getting pages listed on Google other than the home page

[lloyd]

Hi

Google has cached my home page and it does it every other day, pretty much.

The problem I appear to have is that it is not picking up the other pages, or at least not listing them.

My site is a completely static site.

I was wondering what maybe causing this?

Is it at all possible to do with the way I have written the link code to each page - example below.

<a href="x/zzz.html">z</a>
<a href="x.html">x</a>

I would be very interested in knowing if this is the case.

OR is it just a case of being patient as the site has been live for less than a month.

Many thanks

[cuzco]

Hi,

Make sure the HTML validates.
Get some more incoming links.
Then some more.
Wait.

BTW. Nothing wrong with the way you write your urls

[kevinpate]

> site has been live for less than a month

that pretty much explains it all. patience ain't always fun, but it's near on always necessary.

[4string]

It took about six or seven weeks for my site (redirected to a new domain) to start getting crawled beyond the index page. You just have to wait.

[willybfriendly]

Deep links can't hurt. Give the SE's different ways into your site.

WBF

[Webdetective]

I'm not sure if this the most appropriate thread to post my question about Google listings.

I've been wondering if my script-generated pages have not done well on Google because they are over optimized.

I currently have it so my Title tags, main H1 heading, and in some cases, an image alt tag all exactly matching my page file names. Example: x-y-z.html, <title>x-y-z</title>, <H1>x-y-z</H1> alt="x-y-z". After that, the same keyword phrase is repeated further down in the body of the page.

Maybe I should try changing the H1 into a <P> with large font size, or alter the title tag so they don't exactly match.

[Jambo_ME]

With a new site, I like to make regular changes to all the pages on the site. Adding or deleting something to a common footer text, for example.

I believe if Google sees that your site is updating often, it will spider more often, and perhaps spider more pages.

Also, do you have a sitemap or index with a list of links to all your pages? Put a link on your homepage to that.

[webnewton]

i would suggest you to wait. Your whole site must have been indexed but is not being shown. Site may reflect after some time. To hasten the process you could have done some link buildig for the individual inner pages(if you dnt' have huge site)

[HarryM]

Webdetective,

I suggest you retain the H1 tag because you are using it as intended.

A lot of my pages are very similar to yours and they rank well, although I usually have some text surrounding x-y-z to make it more descriptive. I create a $title variable and this gets repeated in the title, meta title, h1 tags, plus if the page features an image, in the title tag for that as well as the alt tag. I add extra text in the page title or h1 tags as necessary for readability, so they are not usually an exact match.

[Webdetective]

Harry,
So then maybe my problem might be having each of those items an exact match. I have noticed when I get a 1-10 hit from Google to some of these pages, they rarely ever match the page title. Since I am targeting mostly underused keyword phrases with little competition on these pages, getting top rankings should not be this difficult.

I can always add additional static text to my php tags in the template

example: <%keyword%> xyz software, <%keyword%> click here

[HarryM]

Webdetective,

Adding static text can't hurt (I think!), but I don't know whether it would help in page rankings. The whole issue is too complex to be certain of anything without trial and error.