Do we need quality links for internal pages to get indexed?

Home page indexed-having trouble with internal pages

[F_Rose]

We are having trouble getting indexed for our internal pages? Is having links to the internal pages the only solution?

[tedster]

Not necessarily links directly to each internal url, no. But an inbound link or two that comes within close "click distance" of an internal url can be a big help. Also take a close look at site navigation. Are the problem urls turned into a kind of backwater, taking quite a few hops to get to them from the domain root, and so on.

[F_Rose]

The problem url's are listed on our home page, and is not listed in our site navigation.

Most of our old url's have gone into supplemental results due to 301 redirect problem that we are working on to get resolved.

I was trying to do a test on getting new url's indexed with Google, however the new url's are live for a couple of weeks and Google is not indexing those url's.

What could possibly be the problem?

[tedster]

If I understand correctly, these are new links on your Home Page pointing to your friend's new URLs on a different domain. If so, your domain may have lost trust with Google for some reason, or at the least these new cross-domain links on the Home Page may be suspect because they fit a "paid link" footprint.

[F_Rose]

"If I understand correctly, these are new links on your Home Page pointing to your friend's new URLs on a different domain."

This is not the case, it's linking to new pages with our domain.

We have created new pages with new url's, the url's are pointing from our home pages as well as from our site map.

But Google is not including these new url's in thier database.

These pages have unique meta tags and contents.

Please advise,

Thank you..

[sem4u]

What 301 redirect problems are you having? Are you using 301 redirects to redirect the old URLs to the new ones?

[F_Rose]

We have done a url rewrite on our old url's. We where having difficulties doing a 301 redirect due to the way our site was written. We finally got that taken care of, and are waiting for Google to get our pages out of supplemental (hopefully).

Meanwhile, we are running a test by adding some new url's to our existing domain with the true url (no need to 301 redirect) but we can not get Google to index these pages?

Why?

[steveb]

"We have created new pages with new url's"

They are probably seen as duplicates of the old pages and so won't be indexed until the old info is purged from Google's memory via 301s or the passage of time.

The new bot is also pathetically weak in its crawling so it just takes longer for pages to get indexed than it used to when the vastly superior bot was in use.