We just moved to Acquia Cloud hosting and we've realized that a few of our pages aren't being indexed by Google.
There is a distinct difference about these pages that is probably at least related to the cause and that is that these pages are generated by PHP encapsulated in the body field of a page node. Said PHP queries a non-acquia database and builds the page. The important piece of this is that the page looks at GET variables to build the query string, namely a variable called 'id'. The URL is then the page node's alias concatenated with ?id=XXX where XXX is the id of the element for which to query.
I know this is by no means best-practice for a page node and we are in the process of converting this functionality to module but, for now, we have what we have.
When I 'curl -IL' one of these pages with the ?id=XXX appended (i.e. http://www.domain.com/site/aliasPart1/aliasPart2?id=XXX), I find in the return:
Link: http://www.domain.com/site/node/24490; rel="shortlink",http://www.domain.com/site/aliasPart1/aliasPart2; rel="canonical"
the GET variable is getting truncated!
It looks like that's why Google isn't indexing these pages. My question for all of you is: is this why Google is not indexing these pages? If so, what can I do to fix it?
Thanks, Tim
