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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.