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[britnick]

Google has been around to my site (PR4)and grabbed the Index Page. But it hasn't gone for anything else. Looking through my logs over the last three months, it has never grabbed more than one or two pages at a time - mostly only one.

Some pages that have been there since the site was first launched have never been hit at all - but they are all linked off the home page. Should I worry about this?

I did raise this query before but never got a response so any insight would be very helpful. Somebody who knows about all this stuff has suggested that I could have a major navigation problem but the human visitors to my site have never reported a problem.

[europeforvisitors]

You need to supplement your JavaScript links with HTML links that Google can follow.

[jdMorgan]

britnick,

If this site is the one refered to in your profile (in your e-mail address) then I'd strongly suggest running it through the HTML validator at www.w3c.org.

There is no DOCTYPE declaration on the index page, and various validation errors show up when attempting to validate it to various standards. This may or may not be your main problem, but valid on-page markup is a good start.

Googlebot does not do all that well with framed sites. You can help it by providing text links to your sub-pages in the <noframes> section of your index page.

Jim

[sun818]

Run your site through the Sim Spider [searchengineworld.com]. The spider is seeing your internal links as domain names.

[allanp73]

Thanks Sun818. This is a useful little spider.

[britnick]

Thank you very much. I think you have identified the problem - or at least one of them :-)

Working on it right now!