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I have a website that has over 5000 links generated on the sitemap. Half are products and the other half are images. Effectively there is one image per product code.
The search engines are ignoring almost all of these links and just indexing 70 pages.
Where can I find some good guidelines on how the search engines operate. When I posted a message on google all I received was a comment 'how many pages do you expect to be indexed!'
The search engines are ignoring almost all of these links and just indexing 70 pages.
Where can I find some good guidelines on how the search engines operate. When I posted a message on google all I received was a comment 'how many pages do you expect to be indexed!'
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Why would they index the other 4930 links?
Half are product images, they are of almost all the UK stamps issued from day one! Google wants more images and these are unique images of each issued postage stamp.
But it the product codes themselves that I am trying to get indexed. People around the world type in the standard code for each of these stamps because they are looking to buy them or least check the prices.
Before last Christmas they were mostly indexed . I changed the hosting at Christmas and the site was down for a few weeks and now I cannot get any of them listed.
It looks as though Google is considering the volume of items to be an attempt to manipulate the search engine. In reality they are all unique and separate items in which (many) people are interested.
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Google doesn't index all of the links in any of the sites I've done.