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Hi I created a campaign against http://www.universalpr.com, and this campaign reports that only one page has been crawled.

This site uses a jsvascript redirect to the real page which can be found through the following:

www.universalpr.com/wps/portal/universal/univhome/!ut/p/c5/04_SB8K8xLLM9MSSzPy8xBz9CP0os_hQdwtfCydDRwN_Jw9LA0-LAOPQYCdDI_9QY_1wkA6zeAMcwNFA388jPzdVPzi1WL8gO68cANNcdLU!/dl3/d3/L2dBISEvZ0FBIS9nQSEh/

Now I also attempted to create a campaign against this page in case that the javascript redirect was breaking things, but that campaign also reported 1 page crawled.

Can anyone instruct me as to what I'm doing wrong?

Thank you

Thanks for your input. It's just as I though apparently we should re-think our strategy into using the WCM servlet directly instead of through Portal. When WCM is used through Portal via the WCM portlet the content item is fetched through that WCM_GLOBAL_CONTEXT parameter, but the parameter itself seems less relevant to Google.

I'll look into this. Thank you for all your help.

Hi and thank you for your help. The site in question is the following: http://www.universalpr.com/

In this platform the URL holds session information such as the language, navigational state, among other things. Now this platform has a normalization process that detects the user-agent and looks for bots such as the Googlebot. Once portal detects a crawler bot it strips out most of the session information out of the URL. The end result is still not pretty, but it aims for consistency otherwise you could get a huge number of URLs that reference the same content.

When using WebSphere Portal with Lotus WCM (the CMS) content is displayed as modules or sections of the page that are called portlets; such portlets don't have direct access to the HEAD. This makes using canonical URLs is a bit challenge. However we're working on finding a way to write to the HEAD for updating the TITLE and adding canonical elements to the pages.

The following are two other examples that use this platform:

• http://www.ncaa.org/ - This site uses WCM stand alone and it redirects to WebSphere Portal only whenever necessary (i.e. the login). The benefits of this approach is that they can use canonical elements and that the can update their titles depending on which content is being displayed.
• http://miamidade.gov/ - Miami Dade is a lot similar to my example; which is www.universalpr.com. In Miami Dade's case the use the Lotus WCM portlet. If you click around this site you'll see that their Title is always the same and that they don't use canonical elements in their page either.

It goes without saying that I could benefit from using the NCAA's approach, however this would require quite a bit of re-work.

These are some of the shortcomings that I can identify with my limited experience in SEO. If you need any more details at all please let me know.

Thank you,

Hi I'm working on performing SEO on a portal that's implemented on WebSphere Portal with Lotus WCM.

Now WebSphere Portal comes with some limitations such as non-pretty urls among other things. Portal also generates non-normalized urls, so you have to turn on a process for detecting and normalizing urls for the Googlebot, etc.

Does anyone have any experience with SEO in this platform, and could offers me a few tips for this specific platform?

Thank you

I will thank you.

I see, it was a long shot anyways.

Thank you for your response and for the referral.

I been implementing a Joomla site and my site has different ways of accessing several links therefore I need to use the canonical tag.

Now I'm using Joomla 1.6, and most of the extensions that I've seen until now don't provide me the expected or they do other things that I just don't want.

Therefore other than modifying the code or creating an extension myself I've decided to look into placing the canonical elements in the page.