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arnarn - 5:13 pm on Mar 13, 2008 (gmt 0)
i'd like to solicit comment on a not so hypothetical site, long established site with: 2) a storefront which serves pages from the categories, but the page information has an embedded iframe with the all the (non commercial) information provided with an inline frame (iframe). 3) Over the years, with code changes, directory renaming, etc etc.. there are LOTS of rewrite/redirect rules 4) Google has managed (not surprisingly, given the changes and things done over the site's history) to index most of the store's pages, but only a handful of the "real content" pages, and when that's done (indexing of "real content" pages), it's only a few pages for each category (usually the list or table of contents for the category). BTW category content pages have relevant title, description, etc. Another option? is to start over with a new site and gradually link or rewrite everything to the new site? .
Having seen the recent thread about sitemaps and going thru numerous other comments about rewrites and ideas on how to make a site more palitable to Google (and others, too)... 1) information organized in categories (brand names) at the 1st level and beneath each category are elements of interest (products).
Is there some way of phasing out the store directory and (hopefully) getting more visibility on our content pages? If we'd like to totally cut out the store directory (via robots.txt or noindex all of the pages), would sitemaps be of any help in directing Google figure out where we have our "best" information? (sitemaps has never been used with this site and there is reluctance b.c. of the negative publicity that it could hurt).