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February 10, 2011 11:39am
Subscribe [2]#1 / Feb 10, 2011 11:39am
I have a site that was under development put on hold for a long period of time.
Now that we are going live it is shocking that google has never crawled the site.
This is one time I removed the index.php seme the urls using an htaccess file.
Could this file be causing me problems?
Here is a copy of what is in the file:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond $1 !^(images|admin|accordion|tinymce|js|css|sitemap.php|themes|favicon\.ico|robots\.txt|index\.php) [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]#2 / Feb 10, 2011 4:13pm
No, I don’t think that’s got anything to do with it. Since it’s almost certainly not an EE issue, however, I’m going to move this to “General”. Thanks.
#3 / Feb 15, 2011 11:42am
What makes you think Google should have crawled it?
If its been in development I assume you don’t have any inbound links from indexed sites? I doubt Google will simply ‘find’ your site - I think unless you’ve told Google about it, or allowed the site to be found through links from already indexed sites, then it’s expected behaviour.