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Allan S.
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After uptated fron X5 11 to X5 12, my search field does not work as it it supposed to do.

Typing in a Name, it does not find the specific name but sometimes other text with some part of the name.

F.ex. Typing Janne Lind, if finds only some text that includes "lind". Typing Janne, it does not find anything at all.

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Esahc ..
Esahc ..
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Allan, can you provide a link to your website so we can test this?

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Esahc ..
Esahc ..
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Thankyou Allan, investigating your problem has been most enjoyable!

Can I assume that you simply loaded the V12 site up to the hosting directory (probably public_html)?

Could you create a directory and upload it there? (eg //public_directory/new) It is possible the old indexes and files did not/cannot get replaced. If we can look at the whole site newly installed it may work as required, if this is the case, you simply need to delete all the content and directories of your current site and do a fresh upload.

I assume there is no searchable content on pages 3 - 17??

Does the V11 version still exist (or can it be uploaded)?

I look forward to looking thru your site once again - very refreshing :-)

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Allan S.
Allan S.
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Thank you for your answer.

Yes, just uploaded the whole site to the hosting directory overwriting the old one.

I am not sure i Know how to do this. Does it mean I have to make e new directory on my server and upload the whole project.

The V11 project does not exist any more. but there are backups called *.iwprj. But I dont know how to restore it.

There is only searchable content on page 1 and 2.

Regards Allancool

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Allan S.
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I have now uploaded a backup version "iwzip" to www.pinups.dk/test.

I have tried that one, but it is still the same. I am afraid this backup was to new.

I will now delete this and try with a complete fresh upload from the project to directory test.

Allan

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Esahc ..
Esahc ..
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Sorry Allan, I have been away a few days. You could create a new directory on your host and simply upload to that directory, then you can simply go to http://www.pinups.dk/TempDirectory/.

If this resolves the issue, you should be able to delete everything in your "public_html" directory and do a full upload.

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Allan S.
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Hi, Thanks.

I did make a comlpete new website and uploaded on http://www.pinups.dk/test I did not work. Then I deleted it and made another with just text taken from an old file. It is still there.

That did not work either. Could it have something with PHP do do, I read somewhere, that I was supposed to have PHP. I don't know what that is. So I asked my hosting company. Thery said that I have PHP 5.2, which is an old version. But they could move me to another version, they just need to know which one.

It is a little strange: If I search for a name with comma separation between first and second name, It finds a little more, but still not all.

I hope this will help you, to come up with an helpfull answer.

Allan

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Claudio D.
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Hello Allan,

The search engine searches for the page which contains the text you entered and then orders them according to the relevance. It won't show directly the text but all possible solutions so you can open the page which contains it.

Many thanks!

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Allan S.
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Yes, but that is what it does not do. It only show a few or no solutions.

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Allan S.
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Thanks,

Try Janne Lind and it will not find it. It finds it if you nnly write janne or only lind. Also try Jane Botham of which there are many, and it does not find any. Only if yoy white botham it finds some.

Try both on the test site and the main site.

The old PHP version i have, it that correct?

Regards

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Claudio D.
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Hello Allan,

It is not showing all the possible results but part of them on the page where "Janne Lind" is present. Since the page has many content it shows the first ones where all or part of it can be found but it.

Try to add on page 2 Janne Lind as content and only a few results and then test if it finds the correct page.

Many thanks!

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Allan S.
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OK, I will try that and let you know after the weekend.

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Esahc ..
Esahc ..
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Allan, your site does not appear to be indexed by google. I do not know if this has any affect on the built in search engine.

Your search - site:www.pinups.dk - did not match any documents.

(perhaps it is excluded because of type of content?)

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Allan S.
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It should be indexed by google. I have paid some SEO experts to do this for me.

Actually the content on the page is only text and some thumbnails. And nothing is downloadable. So I don't think it will be excluded. I think they would have told me.

How do I index it on Google? I don't know very much about this.

I have tried a lot of different methods now,but nothing really works. I have now bought X13 and will start by complete new text. First I will copy the text in X12 to a wordprocessor and format it. Then I will copy it to X13.

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Esahc ..
Esahc ..
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Allan, if you search for your domain name google won't find it, better have a chat with your SEO "experts" :-)

If you google "submit website to google" the first result is an option to add your site to google. There are many other links which may be useful.  WX5 generates a sitemap, so once submitted it should become searchable.

I was playing with searching your site via google search, it is achieved by adding your site name before the search terms "site:www.pinups.dk Janne Lind"

WARNING

NEVER copy text to a wordprocessor. Copy the text to notepad (if the previous text came from a wordprocessor), and then copy and paste that into your text box/s. This strips out unnecessary codes. Wordprocessor (word in particular) text can cause hours of frustration.

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Allan S.
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Thats what i did resently. copied it to Word. but I also copied it to notepad and it was just as bad.

As far as I understand the search field is searching internally and has nothing to do with google unless it is a google search. Am I right?

I made two new sites on pinup.dk/test and test2 and I put Janne Lind on all pages. On test it finds only 2 names on page 2.

On test2 it finds nothing on page 1, 3, and it finds 2 on page 2, but there is only one. On page 4 ift finds one but there are two.

I tried a search in Word, and that worked perfectly.

You are right, my sites are not indexed by Google and that might be because when I copied everything to X5 v12, I think I lost all that with Google. Can I get it back somehow?

As I told you before I have some old backups, but I dont know how to open them?. Se attachments

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Claudio D.
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Hello Allan,

I tested on test2 and it found results on all pages which match the terms. Take in consideration this search engine is different from google. It is not looking for the specific term but for all possible solutions and on the search result pagers it shows the first ones but it tell zou on which page you can find them all.

Many thanks!

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Esahc ..
Esahc ..
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Allan, to restore a backup:-

Using Windows Explorer, rename project.iwprj to something else (currentproject.iwprj just in case you wish to restore it?)

Copy one of your backups from the backup folder to the project folder and rename it project.iwprj

Then start wx5

This will only work if the backups you wish to use were created in the same version of WX5, so if they were created in V11 you need to use V11, you will also need all the other files and most folders in the current project directory. You can download a new install from your profile (top right of your browser) under download, to transfer to 12 or 13 you need to create an iwzip file (export the project - step 5 export)

Once submitted to google the search engine will follow your domain name, using different versions of WX5 will have no effect. Have you submitted your domain to google? It would be interesting to see what the google search engine brings up and if it is closer to your wishes.

Sorry I could not be of more assistance.

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Allan S.
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Thanks I will try that to see if it works.

No, I have not submitted my domain to Google, As I don't understand "Verification metatag for Google console". what is that? 

I find it very strange, that you find result on all pages. And I don't.

I used internet explorer to open the project with.

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Allan S.
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What shall I write here?

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Claudio D.
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Hello Allan,

for the google metatag go to https://www.google.com/webmasters/ and create an account and then you will receive a metatag for the verification which will look like this one:

<meta name="google-site-verification" content="random characters code" />

You need to copy it and paste it in this section on your project and then export the project online and proceed with the verification since google will try to search for this code on the website to verify you are the author.

Many thanks!

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Allan S.
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Thanks a lot!

I am not closing this conversation yet. Want to see what happens when importing the project to X5 v. 13 and when I have done the metatag with Google. 

I will be back later.

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Allan S.
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Please answer my questions about which PHP version i need. My internet host suggest to move me to version 5.5.

Wil that be better or an even newer version??????

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Esahc ..
Esahc ..
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Allan

I don't know the answer to your question, but my many websites (all with working search) are currently using php5.4

I would imagine php5.5 would be fine.

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