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MS Office Forum / Publisher / Web Design / June 2005Broken internal links, Spiderability
My website works properly, but search engine spiders are not able to crawl my site. Specifically I am using a program called TrafficBlazer. This reviewed my site and assures me that my site is not spiderable due to broken links and my Google rank is 1 out of 10 (10 being the best, 1 being the worst). The name of my site is www.minneapolishomeinspections.com. I have been trying to figure this out for months and don't know what else to do. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance for your time and consideration. I'm not an expert on how the search engines work (most people don't really know). My advice would be to go to googles URL submission page and submit each page url and/or locate their contact form and ask them if they might know the cause they don't spider the pages. http://www.google.com/intl/en/about.html I'd also suggest pulling your raw log files and review them for "robot" hits and see what pages they do hit and see if they get an error code. You might even ask your host support about any error codes and see if they have some advice. Entering your domain name in google I get a hit so it is clear that they found your site. But I can't explain your inquiry. Links are not broken by any definition I know of. David Bartosik - [MSFT MVP] www.publishermvps.com www.davidbartosik.com > My website works properly, but search engine spiders are not able to crawl > my [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > be > greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance for your time and consideration. Thanks for the reply Davd. I resubmitted the website and unchecked the "keep folders organized" folder thinking that maybe the reason none of the internal links where recognized was that they were hidden in a sub folder. This still doesn't work. I cannot find any books or anyone with knowledge of Publisher 2003 that can help point me in the right direction. I have saved my website as a web page and tried uploading it many different ways. The only page searchable by any websites is my homepage. The internal links are obviously there, so how can they not be recognized. I attached the excerpt from Traffic Blazer stating what is wrong with the site. I hope someone can help shed some light on broken internal links. Traffic Blazer found broken internal hyperlinks on your Web site. Broken links block search spiders and end users from accessing parts of your Web site. Consider fixing or removing the broken links from your site. http://www.minneapolishomeinspections.com/index_contactus.htm http://www.minneapolishomeinspections.com/POCLINK:DEFAULT http://www.minneapolishomeinspections.com/index_pricing.htm http://www.minneapolishomeinspections.com/POCLINK:DEFAULT http://www.minneapolishomeinspections.com/index_samplereport.htm http://www.minneapolishomeinspections.com/POCLINK:DEFAULT http://www.minneapolishomeinspections.com/index_standardsofpractice.htm http://www.minneapolishomeinspections.com/POCLINK:DEFAULT http://www.minneapolishomeinspections.com/index_letterfrommatt.htm http://www.minneapolishomeinspections.com/POCLINK:DEFAULT http://www.minneapolishomeinspections.com/index_aboutus.htm http://www.minneapolishomeinspections.com/POCLINK:DEFAULT Your site's internal links are broken. The site cannot be spidered. It is strongly recommended that you fix the broken links so that spiders and Web site visitors can navigate the site. inline... > Thanks for the reply Davd. I resubmitted the website and unchecked the > "keep [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > still > doesn't work. that shouldn't make any difference, the path is still a path. I cannot find any books or anyone with knowledge of Publisher > 2003 that can help point me in the right direction. that's this forum and http://www.publishermvps.com I have saved my website > as a web page and tried uploading it many different ways. that's actually probably not a good thing. you want the link paths to stay the same. The only page > searchable by any websites is my homepage. The internal links are > obviously [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > some > light on broken internal links. I have no idea why it indicates good href tags with a valid file path as broken. I have no idea why google apparently doesn't read that. Your updated post does bring something new to my attention, the POCLINK:DEFAULT href. I have no idea what that is for. It would make sense that would be a broken link, that's obvious. I'm going to ask MS about it, see what it means and what's for. Rather that will shed any light on why valid links are ignored I don't know. I do once again highly recommend you follow the trouble-shooting steps I outlined in my response and post back with results. David Bartosik - [MSFT MVP] www.publishermvps.com www.davidbartosik.com Thanks David. When I did a search of POCLINK:DEFAULT on google it came back with numerous responses, all of which were from Publisher created web pages. Everything appears great on the surface, but I believe the problem is in the code. I am going to add another navigation bar to my pages at the bottom to see if the web crawlers can follow that, otherwise I am all out of ideas. Telll Bill Gates to give me a call.
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