CMS program that have indexing problems
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I am working on optimizing a website that was built with an CMS program. I searched for what pages are indexed on Google using "site:url" command. For some reason none of the pages are indexed on Google. What is the best way to index these web pages?
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Thanks Mat!
I will install Google webmaster once i get the log in information from web designer. I used the SEOmoz campaign and validator.w3.org to figure out if there are any crawl errors. The only crawl errors I found was duplicated page title and content. On the validator i found 24 HTML errors. I did not see any any no follow or blocked spiders or no index.
The URL structure has a "shop.domainname.com" instead of a "www.domainname.com". I could switch hosting services and fix this issue could this be the problem?
I have seen similar scenarios before I think this is the issue. Thanks again!
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If NO pages at all have been indexed then the first thing to check is that you are not blocking google. the easiest way to check all the most likely issues there is to get your site registered on google webmaster tools and then look for any crawl errors.
However if you want to check manually start with the robots.txt file - make sure that there are not any disallows in there. If there are then make sure that they are not blocking the mail content (if you are not sure then post the contents back here - happy to look). Also look in the source code of the page for any "no index" instructions.
If neither of those flag up problems then you need to ask does Google know about the site? Has it been linked to from external places, or submitted? How long since it went live.
If you post (or message me) the URL I'd be happy to take a quick look for you.
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