| Published docs will be crawlable soon | Marie | 9/17/09 3:50 PM | Hi everyone, In about two weeks we will be launching a change for published docs. The change will allow published docs that are linked to from a public website to be crawled and indexed, which means they can appear in search results you see on Googl |
| Re: Published docs will be crawlable soon | Gill | 9/17/09 3:52 PM | Marie - I think this makes it very important that you bring back the indication on the docs listing of those files that are published. Maybe a separate label/folder of published docs/spreadsheets? |
| Re: Published docs will be crawlable soon | ahab | 9/18/09 12:49 AM | This contains a contradiction: if I don't want my published documents to be crawled, I should still be able to keep them published; by un-publishing them they are no longer published documents.Please don't suggest un-publishing as a solution where th |
| Re: Published docs will be crawlable soon | Gill | 9/18/09 9:22 AM | As I understand it published docs are only crawled if they are "linked to from a publicly crawled webpage". But of course there might be old links in cached versions of those web pages even if you were to remove the link now. I suppose the workaround |
| Re: Published docs will be crawlable soon | Felicity_BB | 9/20/09 11:16 PM | I think that's nice--an additional functionality. However, it would be good if GoogleDocs also gave individual documents the same functionality as an ordinary webpage to request no crawling. |
| Re: Published docs will be crawlable soon | kagashe | 9/25/09 1:45 AM | At present I can't use my own CSS on Google Sites but I can use it in Google Doc, publish it and put it on Google Site in iframe. This Doc put in iframe is not crawled at present. With this change this Doc will be crawled, therefore, for all practic |
| Re: Published docs will be crawlable soon | BP1 | 9/25/09 9:47 AM | Can you also add a search that shows which of users documents are published. Right now you could have published documents. And a year later forget about them. So we need to know which documents are published. Looking forward to the new search featu |
| Re: Published docs will be crawlable soon | Gill | 9/25/09 9:48 AM | Yes, I think so - because the link to the doc in the iframe is in the code for the main web page, so the iframe doc is indeed "linked to from a publicly crawled webpage". |
| Re: Published docs will be crawlable soon | Taa Dixon | 9/26/09 7:55 AM | Good to know...this is big news and can potentially have a big impact for small businesses looking to maximize organic SEO. I haven't used Google docs yet, but now that I see pages will be indexed I am re-thinking my strategy going into 4th quarter. |
| Re: Published docs will be crawlable soon | Docs Rocker | 10/6/09 5:52 PM | wow, this is going to be really cool! I'm going to be looking foward to this new feature! Good luck google! |
| Re: Published docs will be crawlable soon | MattCole | 2/17/10 3:06 AM | Hi - does this mean that documents inserted into my site will be searchable by the 'Search this Site' function? Uptil now anything inserted as a Google doc into the site has been invisible to this. |