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04-25-2006 Chris_D's Avatar Chris_D Chris_D is offline Oversees: Searching Tips & Techniques Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Sydney Australia Posts: 1,103 Chris_D has much to be proud ofChris_D has much to be proud ofChris_D has much to be proud ofChris_D has much to be proud ofChris_D has much to be proud ofChris_D has much to be proud ofChris_D has much to be proud ofChris_D has much to be proud ofChris_D has much to be proud of Hi docprego, Set your browser to reject cookies, and then surf your site (I'm assuming it's the one in your profile). now look at your URLS when you reject cookies..... /index.php?cPath=23&osCsid=8cfa2cb83fa9cc92f78db5f4 4abea819 /about_us.php?osCsid=33d0c44757f97f8d5c9c68628eee0e 2b You are appending Cookie strings to the URLS for user agents that reject cookie. That is the biggest problem. Get someone who knows what they are doing to look at your server configuration - its the problem - not Google. Google has always said: Quote: Use a text browser such as Lynx to examine your site, because most search engine spiders see your site much as Lynx would. If fancy features such as JavaScript, cookies, session IDs, frames, DHTML, or Flash keep you from seeing all of your site in a text browser, then search engine spiders may have trouble crawling your site. Allow search bots to crawl your sites without session IDs or arguments that track their path through the site. These techniques are useful for tracking individual user behavior, but the access pattern of bots is entirely different. Using these techniques may result in incomplete indexing of your site, as bots may not be able to eliminate URLs that look different but actually point to the same page. http://www.google.com/webmasters/guidelines.html You've also excluded a few pages in your http port 80 non secure robots.txt which I would have expected that you want to be indexed - like /about_us.php From an information architecture perspective, as Marcia said - put the stuff that n

Questioning the Future of Search By Mike Grehan, ClickZ, Jan 26, 2009 Related Reading New Signals to Search Engines Ajax and Search Engines SuperPages.com Combines Local Search with Social Networking Search Engines Are Allowed to Reject Ads Suggested Searches search engines - social networking - reject ads - static link Subscribe to newsletters Subscribe to RSS feeds Post a comment (0 posted) Last week I presented a Webinar based on the "thought paper" I wrote called, "New Signals To Search Engines." As it was a long read at 23 pages, I highlighted the more salient points, but mainly wanted to try and answer the hundreds of questions I received following its publication. The top question was about social media. It seems that many companies already have barriers to entry. Amy Labroo, associate director of online media at Advantage Business Media, asked specifically about any backlash due to unmonitored content in the social media space. I've come across this situation quite a lot recently. Many companies worry about negative commentary and therefore don't accept comments on their blogs or social network sites. In fact, many haven't started a blog or a dialogue space at a social networking site. This is simply hiding from your audience. If people have negative commentary about you and they can't make it known at your Web site or blog, they'll make it known somewhere else. I advocate putting yourself out there and listening to your audience. Marketing has changed from a broadcast-my-corporate-message medium to a listening medium. The voice of the customer is very, very loud online. And those companies that still believe they own their brand and the message may well be in for a bit of shock as brands are hijacked by customers. Let your customers have their say. Keyword-driven marketing is all about understanding the language of the customer and creating marketing messages in that language. From time to time, I meet with creative agencies and almost always end u