Google Custom Search Engine Issues

Hi Ragi,

You could add a site map to your site, this will help googles crawlers find your other pages. This site map generator will find some of your pages, then you can add the other entries to the xml feed manually:

http://www.sitemapdoc.com/Default.aspx

The Google crawler will still search your site normally, and will add any pages it didn't find from the site map.

There are a few issues with using a site map, which are discussed in this excellent post on stackexchange:

http://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/4803/the-sitemap-paradox

Let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks!

Greg

Hi Greg:  I tried that, but its still not properly searching that page.  This is what I did:

1.  Added "squadronDetails.php" to the sitemap.xml

2.  login to Google Webmaster Tools and reindexed the sitemap.

3.  ran a search from the website  (searched for "CPQVO610")

I get a "no results" response.

Hi,

Did you add the full URL path to the sitemap? For example:

http://qc.aircadetleagueofcanada.ca/en/squadronOperations.php

Could you show me the code from your sitemap.xml file? 

Thanks!

Greg

Yes, I did use the full url.  I have attached the sitemap.xml

We need to determine if the problem is related to how the viewer pages work, or related to google custom search.

Can you try adding a plain HTML static page?  For example, if you view-source in your browser on this page http://qc.aircadetleagueofcanada.ca/en/directors.php and save it as directors2.php and add it to the menu, does it then show up in the search results?  Try to put it in the same folder as the other file and keep everything identical so the only difference is that one page is static content and the other is generated by CMSB.

Let me know what you find out.

Dave:  I added the file directors2.php (removed the dynamic portion and replaced it with the words "static test"), added the reference in site map.xml, the tried a search for "static test".  I received a nil return.

i then resubmitted the site map to Google Webmaster tools and ran the search again.  No difference.

ragi

Hi Ragi,

Ok, well if non-cmsb pages aren't showing up in the search either then it's likely a problem to do with how google is indexing the pages.  

The next couple things I can think of to try are to add a link to the footer of the website and see if that gets indexed, or if not to check and see how often Google Custom Search updates it's index.  Failing that you could do some general searches on google custom search not indexing some pages.

Here's some search results I found that may be related:
http://support.google.com/customsearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=115963
https://developers.google.com/custom-search/docs/indexing
http://support.google.com/customsearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=115958

Do you have a link to the specific google product or service you are using? 

Hope that helps!