Spidered for almost 4 months, but still only home page indexed

[tucj7]

Wonder if anyone can shed some light on this. I think this situation is unique, because I haven't been blacklisted.

I run a price comparison website for a smaller-economy country.

When I launched, after about 3 weeks, I had over 50 pages indexed in Google. It spidered all the time. Then all of a sudden, only my home page was left in the index. I have uploaded a sitemap and now I'm pretty sure google has spidered every page I have - I've checked the logs.

But, after almost 4 months now after launching there is only my home page in the index.

The problem is that the competition have loads more pages indexed and they're "taking away my traffic".

Can anyone help?

[sandpetra]

Hi!

Without more detail it's difficult to help (or at least give you my ten bobs worth).:)

Have you validated your pages? Do you have unique content? Spell checked? Removed any unecessary scripts? Checked downloadtimes? Checked for broken links?

Using any 'spam' looking techniques? Have you got links from external sites (V.IMPORTANT!)

You've not got any fancy redirects etc or using frames poorly?

I'm afraid it could be anything but you should get a site spidered within a week or two if Google finds it from an external link. I tested this 1 month ago.

Give us some specs, then. :)

[shogun_ro]

Do you have direct links to other pages?
If you use java script menu or flash use a sitemap file with all the links in it.

[ronburk]

there is only my home page in the index

Some people say "in the index" when they really mean "visible in the SERPs for my favorite keyword". Just to clarify, when you Google for "site:www.yerdomain.com" is the only URL returned your home page?