ChaosKnight Posted June 24, 2010 Share Posted June 24, 2010 Hi, I have redesigned an old static HTML website into a dynamic PHP website. The URL didn't change, and I saw through Google's webmaster tools that the bot crawled through the website but couldn't find the pages. I'm a bit worried, do I have to do something before Google and the other major search engines will update the website in their search results? Do I have to make a sitemap? Please help me Thanks Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/205753-search-engine-help/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonnoTheDev Posted June 24, 2010 Share Posted June 24, 2010 Submit a Google sitemap. This is explained in the webmaster tools. Make sure that you redirect any old urls to their new versions. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/205753-search-engine-help/#findComment-1076727 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChaosKnight Posted June 24, 2010 Author Share Posted June 24, 2010 How can I redirect them? I removed the pages completely, just added the new ones, the domain didn't change Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/205753-search-engine-help/#findComment-1076760 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChaosKnight Posted June 24, 2010 Author Share Posted June 24, 2010 I use codeigniter, so I have dynamic URLs, lets say I have a URL that routes to the countries page: www.example.com/countries/ and in the countries I have several dynamic links to several countries, for example: www.example.com/countries/south-africa/ Should I define the extra /south-africa/ parameter also in the sitemap's <loc></loc> tags, or is www.example.com/countries/ enough? Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/205753-search-engine-help/#findComment-1076767 Share on other sites More sharing options...
LogoVendor Posted June 28, 2010 Share Posted June 28, 2010 I guess that the problem is in you robots.txt file. You should allow Google boots to crawl you site Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/205753-search-engine-help/#findComment-1078296 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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