Hi Guys, I've made a new website: www.buysellbazaar.net, but I am unable to make the pages DoIndex & DoFollow... Go to the website and scroll down till the end. You will find the links to the pages in the footer... Now I've added content there, but the issue is that Google never reads the pages... and so no link value is generated... The site is built using a new CMS... OS Class Plzz help
Your question is a little unclear. as long as you haven't blocked the pages in your robot or htaccess file the pages should get crawled and indexed eventually.
I'm wondering if Google is ignoring your footer links just because it only contains links. Add in a copyright notice too (no links as part of that, just text). Those links aren't looking too important either - a huge Facebook banner, then an add, then just a few links on their own. A contact page isn't very important (I would recommend setting to "noindex,follow"). Also, the code you're using isn't a good idea: <meta name="googlebot" content="index, follow" /> Code (markup): Instead it should be robots and NOT googlebot, otherwise you're only providing instructions to one bot (and there's more than one SE out there). Using "index, follow" is kind of redundant as that is the default, so you only need a robots meta tag if you're deviating away from it. If the two other links ("How to Make Effective Classifieds Work?" and "Online Shopping – Not so Trendy in Pakistan") are important, then why not have them somewhere more prominent, such as the header? Or have an articles/blog section, so these links are site-wide. By the way, for Adsense purposes you need a privacy page (this can go in the footer and again it can be "noindex,follow").
Well, I'm not much of a coder/developer... Probably would need to find someone to do it for ☺ But Thanks for your help... My head is clear now...
given that there is no such thing as doindex, dofollow, index or follow -- since indexing a page is the default behavior -- setting such a thing involves NOT saying "noindex' and "nofollow"... so I'm not sure why you'd be having problems NOT doing something... Unless the 'no' versions have been set for some goofy reason, in which case just delete them. If you're having problems apart from that with the page being crawled/indexed, it's likely there's something else wrong with the site; very possible with the absolute rubbish code some people seem to be trying to deploy as websites with the mix of 'not ready for primetime' HTML 5 garbage and HTML 3.2 with 4 tranny slapped on it. But without seeing the site in question diagnosing such issues is near impossible and anything ANYONE tells you here is little more than a wild guess.
You should remove the following from your robots.txt: User-agent: * Disallow: Code (markup): It's not blocking anything, but again this is a default and pointless addition. One that could lead to drastic mistakes if you were to make a typing error.
Odd, your URL was 404 earlier, works now... Not that you have better things to do than listen to me quote myself I can think of a number of reasons for that to get slapped down by the search engines REGARDLESS of what you have set up for robots instructions -- too many links, too much unrelated content in the form of select/option, P+STRONG doing heading's job, blatant keyword stuffing, non-breaking spaces doing optgroup's job... ... and that's before talking the complete accessibility /FAIL/ of the fixed width layout, nonsensical heading orders, tables for nothing, absurdly undersized fixed metric (px) fonts, jquery for nothing, scripting for nothing, and advertising hell. (thankfully the last of those don't actually load here).
Actually, It's all because of a new CMS & the theme it has to offer... Also I had installed a plugin for sitepmap, but it was kind of bugged so.. I searched alot and was finally able to debug it... I mean the official plugin was bugged and I had to fix it.. so may be this whole CMS (OS Class) is trash and I should probably move to a better CMS, which would probably be much easier to edit What do you suggest?
I think you might be right to try something else, mate. Drupal has a good module for classifieds: http://drupal.org/project/ed_classified