Posted by kpastore on August 5, 2009 at 12:53am
I am working on a site (http://www.car-rental-salt-lake-city.com/) and am having issues with getting the Google robots to search and index it. This is a multisite installation on Drupal 6 with the RobotsTxt module (http://drupal.org/project/robotstxt) installed. The robots text file is located here: http://www.car-rental-salt-lake-city.com/robots.txt. It has been submitted using the Google Webmaster Tools, but still has not been indexed after 4 weeks.
Anyone with experience have any ideas as to what may be going on?
Thanks!
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First, you really should set
First, you really should set your "www." option in your .htaccess file. Then, go to Google's webmaster tools, and check your robots.txt file. There might be a character somewhere causing an issue with Google.
You mention multisite, what is the link to it? If you have the same content on a subdomain vs main domain, Google will penalize you and be forced to index one and not the other.
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The other site on the
The other site on the multisite setup is a different URL altogether. It is not a subdomain (http://www.valueautorental.com/). I'll check on the .htaccess file. I agree, it should be set to one or the other. But, since the original site (valueautorental.com) is indexing just fine without this modification, I'm not sure this is the problem.
Both links have different
Both links have different content, so no worries with multisite and same content. Is not your case. I would check Google Webmaster tools to see if there are any hints in the reports why googlebot is not visiting your pages.
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