Q and A: Why aren't search engines indexing beyond my home page?

Dear Kalena...

I have recently opened up my website but till now, only my homepage has been indexed. I cannot understand what I am doing wrong. I will attempt doing a sitemap submit but I am still not sure that I will be able to complete it correctly. Any advice is appreciated.

Regards
Gokarn

Kalena's Answer:

Dear Gokarn

If you had included your site URL in your question submission, I might have been able to provide more help!

All I can do is guess at the problem. If only your homepage is being indexed, it could be one of the following problems:

1) Your site is still experiencing Google's aging delay for new sites.

2) You haven't correctly submitted an XML sitemap to Google Sitemaps.

3) You don't have any incoming links pointing to pages beyond your home page.

4) You don't have an adequate internal site-map to enable search engine spiders to find and index all your site pages.

5) You don't have search engine-friendly navigation or text-based internal linking structure.

6) All pages except for your home page are dynamic in nature and created on the fly (not flat HTML). Dynamic pages are often not indexed by search engines unless included in an XML sitemap.

Send me your site URL and I can be more specific.
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