I'm working on a site upgrade and loaded several files into a development directory at http://www.mysite.com/dev

The issue is the website search doesn't find any files when I try to build search. If I try to build a search for http://www.coffeecup.com everything works properly???

It looks like this is something to do with my website server and the way it shows up to these programs. When I run the Coffeecup Sitemapper program I get the same issue. The program does not see all my files and only creates a 1 page sitemap???

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated...

The actual website address is http://www.nexusqps.com and my new website is being developed at http://www.nexusqps.com/dev

I've not created any type of folder structure for my sites. I put all the html files in the root directory. Is this the issue???

The issue is that you do not have any links on your index page for the spider to use. Try viewing your site with a text based web browser such as Lynx. Your menu will not appear, and a spider is basically test based.

One thing you might want to try is putting a set of links at the bottom of your page, or a link to a site map (you will need to make the site map manually).

If you put links at the bottom of your index, you will need to either list all pages, or have another page with links to more pages. As an example, build a footer that has three links, home, services, and company. Then on the head services page, have links to your various services. and also a head company page that has links to those three links.

Hope I explained this clearly. Bill R.
First Baptist Church
Brighter Day Charities
Roberson Family

Thanks, I only have the flash menu. I understand what you are saying and I will make the adjustment.

i have a related issue: my actual web pages are all in the same folder. using the "build search" function, some pages made it to the "search list" in that dialogue box and some did not. i can't see a common link between what was selected and added to the list (such as the file's date, alphabetical order of the file names, etc)...

is there a limit to the amount of pages automatically scanned during the "build search" stage?

i could manually add the missing pages, yet there are MANY more missing than listed and it would be quite time consuming! i am very happy with the program, yet i am still in the "free trail" stage. if i can get this to work and present it at work, they will purchase this coffeecup program.

maybe the "build search" feature limited during the trial period? if that is the case, i need to make sure before presenting it to suggest purchase.

thanks so much!

ayn,

No link, so I can only make guesses.

What type of menu are you using? Flash cannot be spidered. Javascript may not be spidered if the main code is stored in a separate file.

Bill R.
First Baptist Church
Brighter Day Charities
Roberson Family

ooops. forgot to add a link.
it's a "test" link here since the site is active.

http://tinyurl.com/yg46gcy

all html pages are in the same folder, yet seems like "tables" and "posters" made it in fine and other pages did not.

all html pages are in the main folder. these are the files i need searchable and it is the location indexed in the "search builder" scan, yet some pages were indexed, other were not. there are non sub-folders for HTML pages, just images and supporting material which does not need to be searched. i hope that answers your menu question? i am sorry to be a novice in this.

i thought there may be a limit to the amount indexed in the trial version of the software?

thanks!

ayn,

Your menu structure seems like it would be spidered nicely.

I suggest you get in touch with CoffeCup directly to see if their techs can point out the reason for the pages not showing up? Bill R.
First Baptist Church
Brighter Day Charities
Roberson Family

will do! thanks so much for your help!