Profile indexing on large-scale sites

Hi all,

I've got a bit of a doozy for ya—hope someone can help!

I'm doing freelance SEO content work for a client whose site includes thousands of profiles, only some of which are indexed. That makes sense to me, given that there's not really enough content on each one for Google to see them as index-worthy; as such, most of them get the "Discovered—not currently indexed" error.

There are too many profiles to try and request indexing one-by-one, so I *think* I've figured out a workaround—I just don't know how exactly to do it.

Basically, when you search someone’s name in Google with the modifier “LinkedIn”, the LinkedIn results include indexed profiles, as well as a result that says "100+ {Name} Profiles". I assume this is because LI hasn't indexed all the thousands/millions of profiles on their site. When you click on that link, it goes straight to the LinkedIn search page, with the name search already executed.

I have a hard time believing that LinkedIn individually indexes different name-search pages one by one, so I'm guessing they've found some sort of way to get their search page to dynamically execute a search when someone Googles a name that exists on LinkedIn. Does have any idea whatsoever how they're able to do that?

Really, really appreciate everyone's help in advance! And yes, unfortunately, the clients wants all of their profiles indexed in one way or another.

I love your Name
I'll bump it for that lol
BTW no idea, but I do use profiles on large parasites and they index fine.
Also I had a memes autoblogger once and I notice in console indexing do slowly go off old (deindex) posts.. sorry cant be more hepful.. but great first question heres a like

ATuringtest said:

I love your Name
I'll bump it for that lol
BTW no idea, but I do use profiles on large parasites and they index fine.
Also I had a memes autoblogger once and I notice in console indexing do slowly go off old (deindex) posts.. sorry cant be more hepful.. but great first question heres a like

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Thanks so much; really really appreciate it!

allison_chainzz said:

Thanks so much; really really appreciate it!

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I get some good re indexing results by using a search and replace plugin if ur using WordPress.
Just find a word in the profile that has a decent synonym and replace it. Like refreshing posts.
Hope it helps.

You'll want to check these profiles for attributes such as noindex robots tags or http headers, blocks in robots.txt etc before you actively start trying to index them. Many profiles are noindex'd by default - it's best to make sure they're actually indexable in the first place before spending any resources trying to get them indexed.