Daniel Carrera wrote:
Linda Worthington wrote:
Daniel you are using an image map and there is basically no content on
the page. This type of page is just not search engine friendly.
What do you suggest I do? People can't see the unicode characters
because they don't have international fonts installed on their
computers. The way to fix that is through an image map.
I wish you had pointed out this problem earlier when we first started
using the image map so people who didn't install international fonts
could see the page. It would have saved me some work.
What solution do you recommend? Will search engines also look at HTML
comments? Meta tags? Will they still search other pages inside
OOoAuthors? Like, what if this one page doesn't score high but the
others do?
I need solutions please.
I may be wrong, but my understanding is that even if you used the
original text version of the page (not an image map), a page with
essentially no keyword content is not going to give a search
engine enough information. The only keywords in either the text
or image map version are in the sentence "OOoAuthors is the
development site for OpenOffice.org documentation" and (in the
text version) the names of the languages.
I haven't been keeping up with changes in what the search engines
use for indexing, so I hope Linda or someone else reading this
knows more. Search engines used to look at meta tags a lot; I
don't know if that is still true. Having keywords in meta tags
would certainly be a good thing.
Eric says he thinks search engines will follow links from the
first page to at least the next level of pages. If that is true,
then one possibility is to write some information for the
alt.html page that contains appropriate keywords... not just a
text version of the image map (essentially just a list of
languages). That info could even be in multiple languages.
And if Eric's theory is true, then having good keywords in the
text of the index.html page of each of the language sections of
the site would be good too.
Jean
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