Broken internal links, Spiderability

[MHI]

My website works properly, but search engine spiders are not able to crawl my
site. Specifically I am using a program called TrafficBlazer. This reviewed
my site and assures me that my site is not spiderable due to broken links and
my Google rank is 1 out of 10 (10 being the best, 1 being the worst). The
name of my site is www.minneapolishomeinspections.com. I have been trying to
figure this out for months and don't know what else to do. Any help would be
greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance for your time and consideration.

 

[David Bartosik [MSFT MVP]]

I'm not an expert on how the search engines work (most people don't really
know). My advice would be to go to googles URL submission page and submit
each page url and/or locate their contact form and ask them if they might
know the cause they don't spider the pages.
http://www.google.com/intl/en/about.html
I'd also suggest pulling your raw log files and review them for "robot" hits
and see what pages they do hit and see if they get an error code. You might
even ask your host support about any error codes and see if they have some
advice.
Entering your domain name in google I get a hit so it is clear that they
found your site. But I can't explain your inquiry. Links are not broken by
any definition I know of.

David Bartosik - [MSFT MVP]
www.publishermvps.com
www.davidbartosik.com

 

[MHI]

Thanks for the reply Davd. I resubmitted the website and unchecked the "keep
folders organized" folder thinking that maybe the reason none of the internal
links where recognized was that they were hidden in a sub folder. This still
doesn't work. I cannot find any books or anyone with knowledge of Publisher
2003 that can help point me in the right direction. I have saved my website
as a web page and tried uploading it many different ways. The only page
searchable by any websites is my homepage. The internal links are obviously
there, so how can they not be recognized. I attached the excerpt from Traffic
Blazer stating what is wrong with the site. I hope someone can help shed some
light on broken internal links.


Traffic Blazer found broken internal hyperlinks on your Web site. Broken
links block search spiders and end users from accessing parts of your Web
site. Consider fixing or removing the broken links from your site.

http://www.minneapolishomeinspections.com/index_contactus.htm
http://www.minneapolishomeinspections.com/POCLINK:DEFAULT
http://www.minneapolishomeinspections.com/index_pricing.htm
http://www.minneapolishomeinspections.com/POCLINK:DEFAULT
http://www.minneapolishomeinspections.com/index_samplereport.htm
http://www.minneapolishomeinspections.com/POCLINK:DEFAULT
http://www.minneapolishomeinspections.com/index_standardsofpractice.htm
http://www.minneapolishomeinspections.com/POCLINK:DEFAULT
http://www.minneapolishomeinspections.com/index_letterfrommatt.htm
http://www.minneapolishomeinspections.com/POCLINK:DEFAULT
http://www.minneapolishomeinspections.com/index_aboutus.htm
http://www.minneapolishomeinspections.com/POCLINK:DEFAULT


Your site's internal links are broken. The site cannot be spidered. It is
strongly recommended that you fix the broken links so that spiders and Web
site visitors can navigate the site.

 

[David Bartosik [MSFT MVP]]

inline...

Thanks for the reply Davd. I resubmitted the website and unchecked the
"keep
folders organized" folder thinking that maybe the reason none of the
internal
links where recognized was that they were hidden in a sub folder. This
still
doesn't work.

that shouldn't make any difference, the path is still a path.


I cannot find any books or anyone with knowledge of Publisher

2003 that can help point me in the right direction.

that's this forum and http://www.publishermvps.com


I have saved my website

as a web page and tried uploading it many different ways.

that's actually probably not a good thing. you want the link paths to stay
the same.


The only page

searchable by any websites is my homepage. The internal links are
obviously
there, so how can they not be recognized. I attached the excerpt from
Traffic
Blazer stating what is wrong with the site. I hope someone can help shed
some
light on broken internal links.

I have no idea why it indicates good href tags with a valid file path as
broken. I have no idea why google apparently doesn't read that.

Your updated post does bring something new to my attention, the
POCLINKEFAULT
href. I have no idea what that is for. It would make sense that would be a
broken link, that's obvious. I'm going to ask MS about it, see what it means
and what's for. Rather that will shed any light on why valid links are
ignored I don't know. I do once again highly recommend you follow the
trouble-shooting steps I outlined in my response and post back with results.

David Bartosik - [MSFT MVP]
www.publishermvps.com
www.davidbartosik.com

 

[MHI]

Thanks David. When I did a search of POCLINKEFAULT on google it came back
with numerous responses, all of which were from Publisher created web pages.
Everything appears great on the surface, but I believe the problem is in the
code. I am going to add another navigation bar to my pages at the bottom to
see if the web crawlers can follow that, otherwise I am all out of ideas.
Telll Bill Gates to give me a call.