Help With SEO

Last week, I successfully finished this site for a client, and submitted the site to Google and yahoo. http://www.password-reset.com/. I created a sitemap and even uploaded that to yahoo and google. Throughout this whole week, only my index.php page got indexed. The old pages of the site that don't exist anymore are still showing up in google/yahoo results. But the current pages other than index.php have still not been indexed.

Why is this? How can it be fixed? Also, could using the PHP include script for the navigation and footer navigation be causing this problem?

This is just the bots taking time. New and revised sites don't get indexed right away. It can take a weke or two if you're lucky. If not, it can take months.

If you are worried, the best thing is to put 301 redirects from the old pages to the new pages... and I mean EVERY ONE of the old pages to the new pages. Leave them in place for 6 months and when the new pages are indexed you can remove then.

Apart from that, jsut sit back and wait. If they have enough decent backlinks then they'll get indexed soon enough.

It has nothing to do with php include scripts. Because search engines index the html output from the server. So any server side scripts which generates html code for the browser( or spiders) is ok. One week is not too much of time if the site is new. You need to wait. Have you created a google webmasters account for the site and submitted xml sitemap there?

I noticed some of my pages just got indexed. Just waiting for the other ones to get indexed to. Also, what is 301 redirect? How do I redirect old pages that don't exist anymore? Also, the site is not new. It just got redesigned.

Just as I said, it takes time, but you will get there. Jsut got to be patient.

Do a search for "301 redirect" and you'll find a lot of resources for it. There's several differnt ways of doing it, so it depends on what's going to work best for you.

Zythyr,
By doing 301 permanent redirect you can be able to convey spiders/visitors that the requested page has been moved permanently at a new specified location. You can go for 301 Redirect using .htaccess : ( On LINUX server )

Actually on any server running Apache.