Pages un-indexed in my site
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My current website www.energyacuity.com has had most pages indexed for more than a year. However, I tried cache a few of the pages, and it looks the only one that is now indexed by Goggle is the homepage. Any thoughts on why this is happening?
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Yeh, that would do it if all the pages had tags saying the homepage was the canonical url!
Apparently I either didn't notice them, or you had already deleted them when I looked at your page.
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Thanks Tyler, you helped me figure it out...I had canonical tags on all the pages!! I just deleted them and republished so I'm hoping that will solve the issue. Thank you for your help!
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This is also a bad url format: http://www.energyacuity.com/Newsletter/Report.aspx?id=f974a1bf8f4b490a918c58c59750aa49&cid=ade05d15b4334aa9a6aa8974f6058e7f
They are dynamic and I have had a bunch of caching issues with this kind of url: http://www.seomoz.org/q/never-crawled
Although google says that dynamic urls are okay: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/dynamic-urls-vs-static-urls-the-best-practice-for-seo-is-still-clear
There's still huge issues with them.
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OK, here is what I see:
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You don't have a robots.txt file, so it's not that
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As Tyler mentioned, you have quite a few pages indexed: http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aenergyacuity.com&num=100 although most seem to be in the Newsletter subdirectory. THe main pages of your site don't appear to be indexed.
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I checked several pages of your site and found no meta tags that could be causing the issue.
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Your links are not nofollow, so it's not that.
One possibility is that Google just hasn't gotten around to indexing the pages yet, perhaps because of your site's low backlinks/PageRank. Are you sure your entire site used to be indexed but no longer is?
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Check your robots.txt file to make sure you didn't disallow anything.
Check to make sure you didn't put a canonical tag on all your pages to point to your homepage.
I looked at your cache and you have 41 pages: http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.energyacuity.com%2F&pws=0&hl=en&num=10
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