Hello, I'm having a website with an archive via modrewrite like http://siteurl/archive/a.html is rewrited to artists.php?letter=a But the problem i have is that google not indexing my subfolders like archive/a.htm archive/b.html ... Google is only showing my main pages. Anyone knows what the problem could be? Cheers, Kris
Hi, Basically Google does not care about folders or subfolders. Google only cares about URL's and links. If there are enough quality links pointing to these /archive/a.html, /archive/b.html, ..., they will be indexed; if there are not enough good links pointing to them, they will not. This assumes that you do not disallow access with robots.txt and that these pages do not contain silly <meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow"> tags. Jean-Luc
That would be the problem because i'm only linking to my archive from my main page and archive pages. So what i need are external links to my archive?
If the page that is indexed in Google is linking to those folder pages, then they will be indexed, else they wont. Each and every page of your website or any website in the world needs at least one incoming link from a page already indexed in Google, without that it cannot appear in the Search Engine Produced Results. IT
So that want be a problem because the main page is indexed. But my archive links are placed on the bottom of my website under alot of text and links. Thats maybe the problem ?
You need more external or internal links. Sometimes one quality link can be enough; sometimes you need several links. Jean-Luc