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Hi Everyone

I’m a noob to SEO and have been following various advice articles from the net to get a ranking on google with mixed success, but my main question is why google seems to only index my links page and not the pages behind it.

e.g. if I search for specific words on my links page, it is usually the 1st page returned :) however, if I search for words on my information pages which are linked as follows:

<span style="color: #0000ff"><a href="Info/myinfopage.htm" target="_blank">Info</a></span>

I get nothing, literally an empty google search page. These links work fine when clicked.

I’ve submitted a sitemap with all pages contained and this is successfully read with no errors every 5-6 days. I also have inbound links and have used trafficswarm.

Can anyone suggest what I’m doing wrong here?

Thanks

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described a case where a top-level links page is crawlable and appears in results but the linked “info” pages do not. That pattern usually points at indexability or crawl problems rather than pure promotion. is correct that getting external visibility speeds discovery, but promotion won’t help if Google is being told (explicitly or implicitly) not to index the target pages.

A short checklist to diagnose the problem quickly:

  • Confirm each info page returns an HTTP 200 and not a 4xx/5xx or a soft-404. Example:

    curl -I https://example.com/Info/myinfopage.htm

    Look for HTTP/1.1 200 OK and absence of X-Robots-Tag: noindex.

  • Verify robots rules and meta/X-Robots-Tag headers do not block the pages, and that no rel="canonical" points back to the links page.

  • Ensure the pages are reachable via plain HTML links (not only via JavaScript or forms) and that links are not marked rel="nofollow".

  • Check for very thin or duplicate content that Google may treat as “not worth indexing” (soft 404). Each page should have distinct, useful content and a descriptive title/meta description.

Use a webmaster tool to inspect one of the problem URLs (URL Inspection in Search Console) to see crawl status, last crawl, and any coverage reason (e.g., blocked by robots, crawled — currently not indexed, alternate with proper canonical). Server logs will confirm whether Googlebot requested the pages.

Fix any technical blockers first, improve page-level uniqueness and internal linking depth, then request indexing. External promotion accelerates discovery but only after the pages are indexable.

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You may need to put more efforts into it. If you want to index any of your page you can bookmark on some sites like digg, mixx etc. With in two days that page will be indexed (This really works for me) . But more important thing is to put quality contents on your website because google likes quality contents. Btw this also concentrate on getting quality backlinks.

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Thanks for the reply. I'm doing this now and it is certaily helping!

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