Source groups are used during updates to crawl only content on sites that are associated with each source group. The sites that portal site administrators associate with source groups are crawled when that source group is updated. During updates, the source group property is added, and this property can be used in search scopes and advanced searches to search for content in sites that are associated with the source group.

As a portal site administrator, you assign source groups to sites in the site directory from the Manage crawls of site directory page.

1. On the Site Settings page, in the Search Settings and Indexed Content section, click Manage crawls of Site Directory.

    Note   You can also find this link on the Configure Search and Indexing page, in the Site Directory section.

2. In the Crawl status of sites list, click Approved Sites.
3. In the Crawling Behavior column, click the arrow next to the site that you want to associate with a content source group, and then click Crawl site in "content source group" on "Non_Portal_Content".
4. The site will be included in all future updates of the content source for that content source group, as well as any updates of the content source for the entire site directory or full updates of the content index for non-portal site content. Sites crawled as part of that source group will show up in searches scoped to that source group.

This topic is part of an eight-topic series.

• Introduction
• Adding Sites to the Site Directory
• Approving or Rejecting Sites for Crawling
• Configuring a Content Source Group
• Assigning Source Groups to Sites
• Creating Search Scopes for Sites in the Site Directory
• Crawling the Site Directory in a Shared Services Configuration
• Best Practices for Configuring the Site Directory in a Shared Services Configuration