site links not indexed

[jbcobbs]

I have recently started doing SEO for a website that contains about 20 main categories and an unlimited amount of products under these links. The main categories are simple, static type links while the product pages are dynamic. All google has indexed is the main page and nothing else? Is it because of low PR? More time? It is a yahoo store if that makes a difference. Please advise.

[mlemos]

It sounds like you are cloaking, i.e. pages show one thing to the users that is different than what search engine crawlers will see, like for instance using Javascript in onclick events of links.

[jbcobbs]

no, i just started working on this site, I have only just started playing with titles and keywords. Its all relevant content.

[stargeek]

Have you checked your logs to see if googlebot has crawled the rest of your pages? PR is helpful to getting alot of pages crawled and is especially useful when it is distributed across a shallow links structure. Work on exposing as many links to content/product pages as possible on your root and other indexed pages.
Keep to under 100 links on each page though, for the spiders and the humans.

[jazzx]

is your navigation javascript based?

[sem4u]

Get some PR4/5 links - this should help :)

[d_fused]

Get some PR4/5 links - this should help :)

A site I have started working on recently has the same problem; despite the 50+ PR4/5 inbound links. Googlebot spiders the home page on a daily basis but won't go deeper.

The website is absolutely static, with fresh contents added daily, validates and returns no error codes (always 200 OK for pages that are there and 404 for ones which are not available anymore).

There are breadcrumbs thoughout the site, many deep links from the home page including a nicely done sitemap with fewer than 20 links per page. There are neither JavaScript nor dynamic links. In spite of everything I have done to facilitate Google bot, it simply won't go deeper.

It has been like this for the past month -- no deep crawl, so I guess it just takes more time.

In comparison, another web site, now PR4, gets deep crawled almost daily, however, no new pages are being indexed at the moment. This very web site got almost fully indexed within days about six months ago.

Regards.
Alex

[sem4u]

I am seeing the complete opposite. 27 pages from one new site were crawled a couple of weeks ago. By 1st March, 55 pages were in the Google index. Still waiting for the PR update.

[d_fused]

I am seeing the complete opposite. 27 pages from one new site were crawled a couple of weeks ago. By 1st March, 55 pages were in the Google index. Still waiting for the PR update.

Hmmm, sounds interesting. The only thing I haven't considered is deeplinking the domain from another web site. So instead of linking to domain.com/ I am going to point several links to domain.com/some-folder/somepage.html

Let's hope I will have some good results to post in a couple of days.

Regards,
Alex

[delsartm]

Oops, wrong post... Sorry...