Large indexing problem
 

Hi I have a site that has so many pages, yet it's not being indexed like it used to be. 50% less.
Recently I changed the URL structure to a more complicated one.
I however redirected all old pages to new pages, however this is when problem started happening.
Also in google still shows old urls.
Traffic is on major decrease.

Is there any idea what I have done wrong?

P.s. sitemap submitted with new links ages ago and sitemap recieved by both yahoo and google yet still display old links.

I can't post links yet but Google for power indexing blue hat seo

thanks, good link

anymore for anymore?

google doesnt allways do a deep crawl. you might need a good authority site in bound to get a deep crawl

also you might need some deep links so if you have domain.com/cat1, domains.com/cat2 try getting some links to those pages. hopefully your site is structured with subcategories. so it will crawl those pages from some deep links

Goodluck dude good advice

Before the switch of url structure it had all pages indexed, so I don't think deeplinks are the problem.
The problem occured when the swtich took place from url.com/hi.htm to url.com/57/hi.htm

It sounds to me like the redirection could be a problem? Google doesnt read redirects properly sometimes.

- make sitemap and add it to webmaster tools
- make 301 redirects on old urls
- sit and wait...

Which type of redirects did you use and how? .htaccess?

Thanks, been 1.5 months though now.

If the old pages aren't there anymore, wouldn't a well designed 404 page work better?

site maps in html and xml?

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh good joke
XML to google and urllist.txt submitted to yahoo. Btw yahoo same problem.

btw at start of thread had a goodlook at bluehat seo but it looked all quite complex

Log into your google webmaster account, and be sure that on top of 302/etc redirects internally on your site, you've properly delisted/asked for removal on the pages you want not showing anymore.

I don't have any problems getting my sites indexed. The bigger problem for me is getting external links.

a bump for me