Adam Howitt's Blog

Feb 05
2005

Bob's Guitar site growing nicely

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It's really satisfying to see Bob's Guitar Repair site growing nicely as a testament to the ease of using the blogging model although I'm really disappointed with Google's attempts to index it.  Yahoo, MSN and several others all found their way through the site with no trouble and many pages listed in the index but Google appeared to choke somewhere. 

One thought was the <![if !ie]> workaround for displaying PNGs causing the spider to trip and fall, another theory was the use of lists to present the navigation but the latest is the poor validation results versus the W3C spec for XHTML Transitional.  I have made some changes this week to that end and attempted to get the page to validate (or nearly validate). 

His photo gallery is by far the most interesting part of the site with step by step photo descriptions of the work he completes.

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  1. Adam: That's interesting. I've got a client using JournURL as a CMS for her site, and I'm seeing similar results... Google has only indexed the front page, while MSN has crawled deeper into it.

    http://corporatecollections.com/

    One thing I can say is that it isn't the query strings, since other JournURL-based blogs and communities are crawled extensively.

    Posted By Roger Benningfield : Posted At 2/5/05 7:50 PM
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