Part of website not appearing in search engines

[riathakur]

Hi,

One of my websites is not being picked up well by google or any other search engines now !

Previously I had a lot of material in form of word documents and it used to get picked up in google and other search engines. But after I have converted all those material into jsp pages and added adsense advertisements, they are just not being picked up by google or any search engines.

Surprisingly, other materials that I have added (like forums etc.,) are being picked up and shown in google search but none of the matter from the jsp pages is being picked up

Looks like I have done something seriously wrong. Can anyone help me in finding out what went wrong so that I can correct it and my main material comes back in google search engines.

Thanks,

Ria Thakur !

[edited by: tedster at 5:22 pm (utc) on June 3, 2008]

[tedster]

Hello Ria, and welcome to the forums.

Was you previous traffic going directly to the Word documents, or to pages that linked to the Wrod documents?

Also, I assume you changed the urls for your pages - but am I correct?

[riathakur]

Hi Tedster,

Thanks for all the help. Previously, I had attached the word document directly to the website.

Yes, when I changed the word docs to jsp files, the urls have changed. But it has been almost 2 months now and still my pages do not appear in google search engine.

Any help on this would be highly appreciated. :)

Thanks,

Ria

[tedster]

First - changing all the urls can "reset" the website in Google. Does your domain name resolve directly, with no redirects? I've seen many .jsp websites where, for whatever reason, even the domain root gets redirected. That means that you don't even have a single url that gets carried over. and beyond that, not resolving the domain root directly can create other problems in indexing.

The best advice I can give a jsp programmer is to "keep it simple". Complex java programming can undermine a search engine's ability to index the content. I'd suggest you use one of the spider simulator programs available online to get a handle on what googlebot can actually see.

Also, use the W3C validator [validator.w3.org] to make sure you don't have any coding errors that are creating obstacles in the html. And then make sure you continune to publicize your site well enough to attract quality backlinks.