Indexing and PageRank

[James_WV]

Hi Everyone,

I'm pretty new to this forum, but I've been reading some of your posts and definately thought this would be the place to come to for answers to a couple fo my questions:

1) We have an xml sitemap submitted to Google, constructed using the tool they recommended, but some of the links form our home page aren't being indexed even though they have been there a lot longer than some which are currently being indexed. Going to manually submit them - which I think will help? Any other ideas?

2) Some of our pages which are being indexed have a page rank of 0, which is fine because they've only just been created. But some of our pages say 'No page rank information available' even though they have definately been indexed - any ideas? (all are being linked to directly form our home page which has a page rank of 5...)

Thanks in advance!

[Quadrille]

1. If your site's navigation is OK, and your site has been included, then Google will have spidered those pages, and they have not been indexed. Adding a site map can help get 'deep' pages indexed, but Google does not guarantee to index every page, and you cannot 'force' them to. Manual submission may make a temporary listing happen, but will not change the reason Google chose not to include the URL in the first place.

Are you sure it is not indexed? Try searching for a [unique string of text] from the page.

2. Many possible reasons, nothing you can control. The most obvious is age ... visible page rank is often months out of date, so indexed pages may not appear to be.

Other possible reasons include:
duplicate content
missing <title> tag
missing or duplicate meta description tag

... and scores of other 'noncompliance with guidelines' issues.

Alerting you, so that identifying and sorting out such issues becomes a priority, is the only real value of visible page rank.