How deep will Google index pages?

Google do not index all pages in a site - why?

[lowen]

Hi!

I am wondering, - how deep will Google index pages on a site?
I have some sites, including pages that are not indexed by Google. I seems to index only down to 3td level in the menu hieracy. Does anyone have a clue to this?

Kind Regards

Lowen

[takagi]

It depends on the PageRank of the home page, how busy Googlebot is, the number of links on a page, number of parameters for dynamic pages and naming of those parameters, etc. To get more pages indexed, try:
1. Get more inbound links to the home page or to sub pages
2. Create site map page(s) with up to 100 links per page
3. For dynamic pages reduce the number of parameters and avoid names like 'id' os PHPSESSIONID

If you do this, eventually more pages/the whole site will be indexed.

[lowen]

Hi Takagi!

My pagerank is 0. I have inbound links from 4 sites, but Google do not show them. When I search for links, it shows nothing found. Why that is, I don't know either.
Otherwise my site do very good in Google. It's dynamic and have only quite simple parameters (ie. pg=1).

Kind Regards

Lowen

[edited by: lowen at 10:56 am (utc) on Oct. 27, 2003]

[mcavill]

hi lowen - google doesn't show all links, it usually only shows them for sites that are PR4 or above - although some people are seeing them from PR3 sites.

As takagi mentioned the best bet is probably to get some deep links to your internal pages, and create a simple site map - i've just launched a site, the homepage is showning PR0 and internal showing PR1, just because a couple of people linked to that page rather than the home page - when I look at your site I see PR2 on the home page - often (or always?) pages that use variables show a toolbar PR of 0.

I'd also edit your post, and remove your URL, before a moderator gets to it, as they don't like specifics.

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[operafan]

If other subpages of your site are not indexed - if that's what you mean, some possiblities could be
1. your site is in a frame?
2. your subpages might have too many ID's -i.e dynamic url therefore might be unspiderable.
3.Can't think now - your site still need good incoming links.
4.If you've done 3rd step good enough - then be patient, it will show when time comes.
Hope it helps.

[lowen]

Hi Mcavill!

I have a link to a sitemap, on every page. I'll just have to be more patient then, I think :-)
I did the post thing, you mentioned. But sometimes it is quite hard to explain the state of a problem in plain words, in an foreign language. Therefore I've used a real life example.

Kind Regards

Lowen

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[dirkz]

to 3td level in the menu hieracy

You mean "3 clicks away" from the index page? How old are the pages, and which PR do they have? Would be interesting to gather information about this.

[lowen]

Hi Operafan!

I have altered some of the pages in the last couple of days, so no visble pages are below level 3 now.
My site do not use frames, neither do it use tables,- it is pure CSS(validated) and HTML(validated). And the parameters is as mentined before quite simple (ie pg=1). The inbound links are all form pr0 sites. So I think I'll be looking to get some inbound links from higher pr sites ;-)
Thanks.

Kind Regards

Lowen

[lowen]

Hi dirkz!

My pr is 0. The pages are indexed up to level 3 (3 clicks from the frontpage). At level 4 (4 clicks away from the frontpage) they are not indexed. I have 2 domains (both pr0), at the one earlier mentioned (almost 1 year old), there are no more pages below level 3. At my other domain (aprox. 5 year old), there is still pages at level 4 and 5, which are not indexed.

Kind Regards

Lowen