Only Index Page in Google

[experienced]

Hi,

One of my site is not indexing in Google. I have senn only one page (home page)in the google. I also have seen that this home page is always updated in the google with the changes in the meta tags (if any), but only one page is there from last 7-8 months. I am also having other site having good PR upto 7 but this is the first case. Pls comment.

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Thanks in advance
EXP...

[edited by: ciml at 10:12 am (utc) on Oct. 2, 2003]
[edit reason] See StickyMail. [/edit]

[engine]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld [webmasterworld.com]

You do need to check that googlebot is able to get to the rest of your site.

Do you have a robots.txt [webmasterworld.com] file banning the spider?

Do you have any links on the home page that can be followed by googlebot. Try Brett's SIM spider. [searchengineworld.com]

Check those things first of all.

[Kratzy]

I have a similar issue. My home page is indexed and updated almost every day, ie. gets a fresh tag almost every day. It's PR7

The sub-domains are fine and fully indexed, but the primary site has only the index page indexed.

A while ago I redirected 301 all the aliases to my site back into it. Google has removed all the old site links but doesn't seem to want to index the site at its correct url.

I've seen crawl31 actaully look at some of the pages and obey directly the 301 redirects, but none of the other spiders have even bothered to follow the redirects or index the correct URL.

Except, as noted above, the homepage.

[dirkz]

EXP, is your site fresh?

My experience with fresh sites is this: Only the index page is crawled for weeks. Finally, there is a deep crawl. After a couple of days the all appear in the index.

Kratzy, I have a similar problem: Used a 301, and Googlebot came across it a lot. Then crawled the new index page, but never crawled deeper. The new index page was in the index. Yesterday it dropped completely, though it was still crawled 2 days ago.

I hope that it's only related to the 301 and no penalty (I made the mistake to redirect ALL old pages to the index page on the new domain, but this is fixed now).

[Kratzy]

Well I basically put a mod_rewrite in that said if it wasn't www.xyz.com then do a 301 redirect to www.xyz.com.

and this applies to all sub pages also, so if someone requested www.abc.com/foobar.html it would 301 redirect to www.xyz.com/foobar.html

[Fearless]

Two words:

Site map.

[dirkz]

My redirected pages (301) are still not in the index, not even the main page. However I noticed this morning that Googlebot crawled it a little deeper. He hasn't done so for a long time. I hope this is a good sing.

I think I will never make a redirect :)