SEO problem with Joomla articles

[thomasMerel]

Hello,

I have de following problem:
On my site, I have a problem with SEO articles. In the main menu tab, I have a page that brings me to the list of articles, the page that contains all the items is indeed referenced, but none of the articles are listed on the search engines. So the list of articles is ok but the articles themselves are not referenced...

In addition, the first article (the first in the list so the last set), is visited by the Google robot but once he sees it, he does not know to read, but if I created 2 articles, the first will visited the Google robot, but the second will, he, referenced.

Have you ever had a similar case on your sites? Do you have any solutions? We have already test the links with Google developper tools, but no success.

Thank you in advance for your answers.

[waarnemer]

Setup a sitemap (xmap) and submit that to webmaster tools...
(you can check the sitemap if these articles do show up correctly too)

[thomasMerel]

We tried 2 days ago, Xmap doesn't work with our Joomla. We tried to contact Xmap support too, but they didnt answer

[waarnemer]

What do you mean with "XMAP doesn't work with our joomla?"
It can take a while for them to answer... (my experience too) But usually xmap works straight out of the box..

Explain me what exactly does not work? Can you get us the URL to your site?

[thomasMerel]

Xmap probably not compatible with our version of Joomla, and we can't update (PHP version limit) or Joomla crash when we update it.

[waarnemer]

Xmap is for 1.5, 2.5 and 3.x

http://www.jooxmap.com/news/8-xmap-2-3-4-released.html

Check if you have the appropriate extensions which come with it enabled

[Zemplate]

There are free sitemap creators on the web that will provide a sitemap.xml file for your site.

Once it is made, look over the file in a text editor and see if your pages are being found by the sitemap creator. If they aren't in the list of pages, there is some issue with your internal links.

Also, be sure that you have the correct setting in Global Configuration on the Site Tab near the bottom. You should have "Robots" set to "Index, Follow" for the site.

[tasolglobal2014]

First you check the crawl status of you website in GWT.

[secrets]

Get SEOBoss it works great

[oakmarklondon]

Agree with Zemplate just google free sitemap creator make xml file submit it go webmastertools and as soon as your site is crawled it should apperan in search engine given that your website is crawlable.
If you have any problems making the sitemap there are pleanty of tutorials

[thomasMerel]

We have sitemaps.xml for over two months

Google bot found 169 articles, but we have 180 articles on the site and 210 original articles, also, google bot visit 160 pages a day

[sadra]

hi thomasmerel
do you check
https://code.google.com/p/googlesitemapgenerator/
and install it?

[thomasMerel]

I'm goiing to test this

[sharongilliard]

I am just go through this problem and i will get back you soon after any result.

[idxwebhost]

firstly create sitemap.xml file to (www.xml-sitemaps.com) and upload your site.

[thomasMerel]

We have sitemaps.xml for over two months

[thomasMerel]

Up!

summary of the problems :
-Breadcrumb always at "home".
-10 articles not listed by Google.

[ilead]

updated articles are indexed in Google automatically. Now Google has fast their indexing process, but now Google is not indexing duplicate content. Make sure your article content is original by some plagiarism tools. If you are article is original and not duplicated then I suggest you to use Fetch tool available in Google webmaster tools. First submit your website in Google webmaster tool and use this tool to get indexed your fresh and original content just in two hours.

[thomasMerel]

Google Webmaster Tool, don't found any duplicate content

[waarnemer]

what's the URL of the site?

[thomasMerel]

http://www.orinox.fr/fr/

[waarnemer]

Ok when I click that http://www.orinox.fr/fr/ and I browse a little,
What I see is urls without id numbers. Did you create menu entries per article?

Second what I see is that when click on english the link says http://www.orinox.fr/en/
But I then get redirected to http://www.orinox-engineering.com/en/
You can avoid this by using this: https://www.yireo.com/software/joomla-e ... ge-domains. You can even drop the locale in the url with that I believe.. but currently I would leave that for a while as you have the locale indexed..

For the missing pages, can you give me a few urls of pages not indexed?

[thomasMerel]

Ok, we have result the problem, it's the bredcrumbs.

What have we done :
-Create new menu
-Create new article
-Set the new article Home
-Take the old home page
-Set it the new home.

It's work

thanks to people who help us

[kevin234]

i got the same problem, thank you all

[paramkhiva]

Check For Crawl Errors in Google Webmasters Tools.

[pioneer_1]

Inspider software makes a great one called site map creator. It comes with template for HTML and XML and has many settings. Anyway, this is the one I use for all my sites and does the trick. I have heard that xmapp is very good also. I have not tried it yet. I might on this new project.

[ansaripk]

There are many extensions available for sitemap. In worst case you can submit your articles urls using your webmaster tools as alternate.

[changlee]

Just not make a static sitemap. It has to be dynamic.

First you check the crawl status of you website in GWT.

xMap works perfect with Joomla3. What is the status in WMT? How many URLs are submit and how many are indexed?