I'm obviously doing something incredibly stupid with my markup that only a few of the pages on my site are indexed. Does anyone have any ideas why this is happening? I'm sure it's just something simple but my brain doesn't seem to be working today.

EDIT: I don't know if it makes any difference but I added a (checked and valid) Google sitemap to it about 36 hours ago?

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First thing to say is give each page a unique description META. Your snippets aren't going to do you any search favours.

I would also fix the canonical URL problem (www and non-www URL). Not sure what the issue is. Your robots.txt seems fine and the spider I just sent in had no problems accessing your pages.

If I were to guess I'd say you need some more link juice. You're probably on a fairly long crawl interval as your site was a holding page for quite a while.

I'd wait and see. When did you stick up the new site? Have you promoted it at all, linkwise?

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How do you mean? At the moment, each META description is pretty much unique. Are you talking about making them all wildly varied? Why would that stop, say, the About page from being indexed? What's got me is that Google isn't indexing most pages at all. Not just relegating them as 'similar'

Yep, I'll get in touch with the host. Is it a 301 redirect I need to set-up here?

This is true. And there was an indexed staging site up there too... which may very well have annoyed Google when I took it down. It was meant to be behind a session login but apparently it wasn't.

Yeah, I guess it's just a matter of playing the waiting game seeing as it's a fairly new site. Some of the pages that were cached are no longer being indexed but I suppose it's just because of the site being launched (I launched it last Wednesday, so just over a week)

Cheers Richard.

The snippets Google is showing are all the same. Which means that it maybe picking up boilerplate content. Wouldn't affect indexing apart from possible issues with landing in the supplemental index.


301 - yep

Too soon to worry. Put the kettle on, sit back, and give me a shout in a week or ten days and I'll sort out a temporary link or two from ym site which should get you sorted.

Things have changed since the last time I looked, before G just showed 2 pages until you clicked on "repeat the search with the omitted results included" which then showed 000s of pages, many supplemental. IIRC they were divided roughly into two blocks, all the "properly" indexed pages showed your H1 as the description, all your supplemental pages showed a generic description. IMO it's no coincidence the pages now showing up are from the blog, as they've got page specific descriptions. Though, I'd drop "Web design and development industry digest. Discussion on web standards and accessibility ..." from appearing on every blog page description or you could run into the same problems...

Cheers folks. I'll play about with the META descriptions and sort out the redirect and let you know how it goes over the next couple of weeks.

Came across an interesting comment: "Just fyi, I think we'll be changing the rule-of-thumb for site: searches so that even if sites do have the same title/meta descriptions, we'll still show plenty of results instead of that "click to see more results" link. It will probably take a few weeks before it's fully live, but I know it's on someone's todo list." Matt Cutts - comments on Google Getting Stricter On The Supplementals?

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