Time for Google to index entire site?

[mitch.argon]

I have had two crawls since going live with a new site. Currently, I have 72 pages indexed (fluctuates which is fine) but most of these pages are primary content pages with only a few "detail listing" pages (from REW IDX).

Anybody out there have any guidance for how long it takes to get all site pages indexed? There are in excess of 8,000 pages on the site. Is there anything I should be doing (beyond blogging and selective contextual links)?

Thanks!

[RonnieG]

Mitch,

I like the site's full "wide hack" design with drop down menus, and wish my REW site was designed like that. It allows for more content on every page, and a wide IDX display, which many of us need for 3rd party plug-in IDX products anyway.

When I review your Google site: command results I see lots of replication in page titles and descriptions, especially in listing details. I don't think the SE's see enough unique content in these key tags to warrant indexing more than a few of your listing details pages. As I understand REW IDX, you can control (or can have REW program) the Title and Description tag contents to some extent.

Personally, for each listing's Title, I would want to use something like this: "MLS 123456, Address, SubdivisionName, City, State, Zip", and drop the "City ST Real Estate, City ST Homes for Sale" part. This would eliminate much of the duplicated stuff, and put the most unique components at the front of the Title tag. In the description tag, I would have it built something like: "Full MLS listing details for Address, City, ST, Zip, MLS# 123456, for sale in the SubdivisionName subdivision. See all home photos, full property description, and other real estate details." This makes the description stuff also unique, in the SE's perspective, makes the description contents more in line with the actual page content, and also includes many keywords that consumers might use when looking for info on a particular property. For example: "Property details and photos for 123 Mystreet, Reno NV". Note that all of the keywords occur somewhere in the Title and/or Description tags, some of them twice, and would also occur in the page content for that property.

Just my opinion.

[gibex]

For IDX details pages from 2 weeks to few months.

[ericbadgley]

I just check your site. You site only has 113 yahoo links & no google links. I may take longer that you think becuase your site doesn't have many backlinks therfore you site won't be crawled as much. If it does it does get crawled at may not stick because your authourtiy is week. You may spend more time writing blogs on Active rain & Rew. Also become more active in this forum. After 300 entries the no follow will be removed and the spyders will crawl your site mor frequently. These will help make sure the spyder visits your site more often. Also condsider become a rew client if you arn't already.

[darrenwoodard]

Creat an xml site map and submit it. I did this and now I have 1000s of pages indexed.

[mitch.argon]

Thanks to all of you for the suggestions. I will probably do all of them over time.

[JimOlenbush]

All good points, but keep in mind that it takes some time too. Just keep building links and posting new content and the number of indexed pages will grow.

[Oaklandhomespecialist]

My REW IDX has been up for a couple of months or so, and I have a few hundred indexed so far. I also been told that it takes some time, and authority.

[Oaklandhomespecialist]

Mitch,

I like the site's full "wide hack" design with drop down menus, and wish my REW site was designed like that. It allows for more content on every page, and a wide IDX display, which many of us need for 3rd party plug-in IDX products anyway.

When I review your Google site: command results I see lots of replication in page titles and descriptions, especially in listing details. I don't think the SE's see enough unique content in these key tags to warrant indexing more than a few of your listing details pages. As I understand REW IDX, you can control (or can have REW program) the Title and Description tag contents to some extent.

Personally, for each listing's Title, I would want to use something like this: "MLS 123456, Address, SubdivisionName, City, State, Zip", and drop the "City ST Real Estate, City ST Homes for Sale" part. This would eliminate much of the duplicated stuff, and put the most unique components at the front of the Title tag. In the description tag, I would have it built something like: "Full MLS listing details for Address, City, ST, Zip, MLS# 123456, for sale in the SubdivisionName subdivision. See all home photos, full property description, and other real estate details." This makes the description stuff also unique, in the SE's perspective, makes the description contents more in line with the actual page content, and also includes many keywords that consumers might use when looking for info on a particular property. For example: "Property details and photos for 123 Mystreet, Reno NV". Note that all of the keywords occur somewhere in the Title and/or Description tags, some of them twice, and would also occur in the page content for that property.

Just my opinion.

This sounds like a great idea Ronnie! I'm going to consider that. I was already thinking of taking the city real estate out of the title tag, but I have my description tag pulling words from the remarks section of the listing. This is good because it's unique, but it doesn't have many kw's in it.

[darsh999]

Patience is a big virtue and in todays world when u have just a few trillion sites up u gotta have it .... just try n build up back links with frequent updates to ur onsite content .