Does Google Selectively Index pages?

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[rivi2k]

Hey im not really sure if anyone will be able to answer this, but my problem is that for keywords "k1 k2 k3 k4", i am not getting any form of listing in google for the page in my site targeted to those words.

My main site page shows up for the terms in the google index (a few hundred spots from where i would like it to be :) but "mydomain.com/k1k2k3/k4.html" is no where to be found.

My main site isnt as related to the search as this inner page is, and i would really prefer if this page appeared above the main site.

Does anyone know what could be causing this and how i might go about gaining a position in the index with this page?

(On a side note the domain/index page has good PR, but due to content change all other pages are still at 0. could that be it?)

[jo1ene]

Perhaps it's a PR issue. But many of my new content pages (PR0) are coming up in results before my home page. Have you tried a keyword tool. I have found that keywords get read in odd ways depending on sentence structure. Maybe you're not targeting the keywords you think you are? Just a guess.

[jo1ene]

I just realized something. You say that the directory is k1k2k3. If they are not separated by dashes, which mean spaces to Google, they are not read as separate keywords. Are you expecting the keywords in the URL to help? In this case they won't.

[rivi2k]

I was unaware that this was the case with Google. I was under the impression when "k1 k2 k3" was typed in the search, it wouldnt matter if the file/folder name had spaces or dashes in it, as long as the words were there.

In your opinion would you recommend i add "-" or "_" to act as spaces in the folder "k1k2k3". Do you think that could help at all?

Thanks :)