Isn't that a good idea, or not?

Using the in the header of the page will tell most bots who care that the various versions of the page URL that bring up this content are really the page referenced in the canonical link tag. This is very handy when you have index pages that show up for /, index, and /folderName. Since the same page is actually loaded for these the bot will see the canonical tag and should remember they are all the same (or just go to the page you tell it to). This is usually the easiest solution (if you can automate it for most pages) as you may not catch all of your weird URL situations with one 301 redirect. Hope that helps.

If pages are not been indexed you can try and add the urls to Digg.com or Stumble Upon for example. It has worked for me in the past As said above it could also be other reasons for not been added to the index, no content? robots block? Server issues? Dormant pages not internal linked to?

Thanks for the input John, Considering im on .co.uk & .com is unavailable Based on your suggestion I think its best that I create a another website using .ru & best to build that... Cheers..

Thanks for the answer I suspected that, I'll go back over existing sites and be sure to 301 sites going forward, cheers.

Cheers for your reply and answer & Yes most of your assumptions were correct I am using sitemap generation. The issue is fixed there was a problem with the sitmap when created but it's all sorted now & submitted correctly in WMT. Thanks...

Hi Guys, Thanks for the input, some really good advise. I'll take your information on board and that into practice. Cheers...

MJ, the challenge with that suggestion is it sounds like you are maintaining two websites. That solution would not work for any situation with UGC or any data which changes over time. Even in cases where the pages were purely static content, a canonical tag would notify search engines of the page you wish to be indexed but not users.

Cheers, thanks for the input.