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google being selective on what to index...

google simply refuses to crawl a page for 5 months now

         

alxdean

8:37 pm on Mar 18, 2003 (gmt 0)

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okay folks, before I go totally nuts I want to see if anybody had a similar experience.
I'm running a dynamic site and 95% of my content is spread over two pages: showpage.asp and showlisting.asp
now google has been happily from day 1 crawling all my database driven showpage.asp with all the funky content using querystring identifiers but refuses to even look at showlisting.asp.
so i went and validated all my html.
still nothing
renamed the page
still nothing
created a sitemap with all the pages in it
yeah, google finds the showpage ones but still refuses to got to the showlisting ones.
so maybe it is the querystring. break it down to a single value 12 charachter long querystring cfg=1-234-567.
still nothing.
HELP
I am going mad.
google is refusing to pick up on about 50% of my content thanks to this. Alltheweb got it sussed, inktomi has no problem, even altavista finds the pages. why in heavens sake does google not?

Brett_Tabke

7:46 am on Mar 19, 2003 (gmt 0)

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In those situations when all else fails, go link hunting. A good set of inbound links to those pages will cure all.

alxdean

8:42 am on Mar 19, 2003 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



Cheers, Brett!
Do you think a good set to a dozen pages would do the trick, and google will pick up the rest; or will I need to start making links for the hundreds of pages google is so blatantly trying to ignore.