Re: How do I get Google to crawl a WebCat site?
This WebDNA talk-list message is from 2003
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texte = It's the same process ...Let's look at CXS and for example say we want to search for X-Ray Film1.) First we look at cxsonline.com/ --- Doesn't contain the text X-Ray Film but leads us to: 2.) www.cxsonline.com/text/catalog.tmpl --- Still doesn't contain our text X-Ray Film but leads us to: 2.) www.cxsonline.com/text/summarypage.tmpl --- Again, doesn't contain our text X-Ray Film but leads us to: 3.) /www.cxsonline.com/text/detailpage.tmpl --- Ah, finally we fine the words X-Ray FilmThe first three pages aren't relevant to our search at all as far as the search engines are concerned. In other words these pages are not very interesting at all to the search engine because they contain no textual information and that's what they eat! : c)Sorry to go on about this but that's just the way I see it.Good luck.On Thursday, March 13, 2003, at 11:50 AM, Dennis J. Bonsall, Jr. wrote:>> Now all this high tech sales speech sounds fantastic but what does >> it >> say about the products I'm searching the web for? Nothing! >> >> The words X-Ray Film, Illuminators, Exam Tables, X-Ray Chemistry, Film >> Processors and Electrotherapy are all graphics!!! How am I ever going >> to find this page in the text-based world of the internet? I'm not! >> Well neither is Google and neither are your customers. >> > > My goal is not so much to get the home page indexed (it already is), > but to get the > rest of the site indexed. There is no way that I could get the home > page to > contain all the relevant information I want to show up in search > results, without > it becoming an non-sensical mess. But, I cannot get any search > engines to follow > the other links on the home page. The other pages (especially the > catalog pages) > are rich in textual content. These are the pages that I want indexed. > In essence, > they should act like entry pages to the site. If someone finds a > match in a > search engine to a page within the catalog, I do not care whether they > start at the > home page or not - just so long as they make it there. The no-cache > issue > previously mentioned sounds like a plausible reason. > > As for search results, I am not complaining about not finding the site > in search > engines, but the fact that it is not being indexed in the first place. > I can > search google for cxsonline.com and get a match on the home page. > But it is when > I read through my web logs and search for googlebot that I see that it > goes no > further than the home page. > > Thanks, > > Dennis > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > the mailing list
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It's the same process ...Let's look at CXS and for example say we want to search for X-Ray Film1.) First we look at cxsonline.com/ --- Doesn't contain the text X-Ray Film but leads us to: 2.) www.cxsonline.com/text/catalog.tmpl --- Still doesn't contain our text X-Ray Film but leads us to: 2.) www.cxsonline.com/text/summarypage.tmpl --- Again, doesn't contain our text X-Ray Film but leads us to: 3.) /www.cxsonline.com/text/detailpage.tmpl --- Ah, finally we fine the words X-Ray FilmThe first three pages aren't relevant to our search at all as far as the search engines are concerned. In other words these pages are not very interesting at all to the search engine because they contain no textual information and that's what they eat! : c)Sorry to go on about this but that's just the way I see it.Good luck.On Thursday, March 13, 2003, at 11:50 AM, Dennis J. Bonsall, Jr. wrote:>> Now all this high tech sales speech sounds fantastic but what does >> it >> say about the products I'm searching the web for? Nothing! >> >> The words X-Ray Film, Illuminators, Exam Tables, X-Ray Chemistry, Film >> Processors and Electrotherapy are all graphics!!! How am I ever going >> to find this page in the text-based world of the internet? I'm not! >> Well neither is Google and neither are your customers. >> > > My goal is not so much to get the home page indexed (it already is), > but to get the > rest of the site indexed. There is no way that I could get the home > page to > contain all the relevant information I want to show up in search > results, without > it becoming an non-sensical mess. But, I cannot get any search > engines to follow > the other links on the home page. The other pages (especially the > catalog pages) > are rich in textual content. These are the pages that I want indexed. > In essence, > they should act like entry pages to the site. If someone finds a > match in a > search engine to a page within the catalog, I do not care whether they > start at the > home page or not - just so long as they make it there. The no-cache > issue > previously mentioned sounds like a plausible reason. > > As for search results, I am not complaining about not finding the site > in search > engines, but the fact that it is not being indexed in the first place. > I can > search google for cxsonline.com and get a match on the home page. > But it is when > I read through my web logs and search for googlebot that I see that it > goes no > further than the home page. > > Thanks, > > Dennis > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > the mailing list . > To unsubscribe, E-mail to: > To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to > > Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/ > > Signed: Marc Kaiwi ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/
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