[pmwiki-users] help: Google not indexing the entire site

Ben Wilson dausha at gmail.com
Thu Jun 1 10:49:14 CDT 2006


As a rule, Google should be crawling every page. The ones they index
fit a set of criteria that can be found in the Google area on web
masters.

First, are you using EnablePathInfo? Google tends to discount what it
views are dynamially generated pages. So, if your pages are served ala
http://www.example.org/pmwiki.php?n=Main.WikiSandbox, then Google will
sample a few pages and be done with it. At least, that's what they
claim.

If you are using EnablePathInfo, then the next question is whether you
can access every page on your site in three clicks. This is supposed
to be a best business practice of web development, but I'm not sure of
the adherence. This is supposed to be a positive factor for Google. I
have a list of quick bookmarks that contains information on improving
Google page ranking.[1] That page is just my quick bookmarks, random
stuff I find interesting. I occasionally sift through it and keep the
pearls. What is there is about six months of clicking with no sifting.
Just do a Find for "Google" and the links will pop up.

Consider the Cookbook:GoogleSiteMap.[2] Also, if this is a significant
issue, I would suggest joining a Google group on the subject. They
talk about the Google issues in pretty exhaustive detail.

[1] http://dausha.net/Bookmarks/QuickBookmarks
[2] http://pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/GoogleSitemaps

On 6/1/06, Santosh Maharshi <santoshkumar at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Friends,
>
>  I am a pretty new to wiki and a not a programmer. I was playing around with
> Pmwiki and came across this issue.
>
>  I want google to index all the pages available , but its just indexing the
> home page and nothing else.
>
>  My Local Config includes:
>   $UrlLinkFmt =
>     "<a class='urllink' href='\$LinkUrl'>\$LinkText</a>";
>   $MetaRobots = 'index,follow';
>
>  Please help me out
>
>  Thanks in advance
>  Santosh
>
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