Crawl Issues

[CohesiveMarketing]

My website - qtmoving.com - has 26 articles and when the SEOmoz did a crawl it only found 13 articles.  Can someone please give me some insight as to why not all pages are being crawled.

[sferrino]

I just went through it pretty quick and noticed that:

1. you don't have an xml sitemap, usually named sitemap.xml

2. You are using javascript for your drop down menu items,

The 2 above factors will keep all engines from being able to crawl your site fully.

What I would do is just create a sitemap in the footer so that there is a physical link to each page that is not javascript based.

[davieshussein]

Hi, I think that, like Steven said, your dropdowns may be a problem. The actual menus are generated completely by javascript and the links in the sub-navigation menus are not physically part of the HTML source. It's actually pretty unnecessary to do that since they can be a part of the source and still act like a dropdown menu regardless using JavaScript. It may mean some changes to your javascript but the gains made definitely outweigh.

It's just as easy to have the links physically in the HTML source and hide them with JavaScript than to have them generated on the fly. (I imagine it'd make things quicker as well since you're not having to create DOM objects all the time since you're just hiding and showing them).

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