Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
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.
It appears that you are at least approximately right:
http://www.google.com/technology/
Though I wish Google gave more information. But it appears that though
meta tags count a little, a page that is mostly empty will have a low
ranking.
I don't see what we can do other than choose between a simple,
language-independent layout, and a high ranking for the front page.
Perhaps we can hope that the second-level language-specific pages will
have a good ranking even if the theoretical front page does not. I would
be cool with that result.
What do you think?
Cheers,
Daniel.
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