Certain subpages not showing up in Google

My company's site is having an odd issue with subpage listings. It's a business school and we want a search for a faculty member's name to give their personal page as linked on http://rady.ucsd.edu/faculty/directory/ from within our custom google search engine. The strange thing is that some of these work and some don't, yet they're all clearly linked from that same directory page.

For example, try searching for "David Schkade" in the search box at the top right. This returns his page first, as expected. Now try searching for "Vish Krishnan". His page does not show up in the results at all, let alone as the top entry. I've submitted an XML sitemap to Google in the hopes that may help. Any other ideas on why not all of these pages are indexed? Thanks in advance.

Do you have a robots.txt file restricting it?

We do use a robots.txt file and I noticed it had several outdated entries. However, none of them included the faculty directory. In any case, the file is now cleaned up.

Well now wait a few days for Google to index your page and see if any changes are made .

Create a XML sitemap and submit it to google. This will then tell google that the page exsits and that it needs to be indexed.

This will be the quickest method of getting the page indexed.

XML sitemaps can be submitted through google.com/webmaster

Hi Perceptes.
An xml file is going to do you jack TBH.
The file is easy indexable off the home page by a page to the faculty directory then a link straight to the page for each teacher, if Google cant find that with out help then somethings up and a xml file is not going to cure it, or the underlying problem.

The faculty directory page is not indexed which is a reason why it's not found as it is directly linked off that page and also the page you gave that is indexed, but that is weird as that page is a sub link off your global navigation and should be 1 of the first pages to be indexed.

Your robots.txt file is fine, but you knew that, all the links that I have seen don't use the nofollow attribute and the page doesn't have a meta noindex.

Conculsion if the page is easy to find by a crawler and nothing is blocking it by access, I'm going on the fact that you haven't used a server side search engine block as that I cant tell, is that you are being penalized for something.

I would suggest using base as all your urls are relative and with no base it may cause an issue with the actually file path, TBH thats a long shot as I have never heard of that being an issue before but it is something you can try nonetheless.

How many pages do you have on the site?
Google has 253 pages indexed for -
http://rady.ucsd.edu/

If you have 300+ you know you have a major issue.

If the XML file does solve it and does get it indexed it still doesn't explain the problem, all you have done is circumvented it.

Also how many pages link to the Vish Krishnan page?
Is it just a link off the directory page?
If it is then the problem may be that the page is called directory, again a logical assumption you can try.

Google has stopped indexing pages with the url as links, links page etc.... due to the fact that they are just crap recip pages that have nothing of value and are there to manipuilate the SERPs the problem with Directory and resources are again they are common names for such links pages and as a result Google may not be indexing the page and thus pages off it, thus creating you a problem.

If you have around 258 pages on the whole site and it's only the pages off this page that are having an issue with indexing change the file name to faculty site map or something similar and see if that makes any differance. But it should be fine TBH it should be one of the first pages to be indexed regardless of where the search engine hits your site.

The fact that it isn't is a problem.

Jaza

May be indexed at a lower position, did you checked that? I think you should also update content of specific page and use sitemap as suggested above.

It does say in googles terms and conditions that not all pages are likely to be indexed....?