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  • noop
    #1

    googlebot doesn't enter my website

    Hi, not really a html question, but...
    I've submitted my URL to Google for indexing.
    In the logs of my server, I see that googlebot has requested my /robots.txt
    and my /index.html, but it stopped there: there was no request for the
    other pages of my site.
    (It did so twice: after some time I re-submitted my URL, and googlebot still
    retrieved only the first page.)
    What did I do wrong? Here is a description of my site:

    - I didn't put any <meta robots=...> tag.

    - I've put an empty /robots.txt file.

    - The structure of my index.html page is:

    <html><head><ti tle>title</title></head>
    <body>
    <a title="click to enter" href="next.html ">
    <IMG src="pics/pic.jpg" border="0" alt="">
    <div class=c>
    <div class=d>text</div>
    <div class=e>text</div>
    </div>
    </a>
    </body>
    </html>


    Thanks!

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    • Roy Schestowitz
      #2
      Re: googlebot doesn't enter my website

      noop wrote:
      [color=blue]
      > Hi, not really a html question, but...
      > I've submitted my URL to Google for indexing.
      > In the logs of my server, I see that googlebot has requested my
      > /robots.txt and my /index.html, but it stopped there: there was no request
      > for the other pages of my site.
      > (It did so twice: after some time I re-submitted my URL, and googlebot
      > still retrieved only the first page.)
      > What did I do wrong? Here is a description of my site:
      >
      > - I didn't put any <meta robots=...> tag.
      >
      > - I've put an empty /robots.txt file.
      >
      > - The structure of my index.html page is:
      >
      > <html><head><ti tle>title</title></head>
      > <body>
      > <a title="click to enter" href="next.html ">
      > <IMG src="pics/pic.jpg" border="0" alt="">
      > <div class=c>
      > <div class=d>text</div>
      > <div class=e>text</div>
      > </div>
      > </a>
      > </body>
      > </html>
      >
      >
      > Thanks![/color]

      How long has your site existed? How many inbound links does it have if any?
      Submission without any links is almost futile. It makes your site an
      island, which in turn makes Google reluctant to index. How long has this
      submission and monitoring been going on? Google might re-visit and go
      deeper in subsequent visits.

      Better newsgroup to help you: alt.internet.se arch-engines

      Roy

      --
      Roy S. Schestowitz
      Schestowitz.com Software Solutions
      http://Schestowitz.com

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        • David Dorward
          #3
          Re: googlebot doesn't enter my website

          noop wrote:
          [color=blue]
          > <a title="click to enter" href="next.html ">
          > <IMG src="pics/pic.jpg" border="0" alt="">
          > <div class=c>
          > <div class=d>text</div>
          > <div class=e>text</div>
          > </div>
          > </a>[/color]

          This is invalid code. In attempting to recover from it, GoogleBot may have
          decided that there was no text inside the element and that the link was
          worthless.

          Feed GoogleBot (and, for that matter, all other browsers) valid[1],
          accessible[2] webpages and you will probably get better results.

          [1] http://validator.w3.org/
          [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10/full-checklist.html


          --
          David Dorward <http://blog.dorward.me .uk/> <http://dorward.me.uk/>
          Home is where the ~/.bashrc is

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            • noop
              #4
              Re: googlebot doesn't enter my website

              David Dorward wrote:
              [color=blue]
              > noop wrote:
              >[color=green]
              >> <a title="click to enter" href="next.html ">
              >> <IMG src="pics/pic.jpg" border="0" alt="">
              >> <div class=c>
              >> <div class=d>text</div>
              >> <div class=e>text</div>
              >> </div>
              >> </a>[/color]
              >
              > This is invalid code. In attempting to recover from it, GoogleBot may have
              > decided that there was no text inside the element and that the link was
              > worthless.
              >[/color]

              Thank you.
              I tried the validators and discovered that <div> are not allowed into an <a>
              element.

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