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moxie_mouse
Joined: Nov 28, 2005
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Posted: 2005-Dec-20 01:20
First, I'm fairly new to the topic of SEO, so my question may seem pretty basic to some folks. I've read a number of similar posts, but I'd appreciate any feedback.
Our site has been up nearly 3 months and a couple of weeks ago we got our first 20 pages indexed out of about 4,000 pages. This was after we did away with our use of dynamic links. I've read about the google sandbox from folks, and I'm a little perplexed.
Here are our awstats log for googlebot
hits bandwidth last visit
Googlebot 1244+38 22.10 MB 19 Dec 2005 - 18:08
They're obviously hitting our site, but why are only 20 pages indexed? Do the number of hits have a correlation to the number of pages that ultimately become indexed? Is there a lag time before additional pages appear to be indexed? I sort of anticipated that once they hit your site they would index the whole thing and check back for changes. Nothing even close to that has occured.
Appreciate everyone's thoughts in advance.
THanks
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bhartzer
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Joined: Jun 08, 2000
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Posted: 2005-Dec-20 02:29
Google has gotten slower and slower at indexing lately. They used to index sites very quickly--but lately their speed of indexing your site depends on several factors--mainly PR (PageRank) and the number of links to your pages.
The higher the PR of your pages the more often they will crawl and index your pages. The more links you have to your internal pages on your site the quicker those internal pages will get indexed.
So, you need to get links to your internal pages from other higher-PR pages to get them indexed quicker. Or, you could use the Google Sitemaps tool to get your pages indexed (I'm not much of a fan of their sitemaps tool, though).
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moxie_mouse
Joined: Nov 28, 2005
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Posted: 2005-Dec-20 02:46
Thanks for the reply. Would broken links have a major impact as well? Our site has a huge number of internal links to various content, but I don't think we have a large number of bad links. Were in the process of checking and making corrections but would this have a huge impact?
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dirty_shame
Joined: Aug 28, 2005
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Posted: 2005-Dec-20 06:48
Broken links are bad because they flag the page as non-existent and crawlers won't come back voluntarily. That's why a Google (xml) sitemap can come in handy when you are making a transition or upgrading your site.
It gives you the ability to list exactly the pages you want to be visited and control (or at least suggest) how often you wish them to be updated.
Contrary to bhartzer's experience, I haven't see anything PageRank has done to raise our own SERPs. For me it's a surfer's tool more than a yardstick for ranking performance. For instance, some of our early 'grandfathered' sites with high PR come up nowhere near the top of the actual SE rankings while some of our new sites with zero PR arise just fine.
Of course the ideal result would be to have a solid performance using all of the tools. But I sincerely think that the Web itself has become so incredibly huge and bloated with nebulous content that it has slowed down even the fastest of the engines, Google.
Finding worthy content is getting to be like diamond mining.
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g1smd
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Joined: Jul 28, 2002
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Posted: 2005-Dec-21 02:08
Just a note about what can happen to new sites at the moment:
New domain registered Dec 3rd. Content uploaded Dec 4th (about 240 pages).
Index page showing in SERPs with cache of the domain holding page by Dec 7th.
HTML Sitemap of whole site posted on another site late on Dec 7th. Google spiders that other site at least once per week.
Now, 200 pages of site showing in SERPs by Dec 17th, with cache date of Dec 13th for each page.
What sandbox?
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