Hi there,

I've built a site with quite a bit of content and would like to have that site searchable via Google. Google has indexed the first page, but only that first page - and none of the words used in the text of the page can be found with google. Basically, Google only returns the title (or possibly the domain name).

I've included the page in Google sitemaps, but still: none of the subpages appear (after a few weeks of having this up and running). Google sitemaps doesn't complain about any errors - everything seems fine from the perspective. But still: most of the content seems to be "invisible" to Google.

I've noticed that the MLTreeView I'm using doesn't seem to create "real links", so I've added a little text that includes all sections of the page in the first page. This one also has a link to the English version of the page (page is localized using this whole "ML"-localization suite). So, theoretically, Google should easily be able to spider through that whole page, and according to information given in Google sitemaps - it looks as if Google visits the page quite frequently.

But still: when I use site:www.mapushan-europe.org any keyword that appears on the page, none of the words are found.

Since I'm having a bunch of "plain HTML"-pages which perfectly haven been indexed by Google, I was wondering if this could have anything to do with DotNetNuke - but if that was the case, there should be lots of complaints, and so far, I haven't found any.

Does anybody know what the problem could be? Am I just too impatient? Is the page maybe "not important enough" from the pagerank perspective (we don't have a lot of external links pointing to the page, yet)?

If you want to check out the page, you can go to www.mapushan-europe.org - I've double checked the HTML-code and stylesheets for anything that Google might dislike (display:none; visibility:hidden; and the like), but that's also fine.

kind regards,

David

Use a tool like http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/internet/google/googlebot-spoofer/index.htm to see what googlebot sees when it looks at your page.

On a quick glance, it looks like all the internal links from the menu on the left are going to be lost because it uses javascript. Add a simple links module to the skin to make it friendlier to crawlers. Also, check the site log for the googlebot user agent, you can see which pages were crawled and when.

Did you look at the stats at the webmaster pages on google for last crawl, errors, etc?

Google can follow java script links just fine. In fact most of the major search engines can follow the links. Work on getting external links to point to your site. If you can just a few links from sites with PR5 or higher then Google will crawl all over your site. Thats not saying that you are going to get a number one or two spot for your keywords, but Google will start indexing you. I for one do not worry about trying to get in Google spend your time building links and content and then Google will start doing its job.

Bruce