hart084

hello again

Could anyone tell me why google can not see my internal or my external links on my site www.thewaterbuttshop.co.uk . Also MSN can't see my other pages to my website either. Is there a problem with my site, as in all the major search engines can't find my other pages either due to a problem with my links??

Cheers

Harty

Ross

This has worked for a few sites I have worked on in the last few months...

1) Generate a sitemap http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/ (free up to 500 pages)
2) Sign up to google webmaster (it's free) then point google to your sitemap (but make sure you validate your site with google) https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin?service=sitemaps&nui=1&continue=https ://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/siteoverview%3Fhl%3Den&hl=en

Hope this helps.

Keniki

Ok without going into detail on this search engines are protecting you and your site from some darker forces on the net right now. So relax stop worrying about that site: command or link: command and just continue to build your site.

Ross for security reasons I would not recommend the use of free online sitemap generators. By using this type of service you run the risk of having all your content scraped and republished elsewhere whilst the sitemap is generated. I hope very soon google will provide a free sitemap generator tool within webmaster tools.

gobeyond

I looked at your html code and it seems like you created your menu with Javascript. If your internal links are embedded inside javascript, spiders won't be able to find them. Spiders skip all javascripts.

You either need to build a sitemap or use some plain html code somewhere on your pages to create links that can be understood by spiders.

The best way to create menu is to use html and css.

Accurax

writing youir own site map isnt the most difficult thing in the world.... if u can write xhtml then xml (at this basic level) is not difficult to grasp

Marc

I get Google sitemaps free - with my host (1and1).

spinal007

Interesting responses...

Here's my two cents:
Accurax is right, your navigation is created via Javascript. Without executing the script (which spiders don't do) there are no links for them to follow so your pages aren't indexed.

See attached image: That's what your website looks like to spiders. No navigation, no links.

Ross's suggestion of a Google sitemap is one way to get your pages indexed, but it doesn't not fix the problem: your pages don't link to each other (with standard <a..> tags).

Either way, it's easy to create a sitemap (as Accurax later suggested), you can see mine for example or read the instructions from Google.

Keniki's idea that using a free sitemap generator is a security risk is non-sense. The sitemap generator reads your pages and creates a list of all links it finds.
1. Your content (and thousands of other people's) has no value to them.
2. Search engines index your pages and store their contents. You want search engines to index your pages so this is obviously OK with you.
3. People don't need a sitemap generator to steal content. Search engine spiders do that quite well...

Also, I don't think a sitemap generator will work on your website because they don't execute scripts either. So the generator won't find any links to follow...

So, to sum it all up:
Ditch the Javascript navigation, use static HTML and link to your pages.

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Asiadeep

I think Spinal007 has absolutely hit it on the head. The core when it comes to search engines is to the KISS principle (Keep it Simple Stupid). HTML everything unless you absolutely need javascript.