problems with pages getting indexed in Google

[TheRedPenOfDoom]

I have a portfolio with around 1000 pages, I have created a sitemap and have listed all those pages. I have done "Fetch As Google" with render request. But still only 600 pages seems to be appeared as have been indexed.

Why Google is not indexing other pages?

[FranticFish]

As far as I am aware, indexing is not directly related to spidering, and both have their own, separate, resource allocation.

Google may have indexed all the urls it thinks your domain is entitled to have indexed, and to increase that number you need to increase the amount of clout/authority/PR your site has.

[TheRedPenOfDoom]

You mean to say that every site based on their clout/authority/PR are entitled to have only a certain no. of pages to get indexed in Google.

[Clay_More]

I don't know that entitled is the best word to describe the phenomenon.

Many people have observed that a site needs some benchmark levels of clout/authority/PR to support full indexing of that site's pages.

With 1000 pages of unique content, there should be social mentions and links from other sites to support that content and provide search engines the signals they need to justify further spidering/indexing.

[FranticFish]

Yep - here's Matt Cutts in 2010: [youtube.com...]

No reason to believe this has changed since then.

[TheRedPenOfDoom]

Thank you all for the quick responses. Helped a lot.