Google not ranking our new pages - except for site: operator searches

[nomis5]

Over the last six weeks at least, over four sites, I am seeing Google index almost no new pages. The existing pages are unaffected. One of the sites is managed exclusively by my partner, with no input by me and it's in a different language. All websites are affected equally.
When I say "not indexed", that's not 100% correct, they are indexed if I type in the site name and a page search key. But all searches without the site name yield 0 results. It's almost inconcievable that Google can associate any of the sites together, especially the foreign language one. The foreign language one also has been developed along the lines of my partner and not me. A very different approach.
Is anyone else seeing this with new pages over a prolonged period of time? All the new pages have a grey PR. One single page (in a series of 4) has been indexed and rates number 1 in Google for the target search word. All the others zilch.

[tedster]

Somehow this post was overlooked for a while - sorry about that.

Right now many people are reporting pages being spidered, but not indexed. Your report is a bit different than that - very odd.

[edited by: tedster at 2:27 am (utc) on Sep. 1, 2007]

[g1smd]

In days of old, I would have said that you probably had a bucketful of Supplemental Results - and it would have been easy to check for that.

That may still be true, but with at least one new twist.

[nomis5]

About 300 of 750 in supplementals. That seems a reasonable ratio. It's not that, it's the new pages which often are not getting indexed, at least over the last six weeks or so.

[tedster]

Your report in the first post was that these pages do show up for a aite: search, so they are indexed - they're just not ranking. That could be a supplemental issue, or a sandbox-like phenomenon. This also could be a Google bug, and there's darned little you might do to fix that.

I assume these new articles are well linked internally, correct?

[nomis5]

Yes, they are well linked internally. Same structure as all the existing pages. 2 away from the home page. I think I will try and get a reasonable quality extrnal link to them and see what effect that has.