Google not recognizing internal links!?

A Dreamweaver issue?

[Craig_F]

I had been wonrdering why the PR of some of my pages was so low, and noticed that Google appears to be ignoring any of my internal links that are within Dreamweaver editable areas and made by using Library items. All of the pages with this issue are indexed, and cached, so Google sees the pages, but is not recognizing the specific links made in this manner. Is this a known problem, or is something just wrong with my code?

Here's my link code that Google is ignoring:

<A href="link1.htm">Link 1</A> &gt; <!-- #BeginEditable "t%20location%20nav" --><!-- #BeginLibraryItem "/Library/read.lbi" --><A
href="Link2.htm">Link 2</A><!-- #EndLibraryItem --> &gt; <A
href="Link3.htm">Link 3</A> <!-- #EndEditable -->

I did find one instance of this where I was not using the library items and the links still were not recognized, so it may just be something with the editable region. Any have any idea what's up here? I have at least 200 links that seem to be ignored right now.

[DaveAtIFG]

I've used similar links with considerable success, I don't think it's a Dreamweaver/editable links issue. More likely PR is low simply because inner pages normally collect fewer incoming links then top level pages.

You do have a "&gt;" or two in there that doesn't belong though, it's a ">" character and could be causing some problems, a validator should flag it for you if you use one.

[edited by: DaveAtIFG at 6:12 pm (utc) on Jan. 3, 2003]

[nancyb]

I use DW templates and libraries on my entire site. Although my site has not recovered from an earlier penalty, the freshbot picks up these library/editable region links every time. Agree with DaveAtIFG that it's a PR issure, new site that wasn't deep crawled in Dec so pages didn't make it into this update or some other issue.

[Craig_F]

Ok, let me restate this -- I'm don't care about PR really, but Google seems to show all my internal links to all my pages except the links in the above code. I'm concerned because the link text within these links is rather important to the overall success of the pages they are linking to.

DaveAtIFG:

The "&gt;" code is supposed to be there, as these are bread crumb links (you > are > here). I'd assume that wouldn't cause the issue because they are so commonly used by major directories that do get spidered.

nancyb:

The site is not new and all the pages have been in at least for the last 3-4 updates. The cache shows all the pages with these links, and the links themselves look ok, BUT the pages that these pages link to do not show any of these internal links linking to them.

Thanks for the help. Any other comments/ideas are welcome!

[DaveAtIFG]

Use a validator [htmlhelp.com] and be CERTAIN your breadcrumbs are being interperted as such.

[korkus2000]

What is the PR of the page with these links? Are some of the pages being linked to here in the database? Have you tried running a sim spider on the page to see what happens? Is the page working fine in other SE?

[Craig_F]

Validated perfect.

Sim spider perfect.

PR of pages with the links only 2-3...that's gotta be the problem, right? I should of thought of that, sorry!

[korkus2000]

Ya won't show backwards links for pages with less than a PR4.