Hi, I have a kb on my site like sitename/kb/ But the online spider simulators dont consider the inside links(article lists) at all. It merely consider sitename/kb/ and not sitename/kb/article.php and so on. I have disabled the "Search Engine Visibility" checkbox. Any other thoughts?
First search this in google search if the url does show in the search results. site:www(dot)sitename/kb/article.php If it is indexed in Google search then the spider will accept it, in the next crawl. If its not indexed then submit it to index manually in Google webmaster tool and manually crawl it. Update and resubmitted a XML sitemap to google through webmaster tools.
Do you have a link to the article page from your homepage (or any other inner page of your website that is already indexed)?
You have to make sure you do not have an orphaned link to start.. If it is not indexed then it will not be crawled and you should make new page and start over...IMO