Hello, It has been pointed out by a submitter that some of my pages are not searching. I have FreeFind on my site on the front page. I thought maybe I had exceeded my limit for FreeFind, but it does not search in Google, either. My site usually Googles very well. One of the pages that does not work is http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ohlake/schools/schtchdir1923intro.html Another page that I uploaded the same day is http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ohlake/schools/homerec.html and it works fine. Do you see anything on the 1923 Directory that I did wrong that would make it not FreeFind or Google? Additionally, since Google has a "search this site" feature where you just put in your search terms followed by a colon and the web site address, is there a way you can put the searcher on the site itself with the search criteria already entered for the site? Of course, I am looking for "free." If FreeFind continues to work, I am happy with no need to change. Thanks, Cynthia Turk http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ohlake/ ____________________________________________________________ Weight Loss Program Best Weight Loss Program - Click Here! http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/c?cp=LANfZNtmNP-43K9w-roORgAAJ1A6FNgRX7gWzryJc4xm-Xw9AAYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAADNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAEUgAAAAA=

You are missing the close body tag (I only checked the first page) at the end: </body> - maybe that's it. Cynthia Turk wrote: > Hello, > > It has been pointed out by a submitter that some of my pages are > not searching. I have FreeFind on my site on the front page. I thought > maybe I had exceeded my limit for FreeFind, but it does not search in > Google, either. My site usually Googles very well. > One of the pages that does not work is > http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ohlake/schools/schtchdir1923intro.html

Cynthia, I am not a user of FreeFind, but when Ancestry started redirecting from www.rootsweb.com to www.rootsweb.ancestry.com back in early 2008 (I think) that created problems for FreeFind users because the base URL after the redirection no longer matches the base URL in the FreeFind configuration, so nothing (new) gets indexed. Here's a thread discussing that: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/RootsWeb-Help/2008-04/1207947088 Wouldn't you be getting error emails from freefind about that, too, since it can no longer index anything? Judging from the last updated lines near the bottom, schtchdir1923intro.html is a brand new page, and so is not in FreeFind, whereas homerec.html existed in Feb 2008, before(?) the redirecting started. As for Google search, what you may be thinking about is the "site:" prefix. That's how you restrict searches to sites whose URL contains the part after "site:". For example, using this as a Google search request: site:www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ohlake/schools/ shows you all the pages in your schools folder that Google spidered. I use that feature to see what Google has accessed from my sites. You can have other search terms to restrict the search even further. Like site:www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ohlake/schools/ 1923 Good luck with solving your FreeFind problem. -- John S. Van Essen, Baxter, Minnesota <vanes002@umn.edu> Crow Wing County USGenWeb Pages: http://www.rootsweb.com/~mncrowwi/ On Sat, 21 Nov 2009, Cynthia Turk <cynthia.turk@juno.com> wrote: > Hello, > > It has been pointed out by a submitter that some of my pages are > not searching. I have FreeFind on my site on the front page. I thought > maybe I had exceeded my limit for FreeFind, but it does not search in > Google, either. My site usually Googles very well. > One of the pages that does not work is > http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ohlake/schools/schtchdir1923intro.html > Another page that I uploaded the same day is > http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ohlake/schools/homerec.html and it > works fine. > Do you see anything on the 1923 Directory that I did wrong that would > make it not FreeFind or Google? > > Additionally, since Google has a "search this site" feature where you > just put in your search terms followed by a colon and the web site > address, is there a way you can put the searcher on the site itself with > the search criteria already entered for the site? Of course, I am > looking for "free." If FreeFind continues to work, I am happy with no > need to change. > Thanks, > Cynthia Turk > http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ohlake/

At 06:34 PM 11/21/2009, you wrote: >Additionally, since Google has a "search this site" feature where you >just put in your search terms followed by a colon and the web site >address, is there a way you can put the searcher on the site itself with >the search criteria already entered for the site? You can put a Google search box on your site and instruct it to search only your site, e.g. (remove the leading dots inserted to prevent the code from executing) <.form method="get" action="http://www.google.com/search"> <.input type="text" name="q" size="31" maxlength="255" value="" /> <.input type="submit" value="Google Search" /> <.br /> <.input type="radio" name="sitesearch" value="" /> The Web <.input type="radio" name="sitesearch" value="your_URL_goes_here" checked /> Your site name <.br /> <./form> However, while Freefind will spider your entire site, the above search will only return those pages spidered by Google. Pat