WordPress.org

1. Anonymous
   Unregistered
   Posted 5 years ago #

   At the moment, only the homepage of my blog is indexed by Google. How can I make Google follow the links on my homepage?

2. gpshewan
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   <meta name="robots" content="all" />
   Works for me
   Here's a more detailed explanation
   http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/meta-user.html

3. Anonymous
   Unregistered
   Posted 5 years ago #

   OK, that's worth a try!

4. Anonymous
   Unregistered
   Posted 5 years ago #

   I might have to wait a little but longer but at the moment, Google still shows only the homepage of my blog and has not indexed any further pages so that Google would offer "more results from..." In addition, I have discovered that most blogs suffer from this problem. Is is even solvable?

5. chiensavant
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   I believe Google does not follow links that contains a question mark. So make sure your Uri are rewrited by your .htaccess file accordingly.

6. skebrown
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   Just out of curiosity, has the "post-slug" or "re-write" method been proven to work with regards to Google indexing and or cacheing pages?

7. southernapproach
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   @chiensavant: Does a question mark in the URI matter? I'm the author of http://www.southernapproach.ch and up to now, only the front page of my blog is recognised by Google. Other URIs are scanned according to the log file, but they are not included in the index of Google.
   Does Google ignore WordPress URIs? My blog is not the only one that is ignored by Google...

8. TechGnome
   Moderator
   Posted 5 years ago #

   southernapproach -- isn't that what he said? If the links contain ? in it, it won't follow it. That's why many people have opted for the permalink options allowed by WP and .htaccess.
   I've got mine setup to use the SEF (Search Engine Friendly) permalinks and Google has never had a problem indexing my site. It works almost too well as I used to get hit with spam on a lot of my older posts.
   TG

9. Anonymous
   Unregistered
   Posted 5 years ago #

   OK. How have I to change my .htaccess configuration - the current .htaccess file was created by WP 1.3 under development - to make my URIs SEF?

10. TechGnome
    Moderator
    Posted 5 years ago #

    1.3 or 1.2?
    in 1.2 goto the admin area, click "Options" then "Permalinks"
    Read through the options there, and set your permalink structure the way you want it.
    When done, click the "Update Permalink Structure" button. The text box should populate with the necessary rules you need. Copy that and stuff it into your .htaccess file (which you should be able to get to from the "Templates" menu option.
    TG

11. Anonymous
    Unregistered
    Posted 5 years ago #

    I'm already using permalinks, TechGnome (sorry for not logging in with my username, I'm not at home right now), so I might simply have to wait a few more days or weeks to get indexed by Google.
    Thank you for your patient advice! :)

12. skebrown
    Member
    Posted 5 years ago #

    Hi folks,
    I guess poeple are still guessing as to whether or not Google indexes and caches pages with or without the "?" questionmark?
    I beleive that Google will cache your pages with or without. Try searching Google for the terms "wap Gmail" and tell me if the third link down is titled "skebrown >> Gmail on wap"? And then tell me if the link that you are taken to is in fact "http://skebrown.com/index.php?p=315".
    To me it's obvious that Google DOES index more than just the monthly archive and index pages of one's website.
    Do you agree? Disagree? Is this a good example and does it help?

13. Root
    Member
    Posted 5 years ago #

    When you say Google is not indexing anything other than index what is the search that you are carrying out ?

14. Anonymous
    Unregistered
    Posted 5 years ago #

    I'm very sorry, chiensavant, I don't know all my about 500 passwords off by heart...

15. fuchs
    Member
    Posted 5 years ago #

    Google loves the permanent links created by WordPress! My blog is scanned a few times ago and new entries usually appear just a few hours after publication in the blog... great! :)

16. Sushubh
    Member
    Posted 5 years ago #

    google has no problems with dynamic urls. though urls with more than 2-3 levels of values might cause problems.

17. podz
    Support Maven
    Posted 5 years ago #

    I've no meta tags, yet I had to email Google to stop hitting me so much. The daily log I sent them had 591 hits from googlebot.

18. Sushubh
    Member
    Posted 5 years ago #

    it all depends upon what kind of incoming links you have.

19. Anonymous
    Unregistered
    Posted 5 years ago #

    Podz, that isn't too bad really considering the amount of content you have.
    An important part of SEO is patience.

20. Sushubh
    Member
    Posted 5 years ago #

    some of google's crawlers literally lives on my test board. :)

21. rafiqza
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #

    Google indexes your blog in the googleblog search index.

22. rafiqza
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #

    I checked today & all pages we're indexed http://google.com/search?q=site%3Awww.rafiq.za.net

    I didn't do anything but blog. I suppose it takes some patience?

23. drelizabeth
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    how can i make sef url, like home/aboutus/phone/

Topic Closed

This topic has been closed to new replies.