Google does not find Filemaker generated pages 1

[Graham64]

We are using filemaker to generate page content. A search via google finds
no pages with filemaker URLs. If we search on a text string in one of the
pages (so we know it actually exists) google does not find this.
Commercially this is quite important as we are a major educational research
facility, with many projects that we post information about into our
database to generate pages on the fly.
We want to make such pages visible to google and other search engines
Any suggestions please.

graham

http://www.ultralab.net

 

[lebisol]

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[Graham64]

Lebisol, thanks for the pointer, we were aware of that route. However the problem is deeper and appears more tecnically based.

Google appears not to read any page that has a filemaker generated URL. so getting a page catalogued in a directory, will not solve the problem.

We are going to try a url re-write by fronting the apges with APACHE, but are not confient that this will fix the problem,

Any further thoughts would be appreciated.

graham

http://www.ultralab.net

 

[lebisol]

sure thing Graham64!
hmmm...I am not sure about re-writes when served by FM..but perhas tweaking httaccess will do....I know of teaks on PHP-Apache-FM that DO work! ( I have seen some post on fmforums.com)
also,consider using robots.txt to guide robots through your site structure
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[lebisol]

the more I think about this issue I would suggest u try to implement some token or sesssion variables concept.....URL re-writes is good tool but the problem is if google can drill down through URLs so can someone else....unless the pages need to be fully public.
if u have "admin" or "private" section of pages then.....then we need to extend this thread
What FM sufferes from is much like "SQL URL injection".....in FM I guess we can call it "XML Injection"
Anyhow....let me know perhaps we can discuss this more in a new thread "Security in FM on the web" or something....

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