Google's Crawl - Indexing question

[jay88]

I have noticed interesting behavior from Google's spiders when crawling my site.

I add new pages every day. Some of the recent pages I have added have links to all the other new pages I added. In other words, a few days ago, I added 10 new pages. And all 10 pages had links to all the other 9.

And they are all at the root of my site. But what's wierd is that only 1 of the 10 is getting indexed by Google. I know this by performing various searches to verify this.

What's even wierder is that the 1 page that is indexed, although at the root like the other 9, actually is sort of the 'main' page for the all 10 of the pages. But how does Google know that?

Any ideas why some pages get indexed, while others don't, even if everything else about all of them is equal?

[jaymer]

nothing about google is making sense to me at the moment!

[dejaone]

be patient, wait for a while. Or get more backlinks.

[bcombs]

I wouldn't rely on searches to tell you if a page is in the site. A page can be indexed, yet not show up in searches. If you have the Google Toolbar installed, bo to the page, and pull down from the "i" to "Cached Snapshot of Page". That will tell you if the page is in Google's index.



Brian

[Johan007]

Originally Posted by jay88

What's even wierder is that the 1 page that is indexed, although at the root like the other 9, actually is sort of the 'main' page for the all 10 of the pages. But how does Google know that?

because it is the index page?

[jay88]

bcombs - I did that - I wasn't relying on searches - 1 page is cached, the other nine are not

and none of them are index pages - any more thoughts?