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I would very much like to use Google to allow visitors to search my site for content. unfortunately, most of the navigation on my site is done through DHTML menus, not standard links. Because of this (I assume) Google does not follow the DHTML links to each of the pages, and therefore does not find much of my site other than the main page.What I did to rectify this was create a site map with a standard hyperlink to each page of my site. I then placed an invisible hyperlink on my main page. My thinking was that the google crawler would find the main page, find the link to the site map and follow it to the site map page, and from there follow the links to all the rest of the pages in my site.However, that has not happened. In fact, google dropped the number of pages it had indexed from 7 to 2! So, I'm thinking I'm missing something in how google indexes pages. My site is at http://www.markrhodes.usThe sitemap is at http://www.markrhodes.us/sitemap.htmThe link to the site map in centered at the bottom of the page (it's white text on white background so it is invisible.)Thanks for any info you can share!Yes because some DHTML menu may use Java Script your menu contains no HTML links. The solution is to use a DHTML menu that does have HTML mark up like: http://www.udm4.com/ alternatively link to your sitemap (your NOT linking to it) or make footer links to your pages.You also need at least 1 site to link to you but should aim for many more!what do you mean i'm not linking to the Sitemap page? The link seems to be working ok. when i click on it, it takes me to the appropriate page.The HTML is Code: [ Select ]ooh, just saw the thread BWM posted about google Site Maps. looks promising . . .it only in Beta. I did not see the site map link. You should be fine just get more back links!Dont make the sitemap link invisible! Google will penalize your site for cloaking. Let it remain visible but place it right at the bottom, and do it something like = Site(Search Engines Only)I did that for my site, and within 20 days, my pages indexed has reached 4950 from the previous 110 i guess the decision to make the link invisible was more aesthetic than anything. i don't want all kinds of extra stuff laying around on the main page.hmmmmm. i may need to find an alternative way to add search to my website. I believe you can get penalized by google for putting text on your page with the same color as your background. You should be able to link any word on your home page and use css to make the word appear to be the same as the rest. If you really do not want a user to know the link exist (which does not make any sense to me) then you can use css to even show no mouse on roll over (make sure you use an external css files to be safe). You will be much better off putting static text links to all your main pages in the footer links of your whole web site. This will help in sharing ranking etc. through out your whole site (some people prefer to share ranking and some like to build it up on one or 2 pages). With SEO you have to be willing to sacrifice a little I believe. JacobSEO_Pro. wrote:well, i'm not really worried about being penalized or where my site shows up in the overall rankings. No one who comes to my site does it through a search engine. The go directly there through word of mouth or links.I just want google to index enough of my site for me to put a usable google search function on there to find content. is it more realistic to put some sort of independent script (PHP?) on the site and use that for search, rather than relying on google to provide the capability?allgoodpeople wrote: