Search engine spiders cannot explore the RoboHelp pages?

I had always thought that search engines were unable to crawl and index RoboHelp content for SEO purposes.  But many of the pages on my site www.numbercruncher.com client are appearing in Google search results.  Can someone help me understand what are the constraints for this? Or send me somewhere that I can get the details?  I've looked everywhere and don't know where to look.

Hi Lyza

I hope that John won't mind my offer here a few snippets that can help illustrate the issue.

Maybe a little experience will help here.

Open Google and search for the term: build labels on the infusion and note high link see you. It should read February 2004.

Click on this link and note what you see.

Now click on the following link: click here to see

Sound familiar?

What you should see is a page within a WebHelp system. Nothing special that it either has been done to make this happen. In other words, search engines have been able to index this page simply because it is available on the web. No site map has been created. Nothing special was done.

Some people are working under the assumption that, because WebHelp and FlashHelp are presented using framesets, this content can be found. This may have been true years ago, but advances in the methods of indexing overcome this issue a long time ago.

Now, Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a completely different animal and there are entire companies and consultants who profess to help SEO and increase your ranking.

See you soon... Rick

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