Sorry if this was already answered. I've been searching around the site and couldn't find it.

First, I see that SiteMap.aspx is excluded in the robots.txt file. I'm guessing that this is to avoid duplicate issues or something of that nature. Can you explain the reasoning, or point me to a previous post? I have to explain the decision to others on my team.

Also, is anyone else having issues with Google indexing their sites? I submitted the sitemap.ashx file through webmaster tools, Google has acknowledged the existence of the sitemap, but it has not indexed a single page. It's really strange because we launched the site about  4 months ago. We also put a 301 redirect in for every single page on the old site, and the domain has to be at least 8 years old. Any ideas? I don't think that it has anything to do with mojoPortal, but I just want to confirm because it's really puzzling.

Thanks Joe,

Google is crawling the site, and it will show up in search results, webmaster tools is just telling me that none of the pages are being committed to Google's index. Do you understand what I'm talking about?

There aren't any unusual redirects. We just put 301s on all of the old pages, but we redirected them to the page where we moved the content to in mojoPortal. It's really strange, because I would have thought that we would have had at least a couple pages committed to the index by now.

Thanks for the explanation of the sitemap.aspx page. It makes sense to me, why would you need an html sitemap for search engines if you have an XML version? Your explanation makes more technical sense as well. I will pass it along.

Thanks!

When you look at your sitemap status in Google webmaster tools you see the columns "URLs Submitted" and "URLs in web index". The "URLs in web index" column is showing a zero for me, but Google is still aware that my site exists and will return it in search results. I can't really find a straight answer of why this happens...

Thanks for the response. We launched in January, and the cache says that it was last cached on April 7th and an interior page was last cached on March 1st. In short, it has been cached since launch.