Search by external search services
You can have external users search your portal site by using search
services such as Google or Yahoo!
Search on your 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 your portal available for search by external search services, register
it with the external search service(s) of your choice. Give the URL of your
portal to the search service providers so that they can crawl and index your
portal site. Depending on how you customize your portal, you might consider
indicating the Site Map page rather than your portal home page, or otherwise
enhancing the configuration. For details about such scenarios refer to the
optional steps in the following section.
Configuring your portal site for search by external search
services
Optionally, you can configure several additional aspects
for search on your 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 your portal, place the Site Map portlet on your 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 your 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
your portal can be searched.
- You can configure client identification for the external search engines.
- You can configure the URL normalization. You do this by setting State
Manager Service properties in the administrative console.
For details about how to perform these tasks refer to the links below.
Parent topic: Search by external users on your portal site
Related tasks
Configuring the Site Map portlet for search by external search engines
Set configuration properties
Related reference
Client identification for search of the portal by external search engines
Related information
Portal configuration services
Portal configuration services
|
|
|
Portal, Express Beta Version 6.1