Only a small portion of my site is indexed

Selected answers from the Dumb SEO Questions Facebook & G+ community.

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  Brenda Malone: Is your site very large? If so, just wait for Google to come back and visit those pages.
  
  IF your site is small (under 500-1000 pages), and this notice persists for the same number of pages, then evaluate the quality of your content — it could be that Google doesn`t think it`s not worthy of their time. The confusing thing about this status is that any content quality issues aren`t limited to the listed URLs, it could be a site-wide issue.
  
  
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  Brenda Malone: What does a site: search show?
  
  
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  Ruben Nunez: Brenda Malone how do I run that search. is it site:URL ? When I do that I only see 2 of my own pages in the site results.
  
  
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  Josh Levenson: Are they linked to internally. Is decent quality content. Google doesn`t like to showcase poor quality content.
  
  
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  Ruben Nunez: high quality content (all well written and researched) and since most of it is blog / articles, its found both on my homepage feed and on the blog page itself.
  
  
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  Michael Zittel: Do you have canonical tags set? Share a URL of the EXCLUDED page and the wizards will take a look.
  
  
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  Ruben Nunez: I don`t know exactly what that means.
  
  
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  Michael Zittel: Ruben Nunez In Google search console, I believe it will show you what url was EXCLUDED. Share that with the group. The SEO "wizards" will take a look and hopefully help you out.
  
  
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  Ruben Nunez: I see. Let me post that in the main tread.
  
  
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  Ruben Nunez: Thanks guys. Its not a large site. Under 100 pages. Its high quality content that I know would rank very highly for my keywords. I`m an "expert" in that field the site is focusing on, and the content is well researched. Yes, its linked internally, and the majority are blog articles that are linked from both a homepage blog feed and the blog page. I purposely left out my URL, but I can add it here if you guys think I should.
  
  
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  Ruben Nunez: My url is https://motuvintagevariants.com. Its all about technical toy info about a particular toy line I`m into.
  
  From there, every single article is "excluded". So everything here shows as excluded in search console:https://motuvintagevariants.com/blogs/mvv
  
  And 2 pages that I`ve spent ages working on to get right are also completely excluded:https://motuvintagevariants.com/pages/figure-checklisthttps://motuvintagevariants.com/pages/mini-comic-checklist
  
  Can you guys help figure out if there`s something I`m totally missing or something broken that is making google not index my most important pages?
  
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  Syed Saiful Islam: Ruben Nunez I analyze your website it has some errors to fix until you don`t fix those errors your website will never be indexed by Google.
  
  
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  Josh Levenson: Maybe give it some more time. Your blog is indexed. I might try adding a sentence or two at the op of your /pages*. Just a hunch. Love the HeMan flashbacks from childhood.
  
  
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  Ruben Nunez: Thanks Josh. My hope is exactly that. That the site is new and I just need to give it time to let google run its course. Can you clarify what you mean about adding a sentence or two on the op? Would you mean making the opening paragraph a bit longer?
  
  
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  Josh Levenson: Exactly. Right before you get into the countries. Like I said, just a hunch. Dont` be afraid of linking out either. Good luck.
  
  
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  Ruben Nunez: Josh Levenson thanks!
  
  
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  Buth Main: I`ve noticed that indexing takes a bit more time than a few months ago. So, I think you need to wait 1-2 weeks. There are many ways to drive the referral traffic, if you need that.Also, Googlers says that it can be related to "a site quality". But they don`t provide the detailed info or definition of a website quality. I worked with a website in a similar niche and your site looks good at first glance.