On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 4:26 AM, Edward Peters edward.peters@uk.iofc.org wrote:

Does anyone know a way of getting the search engine to index static html files in the files directory? The Search Attachments module does a good job with PDFs, Docs etc, but I don't know how to do plain html files.

Here are a couple ideas why they wouldn't get indexed:

1) The files directory is excluded by robots.txt and/or some rules in your .htaccess 2) The content is too new and the engines just haven't prioritized seeing it yet 3) You don't have any links to those pages on the anonymously available parts of your site so the search engines don't know about it because there is no link to it.

If item 1 is the problem, just remove the files directory from robots.txt or .htacess If item 2 is the problem, be patient :)

If item 3 is the problem, you could add the links in a place that makes sense. You could also use the xmlsitemap module and visit admin/settings/xmlsitemap/additional to add "additional" pages outside of the normal Drupal items that get added via the xmlsitemap suite of modules. http://drupal.org/project/xmlsitemap

Regards, Greg