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Indexing multiple asp pages - 1/14/2007 0:01:28   
Hello, I am hoping somebody can help me with my problem, so far I was unsuccessful. I am trying to figure out how to make the search engines to index/crawl all my web pages. My web site is created in ASP (Front Page) and is driven from the database. Each web page has 300 items and I have about 800 of these pages. Each web page has “Next” and “Previous” buttons at the bottom of the page for navigating through the web pages, but these buttons are embedded into the asp table and are not hyperlinks. Therefore as I understand, the search engines cannot “click” the “next” button to go to next page. I have noticed the search engines indexed only about 1-2 first pages only and don’t go any deeper.

Is there any way to make these embedded navigation buttons as hyperlinks or add some kind of the script or code on the web page for search engines to move from page to page all the way to the end? If so, how?

Here is the web address: cdeuroxpress.com/mastercatalog.asp


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RE: Indexing multiple asp pages - 1/14/2007 2:05:05   
Instead of using buttons, why don't you make it a link? Or keep the buttons, and add a link that is the same color as the background somewhere on the page, so the SEs can still navigate.

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RE: Indexing multiple asp pages - 1/14/2007 16:04:42   
Thank you for the reply. Well, this is my problem...These are not regular buttons that I can see how to attach hyperlinks to them, they are somehow part of the form. Or at least I don't know how to attach them or create a new links so they display next 300 records and so on. Here is the part I believe refers to these buttons:

<!--webbot bot="DatabaseRegionEnd" startspan b-tableformat="TRUE"
b-menuformat="FALSE" u-dbrgn2="_fpclass/fpdbrgn2.inc" i-groupsize="300"
clientside tag="TBODY"
local_preview="<tr><td colspan=64 bgcolor="#FFFF00" align="left" width="100%"><font color="#000000">This is the end of a Database Results region.</font></td></tr><TR><TD ALIGN=LEFT VALIGN=MIDDLE COLSPAN=64><FORM><NOBR><INPUT TYPE=Button VALUE=" |< "><INPUT TYPE=Button VALUE=" < "><INPUT TYPE=Button VALUE=" > "><INPUT TYPE=Button VALUE=" >| "> [1/300]</NOBR></FORM></td></tr>"
preview="<tr><td colspan=64 bgcolor="#FFFF00" align="left" width="100%"><font color="#000000">This is the end of a Database Results region.</font></td></tr><TR><TD ALIGN=LEFT VALIGN=MIDDLE COLSPAN=64><NOBR><INPUT TYPE=Button VALUE=" |< "><INPUT TYPE=Button VALUE=" < "><INPUT TYPE=Button VALUE=" > "><INPUT TYPE=Button VALUE=" >| "> [1/300]</NOBR>
</td></tr>" --><!--#include file="_fpclass/fpdbrgn2.inc"-->
<!--webbot bot="DatabaseRegionEnd" endspan i-CheckSum="62730" -->

Can you please give a little bit more help? Thank you.

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RE: Indexing multiple asp pages - 1/14/2007 16:51:57   
quote:

I am trying to figure out how to make the search engines to index/crawl all my web pages.


Create an xml sitemap (either by hand or using one of the many tools available) and submit it to Google Webmaster Tools and Yahoo Sitemaps. For both of those you need a free account.

Late last year Google, Yahoo and Microsoft announced they will be collaborating on the new 0.90 Sitemap protocol.

If you get the big three search engines covered that should help enormously.

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RE: Indexing multiple asp pages - 1/14/2007 17:55:06   
This is where I started...I wanted to create the sitemaps. And that's when I discovered the search engines and even the sitemap generators don't crawl all of the pages. I was even told by one of the sitemap generator creators they cannot crawl my pages due to these "paging" buttons.
This is why I am trying to find out how to link from one page to another to display another group of records....

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