You are viewing a plain text version of this content. The canonical link for it is here.
Posted to user@struts.apache.org by Jim Reynolds <ji...@gmail.com> on 2006/03/25 02:27:49 UTC

View Not Correctly Being Indexed by searchengines.

Hello,

I created a ecommerce site using struts and opened it up about 6
months ago. Ever since its inception, I have had trouble getting my
site indexed by google, or any other searchengine.

I am using servlet mapping of ".do". I cannot understand for my life,
but it appears that when the robots see a link for something like:
http://www.mysite.com/context/welcome.do that it does not actually
call the page, which calls welcome.jsp which is where my "metas" are.
(But If I call that link from a browser, of course the page shows). I
can source it, and see all my metas.

Is this a struts problem, or a MVC problem with searchengines?

So in desperation, I purchased a product today called WebPosition, and
started pointing to my pages like
http://www.mysite.com/context/welcome.do and it says I do not even
have a title. It does not see the .jsp page that struts forwards to.

Does anyone have any explanation why this is occuring? Anyone give me
pointers how to resolve this. I am getting desperate and could use a
hand.

Sincerely

---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscribe@struts.apache.org
For additional commands, e-mail: user-help@struts.apache.org

Re: View Not Correctly Being Indexed by searchengines.

Posted by Mark Lowe <me...@gmail.com>.
Here's something you may find handy

http://tuckey.org/urlrewrite/manual/2.6/guide.html

<outbound-rule encodefirst="true">
    <condition name="user-agent">googlebot.*</condition>
    <from>^(.*);jsessionid=.*(\?.*)$</from>
    <to>$1$2</to>
</outbound-rule>

On 3/25/06, Mark Lowe <me...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Sessionid's can cause problems, some spiders understand
> ;jsessionid=[the id] is part of the url. Therefore everytime the bot
> comes around it thinks its a different page.
>
> The usual thing to do is remove sessionid for spiders. Attention needs
> to be paid in case the application depends on the session is any way,
> but thats rarely the case with product pages..
>
> Mark
>
> On 3/25/06, Jim Reynolds <ji...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I created a ecommerce site using struts and opened it up about 6
> > months ago. Ever since its inception, I have had trouble getting my
> > site indexed by google, or any other searchengine.
> >
> > I am using servlet mapping of ".do". I cannot understand for my life,
> > but it appears that when the robots see a link for something like:
> > http://www.mysite.com/context/welcome.do that it does not actually
> > call the page, which calls welcome.jsp which is where my "metas" are.
> > (But If I call that link from a browser, of course the page shows). I
> > can source it, and see all my metas.
> >
> > Is this a struts problem, or a MVC problem with searchengines?
> >
> > So in desperation, I purchased a product today called WebPosition, and
> > started pointing to my pages like
> > http://www.mysite.com/context/welcome.do and it says I do not even
> > have a title. It does not see the .jsp page that struts forwards to.
> >
> > Does anyone have any explanation why this is occuring? Anyone give me
> > pointers how to resolve this. I am getting desperate and could use a
> > hand.
> >
> > Sincerely
> >
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscribe@struts.apache.org
> > For additional commands, e-mail: user-help@struts.apache.org
> >
> >
>

---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscribe@struts.apache.org
For additional commands, e-mail: user-help@struts.apache.org

Re: View Not Correctly Being Indexed by searchengines.

Posted by Mark Lowe <me...@gmail.com>.
Sessionid's can cause problems, some spiders understand
;jsessionid=[the id] is part of the url. Therefore everytime the bot
comes around it thinks its a different page.

The usual thing to do is remove sessionid for spiders. Attention needs
to be paid in case the application depends on the session is any way,
but thats rarely the case with product pages..

Mark

On 3/25/06, Jim Reynolds <ji...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I created a ecommerce site using struts and opened it up about 6
> months ago. Ever since its inception, I have had trouble getting my
> site indexed by google, or any other searchengine.
>
> I am using servlet mapping of ".do". I cannot understand for my life,
> but it appears that when the robots see a link for something like:
> http://www.mysite.com/context/welcome.do that it does not actually
> call the page, which calls welcome.jsp which is where my "metas" are.
> (But If I call that link from a browser, of course the page shows). I
> can source it, and see all my metas.
>
> Is this a struts problem, or a MVC problem with searchengines?
>
> So in desperation, I purchased a product today called WebPosition, and
> started pointing to my pages like
> http://www.mysite.com/context/welcome.do and it says I do not even
> have a title. It does not see the .jsp page that struts forwards to.
>
> Does anyone have any explanation why this is occuring? Anyone give me
> pointers how to resolve this. I am getting desperate and could use a
> hand.
>
> Sincerely
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscribe@struts.apache.org
> For additional commands, e-mail: user-help@struts.apache.org
>
>

---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscribe@struts.apache.org
For additional commands, e-mail: user-help@struts.apache.org