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    • Global_Blue
      Global_Blue last edited by

      Hello, I've tried a crawl for the site www.doctify.co.uk and it's only returned 1 link in the report which is the homepage. Do you know what the issue could be?

      Thanks,

      Nina

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      • DirkC
        DirkC last edited by

        All the links are in javascript - and Mozbot doesn't crawl javascript (Google does however). Try visiting your site with javascript disabled - all you see is a blank page.

        There is a similar question herethat may be can help you finding a solution - try also this post on AJAX & crawlability

        Hope this helps

        Dirk

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        • Global_Blue
          Global_Blue @DirkC last edited by

          Thank you very much for the quick response Dirk. 
          Best,
          Nina

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          • ATP
            ATP last edited by

            I think dirk covered it and i was way off 😄 Ignore this response 😄

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            • Global_Blue
              Global_Blue @ATP last edited by

              Thank you ATP! But I think your response was very good! I think for now the important thing is that the pages are in fact indexed by google which is important but there seems to be an issue with the #! as you have also mentioned. Reading up on the link shared by Dirk about AJAX crawlability the #! in the URL's seem to also be the issue. The solution on there is Javascript function that's part of 'HTML5 History API' called window.history.pushState(). I think I will recommend this to the developers...

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              • Global_Blue
                Global_Blue @ATP last edited by

                Hi again! I was wondering if you could tell me how you checked the link format on our site?

                Many thanks,

                Nina

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                • ATP
                  ATP @Global_Blue last edited by

                  Hi,

                  I don't want to insult you with to basic of an explanation so please tell me if this isn't what you mean and im over simplifying it.

                  Find a link on your website,

                  right click it and click on inspect element, this will bring up a developer panel at the bottom of your browser (its different for each browser, but there are all similar.) It will have the code that makes the link highlighted amongst the rest of the code that makes up the page.

                  For instance the "The Mission" link in your footer has this code
                  The mission

                  <a  ="" link="" tag<br="">href="">  = the URL parameter where the link should follow</a>  = closing the tag where the link stops

                  Best SEO practice is
                  The mission

                  You should then take this 1 step further for best SEO and include a title parameter for the link which would look like this 
                  The mission

                  Edit: Can't spell

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