Portal Express, Version 6.0
Operating systems: i5/OS, Linux, Windows
Search by external search services
You can have external users search the portal site by using search services such as Google or Yahoo!
Search on the portal site by external search services works for public portal pages only, that is, for pages that users can access without a user ID and password.
To make the portal available for search by external search services, register it with the external search service(s) of your choice. Give the URL of the portal to the search service providers so that they can crawl and index the portal site. Depending on how you customize the portal, you might consider indicating the Site Map page rather than the portal home page, or otherwise enhancing the configuration. For details about such scenarios refer to the optional steps in the following section.
Configure the portal site for search by external search services
Optionally, you can configure several additional aspects for search on the portal by external search services:- By default, the Site Map portlet is available on the portal Welcome page.
This way the external crawler crawls only the links of the Site Map portlet.
If you change the portal, place the Site Map portlet on the portal home page. Otherwise the crawler can crawl all portal links and might trigger unwanted actions by action links, such as a Delete button. If you do not want your users to be able to see the Site Map portlet, choose one of the following options for placing the Site Map portlet:
- Place the Site Map portlet in the theme of the portal home page.
- Place the Site Map portlet on a separate page, and omit that page from the portal navigation.
The location of the Site Map portlet in the portal determines the URL by which you register to the external search service.
- You can configure the Site Map portlet to determine the depth to which the portal can be searched. For details refer to Configuring the Site Map portlet for search by external search engines.
- You can configure client identification for the external search engines. For details refer to Client identification for search of the portal by external search engines.
- You can configure the URL normalization. For details about this parameter refer to the State Manager Service under the information about URL normalization. For more information about portal service configuration parameters and how to set them refer to Portal service configuration and Setting configuration properties.
- Configuring the Site Map portlet for search by external search engines
- Client identification for search of the portal by external search engines