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Sitemap - only 1 url of 8 indexed?

Hi

I use my website mainly as a portfolio to show to prospective clients, but I would also like it to appear in relevant search results. It was built using iWeb 08 and is hosted by GoDaddy.

I have followed the advice on this excellent forum and so now have the site verified by Google, and have managed to generate a sitemap (using Rage Sitemap Automator) and successfully submit it. BUT only the contents of the first page of my site are appearing in Google searches, and when I checked Google Webmaster, it says "URLs in sitemap total 8; indexed 1."

Can anyone help me work out where I have gone wrong please??

If it helps, the website is:
http://www.jillsinclair.net

Thanks.

iMac 24" 2.4GHz intel core duo 2, Mac OS X (10.6.2), iBook 1.2GHz Power PC G4

Posted on Jan 26, 2010 12:38 AM

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Wyodor

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Posted on Jan 26, 2010 12:54 AM

This is the complete address:

http://www.jillsinclair.net/google43df4013bdf34296.html/LandscapeHistoryHome.html

Are you sure this is meant as a folder?

google43df4013bdf34296.html

It looks like a webpage to me.

And where is the Site folder iWeb creates? Did you use google43df4013bdf34296.html as the Site name in iWeb?

Nothing wrong with that, but you probably won't get the results you're after.

First do it right and then proceed from there.

And only use technology you really understand.

It's not an iWeb problem.

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Roddy

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Feb 2, 2010 11:14 AM in response to paris girl

To find out what internal links that Google has indexed go to your Dashboard and look under "Your site on the web/Internal links".

A good indication of your "presence" on the web is to look at the "Links to your site" section". To find out which sites are linking to yours, click the "Find" button for the URL - http://www.website.com/. Add - AnyPageName.html - into the box to find external links to a specific page.

Its interesting to to look at these links to see which ones are "quality" ones - those that come from other sites with a large amount of traffic. For example, iWeb for Musicians has about 600 incoming links but only 20 or so coming from well established websites. This tells me that I should start taking advantage of all these link exchanges that I am being offered! When you realize the importance of these external links you will see why it is essential to use keywords in your domain name, sub site and page names. In other words, page names like Welcome, About, Contact etc are useless.

To increase the effectiveness if keywords in page names its apparently more effective to separate the words with hyphens and NOT the underscores that we see so often.

paris girl Author

Level 1

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Feb 3, 2010 1:56 AM in response to paris girl

Thanks to everyone for their ideas and suggestions. My site map is still only producing one indexed URL but, more importantly, Google is now finding all my pages! Not sure what solved the problem - whether it was removing that weird metatag I'd put in my URL, or resubmitting the sitemap, or verifying again with the HTML file, or something else entirely. But I am now where I wanted to be when I posted the question, so thanks again to all.

Sitemap - only 1 url of 8 indexed?