google just index main page only

[211655]

hi,

google doesnt index the site at all. neither yahoo nor msn. they all index only main page and thats it. i am using sts and use metatags in that file etc....(sts_template.html) any idea why?

[211655]

any one. plz help. for some reason. googlebot comes and scan only one page if it wants too. same with yahoo and msn and overture. i know they come to my site as i am specnding on average 15-20 grand on googe, yahoo and overture for keywords. but never get my site indexed. i think they dont like osc format at all.

[stevel]

Google, MSN, Yahoo and a bunch of other spiders have indexed all my store, and I haven't done much more than add the "All Products" contribution. I do note that Google, in particular, indexes my category and product pages less often than other pages, but it does so every week or two, so it's no problem (my pages rarely change.)

[koie]

Perhaps a long shot..Have you installed the 'automatic login' contribution. When I had this one installed search engines were not able to read my page. When I turned it off the problems were gone.

[211655]

no. whats that.? i think i never did.

 

they just come an dindex one page and thats it. and despite the fact that i get hits. this is wierd. i have all product contr. and catalog with pictures, both installed and are working fine so it should work. it never does.

 

anyone has problem because using sts template and each page having same title or so?

[Mark-UK]

Perhaps a long shot..Have you installed the 'automatic login' contribution. When I had this one installed search engines were not able to read my page. When I turned it off the problems were gone.

whats this mean, what does it do, tell me more pleaese kind sir. Is this a proven thing for search engines and oscommerce software.

[koie]

Not that I know of. I installed this contribution so when customers return to the shop they do not have to login. This is done automaticaly.

However, I noticed that this gave problems with reading the page by google.

So 1+1=2...I figured...perhaps this is the problem.

 

Like I said. Just a long shot.

[211655]

any other thoughts why all search engines are doing so.

i mean all of my pages have link back to main page so there is no blank age on the site.

[fribhey]

what does your robots.txt?

do you have this as a meta tag:

<meta name="robots" content="index,follow">

or

<meta name="robots" content="all">

[211655]

my robot.txt has 6 pages that i disallowed. i dont have either of the meta tags in my sts_template.html