Google Tool for links indexing?

[gvanto]

For my site I have pages that are created dynamically, but using url rewriting, for example:

http://webcv.com.au/gvanto can be indexed but I need to somehow let the search engine crawlers know that the link exists.

Is there a google tool or something to let google know that certain links on your website actually exists so it can index it?

help much appreciated!
g
seo newbie

[cursal]

login into your google account and click on webmaster tools.
There are many ways to help google help you.

Sitemap is a good first step.

[JohnNapoletano]

Originally Posted by gvanto

For my site I have pages that are created dynamically, but using url rewriting, for example:

http://webcv.com.au/gvanto can be indexed but I need to somehow let the search engine crawlers know that the link exists.

Is there a google tool or something to let google know that certain links on your website actually exists so it can index it?

help much appreciated!
g
seo newbie

Create a sitemap.xml file, visit http://www.sitemaps.org/protocol.php for details. Keep the file simple and don't use an automated tool to create the Sitemap.xml unless you realy have a lot of pages (Wordpress Plugin is an exception, that's easy to use). Use a simple Excel formula to build out the code fast if you know how.

Keep in mind one of the most important things about SEO: You need links within your content to other pages of your site. In other words, Google should be able to navigate naturally through your site from Home Page to the last page following your Sidebar and content text links. If you don't have this basic structure then SEO is not what you are doing. Hope this helps.

[gvanto]

Cheers John,

Submitting a sitemap - will this make the sublinks come up when the site comes up in a google search result?

thanks much for the help,
gvanto

Originally Posted by JohnNapoletano

Create a sitemap.xml file, visit http://www.sitemaps.org/protocol.php for details. Keep the file simple and don't use an automated tool to create the Sitemap.xml unless you realy have a lot of pages (Wordpress Plugin is an exception, that's easy to use). Use a simple Excel formula to build out the code fast if you know how.

Keep in mind one of the most important things about SEO: You need links within your content to other pages of your site. In other words, Google should be able to navigate naturally through your site from Home Page to the last page following your Sidebar and content text links. If you don't have this basic structure then SEO is not what you are doing. Hope this helps.

[JohnNapoletano]

Originally Posted by gvanto

Cheers John,

Submitting a sitemap - will this make the sublinks come up when the site comes up in a google search result?

thanks much for the help,
gvanto

Hi Gvanto. I just looked for the sitemap but it's not there in your root directory http://www.webcv.com.au/sitemap.xml Also no hint in your robots.txt file. Maybe specify a couple of links that you are trying to get indexed in a reply. Also, you should pick up a log analyzer that has a Robots Report in it. I use the old ClickTracks software because I paid too much for it and I'm too cheap to update myself. But it still works and has a Robot Report which shows me a list of all my urls down the left, column headings for Google, Yahoo, MSN etc with the table data being the last day the page was visited by the spider. If an important link was never spidered then it wasn't found, at least one or more internal links have to be created to point at it to fix the problem.

A sitemap.xml file is really one web page with a long list of links. It only tells Google, Yahoo, Live/MSN that the urls exist. The first thing you will notice on a new site is that Google, for example, visits 3 pages first: Home Page, robots.txt, and sitemap.xml. After that it becomes a Quality issue. Just because you list all your urls in the sitemap.xml file doesn't mean they will all be indexed. You need a decent internal linking structure.

Robot Report + site:webcv.com.au

Go to google.com and type in "site:webcv.com.au" and note that you have 21 pages indexed. Do the same for Yahoo and Live/MSN. That's your starting point. Test your skills to see how many more you can get indexed. Hope this helps.