We have our experts listed in www.expertguide.com.au.   As you can see
from http://www.expertguide.com.au/ExpertList.aspx page (which every
page on our website is linked from).

But for some reason NONE of the search engines are indexing those
pages.  They have indexed every other page, but not those.  Can you
give us answer as why and what we can do to fix this.

Thanks,

Warren

Hi Warren,

The first thing to check is your robots.txt file. Here's a tutorial
page if you need it;

http://www.searchengineworld.com/robots/robots_tutorial.htm

It may be you're inadvertantly denying access to those pages in your
robots.txt file. If you're not using one, you may be able to point the
robots in that direction with a proper robots.txt implementation.

Also; type the following into a google search window;

site:www.expertguide.com.au

You'll see that a lot of pages are indexed - but there are no details
listed and they're not "cached". This is the "google sandbox" working.

It appears to me that the site has only been operational since
sometime in November 2004. That's not a lot of history time for the
search engines to do their indexing work.

I can't find your site in the DMOZ directory - submission here is a must;
http://search.dmoz.org/
You should submit the index page only - but people have been known to
submit subdirectories (such as www.expertguide.com.au/ExpertList.aspx)

There is a lot of Javascript on the page. Search engines like text.
You may want to redesign, move the javascript to a .js file (point the
browsers to that file  - IE; <script type="test/javascript"
src="namethisfile.js"></script>) thereby providing a text and link
heavy index page for the engines to spider.

Feel free to contact;
<a href="http://www.internet-reach.com>Internet Reach</a> for further clarification.

Hi Warren,
the Head-Tag of this page contains this line:
<META content="noindex,FOLLOW" name="ROBOTS">
which tells the searchrobots not to index this page, just to follow.
In order to follow, they need exact links, like, for example: <a
href="ExpertListing_A.aspx">A</a>
Instead I found in your sourcecode <a
href='ExpertListing_A.aspx'>A</a> which I believe is the reason, why
they did not follow.
Somraa

All seems to be working now.