I have a website that requires users to enter their Date of Birth into a form in order to gain access to the rest of the site. There is no other link into site from this point, therefore the Spiders have not indexed any other pages beyond the Splash. Does anyone know a solution to this without placing a link in normal text on the page (which would defeat the purpose of having a date of birth form) Thanks in advance, Velo.
SEOMike
7:28 pm on Aug 19, 2004 (gmt 0)
Well, my first thought would be to submit your sitemap to free submission places. There's a backdoor into a Google Free submit and a Yahoo one too. You can also submit internal pages to ODP (they have an adult section I think... I'm just guessing that's what you are promoting) and that should get the spiders coming.
I'm sure there are other ways, but those just popped in my head. Hope they work!
Philosopher
7:32 pm on Aug 19, 2004 (gmt 0)
Wouldn't having your internal pages indexed defeat the purpose of your splash page form? If they are indexed and a visitor clicks on the indexed page they are going to go straight to the internal page, bypassing your form completely.
rocco
11:33 am on Aug 20, 2004 (gmt 0)
that's what you could do: - cloak the site so spiders see your original website - make the splash page visible whenever no cookie exists
you will loose some surfers due to the cookies but being indexed in the se's is well worth it.
