Re: Why does Google not spider my forum?

I have a forum at
http://www.purkersdorf-online.at/http/forum.html
Google spiders the overview page but not the articles.

It's that php?id= that chokes them.

Are there too much links?
What is the limit?

No, although Google will only index the first 100K of a single page, this is
not the problem in your case. You need to do something about that id variable.
As there's only one variable in the URI string, it could be that "id=" is
flagged as a problem, and simply renaming it could do the trick.

But, are you sure you want all your forum spidered? If you allow people to link
freely to other sites in their posts, they could link to a bad neighbourhood
and you would be penalised as a result. Weigh your options carefully.


--
Alice Woolley
http://www.insidethebubble.co.uk/
Inside the Bubble - autism information

Foxglove54321 wrote:

I have a forum at
http://www.purkersdorf-online.at/http/forum.html
Google spiders the overview page but not the articles.


It's that php?id= that chokes them.

Sorry, you are wrong.
I have a lot of other pages, even with more than one parameter and
they all will be spidered.

But, are you sure you want all your forum spidered? If you allow people to link
freely to other sites in their posts, they could link to a bad neighbourhood
and you would be penalised as a result. Weigh your options carefully.

Yes, I'm sure.


Thanks,
Gerhard

Gerhard wrote:

I have a forum at
http://www.purkersdorf-online.at/http/forum.html
Google spiders the overview page but not the articles.


It's that php?id= that chokes them.


Sorry, you are wrong.
I have a lot of other pages, even with more than one parameter and
they all will be spidered.

But do those parameters include "id=" ? I know Google can cope with most php
pages, but I thought that they avoided that particular string because it looks
like a session id.



--
Alice Woolley
http://www.insidethebubble.co.uk/
Inside the Bubble - autism information

Foxglove54321 wrote:

Gerhard wrote:

I have a forum at
http://www.purkersdorf-online.at/http/forum.html
Google spiders the overview page but not the articles.


It's that php?id= that chokes them.


But do those parameters include "id=" ? I know Google can cope with most php
pages, but I thought that they avoided that particular string because it looks
like a session id.

No, they do not include "id=" !
Thats a very interesting input.
I will try to change it and see what happens.

Gerhard