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Site indexing

1 - How can I make my site appear in the search results?

Several factors determine whether and where a particular website will appear in the search results. These factors can include the number of sites that have links to that particular site, and the content of the pages.

In addition, the Exalead search results are organized in order of relevance for each user query. Therefore the position of a site will change according to the search terms entered.

If your site is new and not linked to from other sites, you can use our submission form to submit your site so that it may be indexed and therefore included in our search results.

2 - How do I submit my site to the Exalead search engine?

If your site is linked to from other sites already included in Exalead search index, you don't need to do anything. At the time of our next indexing, your site will be 'crawled' (indexed) and added to our engine. If your site is new and not linked to from other sites, use our submission form to submit your site.

3 - What types of documents are indexed by Exalead?

The robot crawls HTML content, and popular office file formats (.pdf, Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Corel WordPerfect, Open Office and Rich Text Format), Shockwave Macromedia Flash, and other multimedia content.

4 - How may I exclude my site from being crawled by the Exalead robot?

If a page is no longer indexable (because it is either in error or excluded by the robots.txt file), it will be removed the next time the engine crawls the site. To accelerate the process, you can submit the page to the engine using our site submission form, and will be removed from the index at that point.

You can also use an HTML META tag to prevent the Exalead robot from indexing certain pages. This tag is placed in the <HEAD> section of your page.

  • To prevent robots from indexing a page on your site, place the following META tag in the <HEAD> section of the page:

    <META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW">

  • To allow robots to index a page, but to instruct them not to follow external links, use the following tag:

    <META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOFOLLOW">