Xpage Pagers and Google SEO

HCL Domino Domino Forum
1

In Xpages, the custom control pages can be used for browsing the views. The scripts on the page take care for the correct post to the Domino server for retrieving the next or previous part of the view. The href of next and previous specifies href=“#”.

Using “#” is not OK for Google search engine optimization. In fact only the first rows of the view are catched by google and the other rows of the view which can be views by previous and next are even not catched by Google.

Are there properties to set for getting something like href=“?RowStart=40&Rows=20”. Are there other custom controls available?

2

Subject: try making a sitemap xml file

you may want to learn about setting up a sitemap xml file that you can autosubmit to google to have them spider the links you want.

3

Subject: Why use xpage?

I would think a normal notes view is more suitable for search engines. Simply create a view that contains the links you want, and a view template that only contains simple next page link. Any spider worth it’s salt will spider each document and then follow the ‘next page’ url

Very simple, check out the various ROBOT meta tags to further control search behaviour.

S