[juanmartinbravo]

Hi all!

After following some advices on the Stop Indexing Duplicate Content thread I thought I had everything ready for Google, but I was wrong
I think it's a simple question. Hope I can get good answers

1. I submitted my sitemaps through google webmaster tools. There was 57 urls, but google just indexed 7. Why? Screenshot:

HERE google says that they can't guarantee to index all the sites, but only 7 from 57.... I think something is wrong...
What do you think? Is it normal?
Will they index the other pages later or maybe the don't index it for reasons as duplicate content or whatever?
You can check my robots.txt file HERE, but I think everything is ok with that file.
2. As you can see my robots.txt ask google to don't index pages as /search, but they are doing it:
site:estosesale.com/news/search - Google Search
I think maybe they did it because I created the robots.txt file after they crawled my site, but will these results expected to dissapear on the future?

Thanks in advance!

Juan

[blaze]

Juan...

Yes, you are correct. Google crawled your site BEFORE you admitted the robots.txt file into your domain. Google is crawling sites so darn fast these days -- it's almost a joke for anyone to say "How do I get site my site listed in Google?" (Ha!) The only thing you can do now is to wait until Google removes those entries -- which they will, but how soon is entirely up to them.

In google webmaster tools, click on your domain name, then click on diagnostics, then click on Content analysis. From there, view how many pages "might" be causing trouble for Google. For example, take notice to the title tag issues and meta issues Google reports. My guess is that you likely have MANY. To fix these issues, you will have to apply a fix I wrote located here.

Yes I know, NOT ANOTHER FIX I HAVE TO IMPLEMENT?!! Welcome to the world of SEO.

After applying the meta/title fix, then you should be alright. Indexing takes time, so even if you submit a sitemap, Google will only take what it wants to at the time -- so don't worry. Eventually, after all fixes have been implemented, your site will index correctly. Just be patient though, as you still have much to fix before everything is sorted out in Google.

[juanmartinbravo]

Thanks blaze, I REALLY apreciate your effort (think is not the first time I thank u, lol)
I already read that thread and I had in mind to do it but it seemed difficult so I haven't enough brave to do it yet.

Google webmaster tools > diagnostics > Content analysis says "We didn't detect any content issues with your site". I guess they need more time, because I don't think everything is ok

Anyway, if my girlfriend let me spend another day on the computer, I'll put my hands on the meta/title fix

Thanks!

[spahiu]

i got only this
URLs restricted by robots.txt (67) .. i guess patience is key

[blaze]

Originally Posted by spahiu

i got only this
URLs restricted by robots.txt (67) .. i guess patience is key

The key is to NOT have anything bad reported. The robots.txt file being reported is not a bad thing, it's just telling you that it's working and Google cannot spider those pages, which is what you wanted.

If everything else is clean and nothing shows up (ie: pages) for duplicate content, then you're in good hands. However, if you start seeing some of your pages appear in the duplicate title tags and duplicate meta tags, then you have problems and you need to fix those issues.

[spahiu]

Originally Posted by blaze

The key is to NOT have anything bad reported. The robots.txt file being reported is not a bad thing, it's just telling you that it's working and Google cannot spider those pages, which is what you wanted.

If everything else is clean and nothing shows up (ie: pages) for duplicate content, then you're in good hands. However, if you start seeing some of your pages appear in the duplicate title tags and duplicate meta tags, then you have problems and you need to fix those issues.

thx, yeah i figured that out ..just pointing out what i have on that page.