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[gavinmullins]

Maybe some of you really clever people can work this one out.

I have a site that i have set up on google sitemaps,....done all i need to do and it still is not getting indexed.....is there something in my source code you can spot that is stopping it from getting indexed???

I have already done it with another site and it works fine, but this one has me baffled?

The site is the first one in my signature 'Sell Property Privately'

your help and wisdom would be greatly appreciated

[SpiffyJ]

Why dont you just put a link from an exiting site to the new site so one of googles bots picks it up?

From my experience the site gets indexed in a couple days that way.

[JWJ]

Well, I don't know enough to know if it's the cause of your problems but what on earth is all this in your source .....



This is only part of it .... there's loads of it. Remember, the SE's see whatever we can see when we look at the source ... how on earth can they index that???

[Brisguy52]

Originally Posted by JWJ

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how on earth can they index that???

who the heck would want to ??

[activewebs]

Hi Guys Hi John

WOW what is all that stuff in the source ??

Ive seen this kind of dump from a text view of an image( like a send to notepad command ), like a jpeg or similar , is it somthing like that , an image map ??

Rich

[JWJ]

No, it's not an image. It's the 'value' of a parameter called 'viewstate' in a javascript input form. My only thoughts are that the form specifies input type 'hidden' followed by all this 'code' (or whatever it is). In my simple mind, 'hidden' and long 'blocks of text' can flag up something nasty to the SE bots. On the other hand, Gavins other site has the same sort of stuff, so maybe it's just something I'm not understanding (not difficult ).

[activewebs]

OK John

I get it its like a hidden parameter to send to a form processing script , one other place ive seen this kind of thing is with PGP (pretty good privacy) Keys, maybe thats it , anyho it cant be helping

Rich

[StevenofNine]

Methinks you have found the culprit.

Now, we await his return...

[JWJ]

I'm not so sure .... having checked both sites in Google, one is definitely indexed and the other only has the home page indexed, yet both of them have this spurious code, whatever it is.

[webado]

It's part of a form input field. The action script of the form needs it for whatever it does with it. It's not the robot's business what that is, as long as the form and its fields follow correct syntax.

And the syntax is not correct, as you will see in the validator.

Those tags closed with /> are invalid for a non-xhtml doctype.