Subpage content not indexed by Google

  • hybridE4t

    (@hybride4t)


    13 years ago

    I recently converted a website to WordPress. Most of the content is held on subpages which all have their own permalink page id. However, it appears that only the top level parent pages’ content and posts are appearing on Google. Even searching for an exact phrase from most of the website’s content will not return any results on Google. I think the issue is best summed up by searching “site:www.tlibaert.info” on Google.

    Example:
    1) Browse to https://www.tlibaert.info/?lang=en
    2) Click the Books top level heading
    3) Pick a book e.g. La communication corporate
    4) This (sub)page will never appear in Google search results

    Where have I gone wrong?

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  • Thread Starter hybridE4t

    (@hybride4t)

    Is it because my subpages don’t contain a link rel="start/prev/next" unlike my pages and posts? If so, how do I make sure WordPress adds them?

    your books is loaded from JavaScript. see this

    JavaScript content is not index by Google

    Hi,

    There is nothing wrong with the setup.

    Your example page and the book does appear in the Google search results. Please do a search for “site:www.tlibaert.info page_id=22” on Google. It brings the example book “La communication corporate” in the search results.

    Cheers,
    Pothi

    Thread Starter hybridE4t

    (@hybride4t)

    Thanks for pointing that out. A couple of weeks ago nothing would have been returned but perhaps I just needed to wait more time for the subpages to get indexed.

    I guess my updated problem is therefore twofold:

    1) Subpage content appears much lower in Google ranking than it used to in the non-WordPress version of the site – Due to the JavaScript loading?
    2) Clicking on a subpage Google search result opens the content but not within the context and layout of the website.

    Example result: https://www.tlibaert.info/?page_id=748&lang=en
    Should be: https://www.tlibaert.info/?page_id=106&pagetabs=1&pagemenus=1

    Solutions to the above:
    1) Does this need a non JavaScript redesign or can I fully offset the JS issue with a sitemap or other workaround?
    2) How do I ensure search engines pick up the full and specific links?

    I can see your page will index without layout. so i suggest use a non JavaScript Design also i suggest to use permalink to avoid querystring like ?page_id=748&lang=en to /en/topic. also use xml sitemap and submit to Google

    Thanks

    Thread Starter hybridE4t

    (@hybride4t)

    Many thanks for your input – it’s much appreciated whilst I get to grips with WordPress ??

    I already have permalinks in place so am unsure why everything does not always make use of them. In the short-term I’ll need to stick with JavaScript as a redesign will be a fair amount of work. I’ll definitely implement a sitemap.xml asap and see if that improves things.

    Interesting to note:
    Whilst https://www.tlibaert.info/?page_id=748&lang=en looks horrible https://www.tlibaert.info/?page_id=748 without the translation (where available) looks fine. So perhaps my qTranslate plugin implementation is messing with my permalinks.

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