Question about search engines and indexing

[Corky§urprise]

Quick post-
When you come to submitting your website to a search engine. e.g. google it asks for your URL. No problem. And it appears in the search. However, only the website URL appears in the search engine, e.g. www.example.com (http://www.example.com)
how do i get stuff like www.example.com/something.htm (http://www.example.com/something.htm) to be indexed in a search engine??

Thanks

Mike

[Ankou]

When you submit the link to Google it'll send out it's bot for indexing. It should automatically go through your links and index the other pages at your site.

Of course if your site is dynamic you want to try to have the URLs be search engine friendly (www.example.com/?cat=articles&id=2&page=3 (http://www.example.com/?cat=articles&id=2&page=3) could be made into www.example.com/articles/2/3/ (http://www.example.com/articles/2/3/) or something along those line). You can use a number a methods to do that - Apache's mod_rewrite for example.


And of course the more other sites link back to the page (www.example.com/something.htm (http://www.example.com/something.htm)) the sooner it could be indexed.

Give it a little time, Goggle even says that not ever page submitted will be indexed. I'm not sure how often they index sites so it may take a little while. That or those pages are already indexed but just appear very low in the rank. It also will depend on the search terms you're using.