Site content can't be seen by search engines

anyone know why

[cooster]

I've recently been asked to do a bit of basic SEO on a friends clients site but with one major problem no search engines seem to be able to see the pages content. The site is heavily dynamic (asp) but I have worked with similar sites and the only problems have been that the spiders can't follow the links but can always see the outputted html and content of at least the home page. If I put in site:www.thedomain.com into google it brings up a load of links to site pages but the listings contains no page tiles or content. Anyone experienced this before?

[Digital Worker]

could be password protected directories on the site, check chmod on each folder through your favorite ftp program in order to determine if this is the case.

If not this it is most likely to be a problem with the homepage as this is probably the first point of access to the site, to check this you could get links to other pages in your site and then track spiders to see where they run into problems.

Hope u find a way through :)

[larryhatch]

Google up W3C Validation. Validate some problem pages.
It might be that the spiders can't even SEE the content
even though the seem to render on standard browsers.
- Larry