Odd search results

[moxxy]

Hello,

We built a website for a client and integrated Zoom search into the site. The website is a Wordpress website and is essentially a PDF archive for a weekly newspaper. The issue we are having is that almost all search results are returning the 2014 issues, where there are issues as far back as 2008. I have gone through the User Guide and done my best to configure the indexing appropriately, however I am a little stuck.

All of the PDF files had been created from original InDesign files and are indexable.

The URL is http://www.rossmoornews.com — any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

[David]

I had a look at your site.
You seem to only have a small number of pages in the index. Maybe 50?

Is the only way to view past issues from the drop down list on this page?
http://www.rossmoornews.com/past-issues/

Search engines typically only follow HTML links. And the links in your drop down are not HTML, they are generated by a user mouse selection and a form submission. So the engine can't follow them.

Try adding some normal HTML links.
e.g. at the bottom of the 2014 page add this code,
<a href="/past-issues/?past-issue-year=2013">Prior year</a>

[David]

If the above doesn't solve it, next step would be to validate the HTML code on the /past-issues/ page. Your HTML isn't valid HTML at the moment.

Then check the Zoom log to see what pages are found and indexed.

[moxxy]

Thank you. I'll work on the suggestions you suggested. I appreciate it.