# Rails Site Indexed by Google and Other Search Engines?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-site-indexed-by-google-and-other-search-engines/144444>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [July 29, 2008, 6:38pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-site-indexed-by-google-and-other-search-engines/144444 "2008-07-29T18:38:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![jeremy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/82dd89/32.png) [@jeremy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jeremy)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2008, 6:38pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-site-indexed-by-google-and-other-search-engines/144444/1 "2008-07-29T18:38:09Z")

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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…🙂

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**Author:** ![jeremy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/82dd89/32.png) [@jeremy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jeremy)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2008, 7:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-site-indexed-by-google-and-other-search-engines/144444/2 "2008-07-29T19:56:44Z")

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On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 11:23 AM, Jeremy [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> 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?

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/](https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/)

–  
Greg D.  
[http://destiney.com/](http://destiney.com/)

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**Author:** ![jeremy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/82dd89/32.png) [@jeremy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jeremy)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2008, 9:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-site-indexed-by-google-and-other-search-engines/144444/3 "2008-07-29T21:28:07Z")

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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 🙂 Time to work some SEO magic now…thanks again! BTW,  
great site…I like the phone number script 🙂