Indexing help

[mitov]

Hi everyone,

I need some help. When i try to index a page for my search, it dosent work. Have a look at the page, which is http://hairandbeautypages.com/hbp/sal/dir/Natural%20Space%20Health%20and%20Beauty,%20Normand %20Park,%20SW6.htm .
And this is what i get when i try and index it: http://hairandbeautypages.com/find/?...d&searchType=1 (look at the last link).

Any help and/or advice? Anything appreciated which would help me get this thing up and running. Its just problems after problems...

Miro

[roy]

I can't help with your specific question but, as a general note, it is not good practise to use spaces in the page name or title. This produces the %20 in the address line. This, I'm assured, is not search engine friendly. Use the underscore ( _ ) instead.

[mitov]

Thnks for the advice,
but do you know why the above is happening? Why is it that my indexing script only reaches a specific level.... Does it not start to index only when visable text starts on the page?

ANY help will be appreciated!

Miro

[Pete Wailes]

Ok, you need to doa few things...

Firstly, you need to set your folders so that they don't have words like beauty in them. Otherwise, any search will find them. If you can't change the names for some obscure reason, try changing the permissions, so that they're un-viewable. I'm not sure that this will fix it, but it might.

With regards to the second point, this is just standard practise. Otherwise people can route through your folders, which just makes it easier for them to do things you don't want them to.

But yes, i suggest re-naming the folders
Pete

[TWD-Tony]

I think that everyone has jumped the gun as to the actual problem here... The spaces in filenames point is a good one but the actual problem is the last search result in the 2nd link... The one that is listed as "your browser does not support frames".
Now I maybe wrong with this, but I think that when you setup the search function your search software indexed your site and created a DB record of your pages, there may have been a problem with that page at the time and the search has cached it????
As for the "routing through your folders" issue - turning off directory indexing should stop that (it should be turned off by default anyway)

[mitov]

Thanks for your replys everyone...

turning off directory indexing should stop that (it should be turned off by default anyway)

Yes but when i do that, it would not allow me to index my own site...

As for "your browser does not support frames", i have an iframe in the page which is at the top, and it indexed the alt tag on it.

Is there any way that i can make the search ehngines and my own indexing script index only the displayed text?

Miro