Beginner question about cgi and url rewrites

site is not being indexed by MSN or Google

[mona]

Hi, there. I'm not a programmer or a tech so I dont understand scripting of any sort. But I need to communicate my problem (and hopefully a solution!) to the ones that do.

The site in question is not being indexed in Google or MSN even though it has plenty of inbound links and has been around for awhile. The url string for the home page looks like this -
widget.com/cgi-bin/webspeed/wpd_cgi.sh/WService=ecom/home.html

Do you know if a simple rewrite of this will solve my problem? I spent some time searching here and I found Brett had this to say

"It would probably be good to get it out of cgi-bin too. google isn't fond of grabbing stuff in there and it never seems to rank well. I think for it to get a page out of cgi-bin, it has to have some decent external inbound links."

Would this also be a solution? Or should both be done? Right now I have no access to the log files for this site, either. I hope this is the right forum for this question...

[gettopreacherman]

I would agree...pull the page out of the cgi-bin. that is usually a system file for counters and such and Google usually won't look for content in that folder...just move it to your /public_html or /html folder on your server...this should be public and the bots shouldn't have any issues finding it.

[mona]

Great, I'll let 'em know. Thanks for the reply, gettopreacherman.