Dynamic to static change

I have recently changed a majority of the code on my site at http://www.teamap.com from dynamically generated to static html, but google seems to only visit the top level page (daily). Virtually all of the hundred of pages on the site are caches as they stood 3-6 months ago.

There are a few dozen inbound links to the site. It is also ranked at PR5. I can't image i have done anything to warrant google slapping me on the wrist, so I am at a lose. Any help would be most appreciated.

-Ilya

I think google will pick them up fine, just give it some time.

Why did you change to static HTML? That seems a bit counter productive and doesnt help with SEO at all.

The only problem with dynamic pages is URL parameters, which spiders won't follow, but these can be removed by using ISAPIrewrite (IIS) or mod_rewrite (Apache). the other potential problem is constantly changing content, but I assume you didnt have that.

In short, no reason to go static really......

You are in serious trouble, my friend.
Here is what a search engine spider simulator gave me when I checked your site:

spidered Text :
TeaMap Choose State... Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut DC Delaware Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming Site Map © Copyright 2004, Tea Map. All Rights Reserved.


Spidered Links :
http://www.adagio.com
http://www.teamuse.com
http://www.teachat.com
http://www.teamap.com/index.html
/tearooms/franchia_722.html
/content_list.html


That link leading to your sitemap doesn't seem to be helping, you need to create several links to your main pages ASAP.

is this serious trouble? fryman, please clarify what is so wrong?

The spider can only see some links pointing to other websites. There is no way for it to locate the inner pages of this one.

If you visit the site, you will see that there is no way of going to another page except by using that weird selection box. The spider doesn't seem to like it, so this website needs some normal html links to get to the other pages.

The reason that I changed the content was because I read google has problems with variables being passed via the URL. I am still able to serve up dynamic content via mason, and the url is (hopefully) more SE-friendly.

The "/content_list.html" file is the site map. Isn't that enough for google to get into the guts of the site?

-Ilya

I must admit i didnt analyse the site with any tools.

Google has problems with more than 2 URL parameters in general. However, ISAPIrewrite changes the URL's completely according to a regular expression which you can create yourself.

So URL:
domain.com?param=value&param=value&param=value

Could be made to look like:
domain.com/param/value/param/value/param/value.htm

Google cant tell the difference between that and a static page.

I have a totally dynamic site, we have over 60,000 pages of content. Google is still indexing, but we stand at just over 1600 indexed pages at the moment. I use ISAPIrewrite on all my sites, it's pretty good and gives you more flexibility. Cheap too, $75 (If I remember correctly)

If google has no problem with passing variables, then I have another question. Why does a google search for "site:www.teamap.com" result in 300 pages of "www.teamap.com/tearoom.html?number=xxx" links with no title, description, etc... If google is aware of these pages, why hasn't it indexed them in months?