SEO Tips : Want Google to Index Your Site Deeper?
Actually I had also some problems with Google indexing my web pages and found some tips on how to get rid of this. This happens very often, especially with huge dynamically driven or user-generated websites, you might feel you have some indexing problems, i.e. Google doesn’t seem to dig your site as deep as you want it to. You might want to look into the following:
- Diagnosed indexing problems. For some reason, in many cases, Google site: operator won’t show you the real number how many URLs the search engine has indexed. You should thoroughly explore how deep your site has been indexed in reality before arriving at any conclusions. Here are some tips to do that (also mentioned at SEOmoz):
- check how many pages are indexed in each directory (or subdirectory: the deeper you dig, the more accurate the results are): site:yoursite.com/subdirectory/sub-subdirectory1 + site:yoursite.com/subdirectory/sub-subdirectory2, etc.
- search for subdirectory-specific keywords: site:yoursite.com inurl:subdirectory (or site:yoursite.com intitle:subdirectory);
- check recently indexed pages (take advantage of “date range” option via advanced search).
Having chosen any of these methods, carefully collect the data and in the end you will get a more accurate number of website indexed pages.
- Mark any non-indexing patterns. Which type(s) of pages or subdirectories are left out without attention: try to sort out any non-indexing rules or logic? By doing this you will be able to determine the issues that must have caused the indexing issues: duplicate content probably or incorrect internal architecture. Try to draw your site main interlinking structure and find pages that get inadequate link juice.
- Work on your site external deep linking ratio: deep link to your subdirectories from external resources (quality deep linking directories should still help with that).
- Give importance to Google bot: If you keep
Google bot busy crawling huge files or waiting for your page to load or following duplicate content URLs, you might be missing the chance to show it your other pages.
