Client identification for search of the portal by external search engines
For the portal to recognize external search engines, HCL WebSphere Portal provides a client that covers several popular search engines.
This client is implemented according to the Composite Capability/Preference Profiles (CC/PP) standard. It has the capability HTML_SEARCH set. To add more search engines, we can configure the client as required.
Client settings
The client has been implemented with the following settings:
To include search engines that are not covered by the default set, we can do so by using either the administration portlet Manage Clients or the XML configuration interface. For more information see the following topics.Notes:
- User agent:
- (.*(B|b)ot.*)|(.*BOT.*)|(.*(S|s)pider.*)|(.*(S|s)earch.*)| (.*(C|c)rawl(er)?.*)|(.*(G|g)rabber.*)|(.*(Y|y)ahoo.*)| (.*(S|s)lurp.*)|(.*Lycos.*)|(.*Wget.*)
This user agent covers most available large search engines, such as Google, Yahoo!, Lycos, or MSN. This pattern list also accommodates all other search engines that include segments of bot, spider, search, or crawler.
- Capability:
- For each search engine that we want to be able to crawl the portal, we need to set the capability HTML_SEARCH. Search engines usually visit a website twice, the first time to crawl the site, and the second time to validate the content. When a search engine visits a site for the second time, it usually does so by using a normal browser. Therefore enter additional capabilities for supporting the different browser settings. Examples: (HTML_4_0, HTML_IFRAME, HTML_FRAME, HTML_NESTED_TABLE, HTML_2_0, HTML_JAVASCRIPT, HTML_3_2, HTML_3_0, HTML_CSS, HTML_TABLE).
- Manufacturer:
- Search
- Markup:
- HTML
- The search mechanism works correctly for the portal only if the search engine robots are identified to the portal in advance.
- Search on the portal by external search engines requires additional configuration beyond client identification. For more details about this see the topics about Configuring the portal site for search by external search services and Configuring the Search Sitemap portlet for search by external search engines.
Parent topic: Portal administration