Rails Site Indexed by Google and Other Search Engines?

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Greetings,

I'm very much brand-new to Rails and have inherited a site created with Rails that I'm trying to become familiar with. I've discovered how to change my rhtml files with no problems, but have noticed that, while our site used to rank very high in search engines like Google for keywords specific to our business, we now never even show up anywhere. Can search engines index sites created with Rails? I've searched the forum history and other sites and have not found any answers. If Rails sites cannot be indexed, is there a way, or some code that can be implemented to direct search engines to index rhtml files?

Thanks for your help! I look forward to my continuing crash course in Rails...:slight_smile:

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Google has no issues indexing a Rails site. Just make sure your site is providing all the things Google wants:

https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/

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Thanks for the quick reply Greg. Google's tools are great. I am now resting peacefully knowing that my whole site is being indexed. It looks like when the new site was being created, it was built extremely UN-optimized :slight_smile: Time to work some SEO magic now...thanks again! BTW, great site...I like the phone number script :slight_smile: