Only homepage in google now!

[PCSceo]

We recently spent 6 months developing a projectors website featuring 99% unique content on about 3000 projectors. It launched about 3 months ago. Submitted it to google, yahoo directory, and about 200 other directories. Have a perfect Google sitemap working. We have a decent amount of links from trusted sites in our industry. They cant be seen on G, but show on yahoo.
We are doing great with yahoo, ok with msn. Now google, different story.
A week after submission we got or homepage in the index, a week later about 50 pages. We were actually getting some nice traffic. We decided to add 1 small adsense block per page. About 5 days later, we were back to just the home page! It's been like that for 2 months. Last week we got a 2nd page indexed to our /news/ page, 3 days later, its gone in all datacenters.
We are adding new content daily.
Googlebot has been indexing our site regularly but not putting us in the index.

If you want to take a look our site can be found by searching G for <edited>

Any insight gang?

Thanks

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[edited by: tedster at 3:57 am (utc) on Aug. 4, 2006]

[jimbeetle]

Sounds like normal behaviour for a new site. Because of the "sandbox" effect (whatever that is) and the new Big Daddy crawl infrastructure you can expect to see pages popping in and out of the index until they reach some point of stabilization (whatever that might be). Much of the new Big Daddy is based on PR so the usual prescription is to develop backlinks to the interior pages. Also make sure that your navigation paths are clear and that links are spiderable by the bots. Then continue adding content, sit back, and wait (while nervously twiddling your thumbs).

[RichTC]

PSC

Sandbox, affiliate adverts, low PR, high page content on Young site.

You have everything against you for a site to rank well. As advised, sit it out, keep securing backlinks, Keep adding Unique content. In time you will be out the sand and ranking fine.

This is the cycle of google - they want your adwords money from the offset!

[Quadrille]

and about 200 other directories

Not always wise; many directories are not good news at all. Twenty quality directories would be far, far more useful than 200 iffy ones.

If you signed up to any that demanded a reciprocal link, I'd remove that link now (they'll remove theirs too - but that will not hurt you).

A proportion of those reciprocators will already be in bad neighborhoods, others will go that way. Not what a new site needs, believe me.

[PCSceo]

As far as the directories go, we didnt do any link exchange directories. I guess thats the deal then. Wait it out. It just amazes me to see millions of spam sites that are in the index and I cant even get more than 2 pages out of 9,000 in big G. Thanks a lot for the input guys. I really appriciate it.
-d

[mbucks]

I've the same problem. We launched in Feb, PR is 5. A couple of thousand of pages of unique content and our pages have yo-yo'd in and out of the suplemental to the point where there's just one page indexed and that's the home page.

It wouldn't hurt so much if they were at least indexed yet ranking lowly, but why supplemental? All the guidlines have been followed!

Don't know what we'd do without MSN or Yahoo. Getting good results from those.

[jimbeetle]

our pages have yo-yo'd in and out of the suplemental

As explained, that's an example of the new Big Daddy crawling behaviour. It relies heavily on PR. As the knobs on that Oz-like control board at the 'Plex pages "on the cusp" of the crawl (as Matt Cutts put it), will appear to bounce in and out. More links, preferably deep, will help.