Multi-page indexing

dietric · Post by **dietric** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 10:22 am

Some of our content is split across multiple pages. When indexing, the search appliance will, naturally, create separate index entries for those.
When performing a search containing keywords that match anything in the title or the meta tags of that page, I will retrieve a result for each page, which is not wanted. Do you have any suggestions how I could prevent that?
Just excluding everything but the first page is not an option, since that would exclude finding matches based on the actual body of the pages...

Post by **John** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 10:50 am

I assume you would still want page 2 or 3 of content to come as a result if a match? In that case on the subsequent pages surrounding the title, meta etc. with <NOINDEX></NOINDEX> and excluding that content would be one method.

dietric · Post by **dietric** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 10:56 am

I thought about that, and that would somewhat work. However, I would not get a match if the query contained a keyword for the body AND the title, correct?

Post by **John** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 2:12 pm

Correct. The title will either be data to be searched or not be searched. You would also miss results where one term was on page 1 and the second on page 2. Delivering the entire content to the appliance, and letting the user then page through may be an alternative.