Often enough you can tell if search engines are likely to omit your pages just by looking at the URL. Go deep into the site; if its a catalog, for instance, go to the furthest subcategory you can find. Then look at the URL. Suppose that you have a URL like this:
http://www.yourdomain.com/sports/feburary/index.php
This is a normal URL that should have few problems or none. It's a static page - or at least looks like a static page, which what counts. Compare the URL below with the next one:
http://www.yourdomain.com/sports/scores.php?prg=1
The filename ends with ?prg=1. This is almost certainly a databased dynamic page; ?prg=1 is a parameter that is being sent to the server to let it know what information is needed for the Web page. This URL is probably okay, especially for Google, although a few search engines may not like it. Now look below at the other following URL:
http://www.yourdomain.com/catalog/in...ectGroup_ID=58
This URL is worse.It contains three parameteres: DID=15, BADID=19, and ObjectGroup_ID=58. Three parameteres are too much, and Google probably wont index this page.
If you have a clean URL with no parameteres, the search engines should be able to get to it. If you have a single pareametere, it's probably okay for the major search engines, though not necessarily for older systems. If you have two parameters, it may be a problem, or it may not, although two parameteres are more likely to be a problem than a single parameter. Three parameters are almost certainly a problem.
You can also find out if a page in your site is indexed by using the following techniques below:
- If you have the Google toolbar, open the page you want to check and then click the i button and select Cached Snapshot of Page. Or go to Google and type cahce YourURL, where YourURL is the URL of the site you're interested in. If Google displays a cahced page, it's there, of course. If Google doesnt display it, move to the next technique.
- Go to Google and type th URL of the page into the text box and click Search. If the page is in the index, Google displays some information about it.
- Use similiar techniques with other search engines if you want to check them for your page.
- If none of the techniques work, and you still dont have your page indexed try going to a popular forum which will allow signatures and post it with YourURL inside it for easy indexing.
So, there you have it, I certainly hope this will be of some help to you all reading this.
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