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Search Engines Don't Index Content In Office Live's HTML Modules

It doesn’t appear that Googlebot (or other spiders, for that matter) index content inside an HTML module. I’ve always wondered about this, so I decided to test it with my site designerwebsites.org. Here's what I did:

First, I typed site:designerwebsites.org in Google. That returned 11 pages – all pages on the site.
Next, I searched within results for Building Web Sites with Office Live, which is the heading of the home page. I got back 7 results. The heading is in Zone 1. So it appeared in bold as the first of 7 results. The remaining 6 entries appeared because the search phrase happens to be in the tiles of those pages. So far so good.
Then I searched withing results for AcxedeWidget, which is a phrase on the home page but, unlike the heading, is inside an HTML module. Google returned nothing!

I tried this exercise with several other sites, pages, and search phrases. Same result.

Moral of the story? Search engines can’t (or don’t) index content within Office Live Small Business’s HTML modules.

So much for making your pages prettier with HTML!

May 14. 2008 09:55 PM

Hi
I tried submitting my sitemap to google's webmaster tools. But i get the following error message

Unsupported file format
Your Sitemap does not appear to be in a supported format. Please ensure it meets our Sitemap guidelines and resubmit.

The solution it gave was

Your Sitemap does not appear to be in a supported format. Please ensure it meets our Sitemap guidelines and resubmit.

Some things you might check are:

    * That the file uses the correct header. For a Sitemap file, the header can look like this:

      <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

              <urlset xmlns="www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">

      For a Sitemap index file, the header can look like this:

      <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

              <sitemapindex

              xmlns="www.sitemaps.org/.../0.9">

    * That the namespace in the header is "http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9". Note that this must end in 0.9. If it ends in .9, you'll see an error.

    * That each XML attribute is enclosed in either single quotes (') or double quotes (") and that those quotes are straight, not curly. If you use a word processing program, such as Microsoft Word, you may find that it inserts curly quotes.

How to solve this?