Thanks for all the info Rudy. And absolutely, that would require a fair bit of work :-)
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of rudy Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 1:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [CFTALKTor] Searching... for answers > I am currently looking at getting our website listed better in the > search engines. My site is using the fusebox methodology so > every page gets piped through index.cfm and there are a lot of > URL variables. Does anyone know if my site will get crawled > properly by the visiting spiders? hi michel yes, you'll be okay in google can't speak for other search engines, but don't sweat it you could [gasp] take the unusual step of not having query strings in your urls, but hey, that would require a fair bit of work at this point, i'm guessing -- it involves using custom 404 logic, i think, and i have nfi (no idea) how compatible that is with fusebox architectures anyhow, the most important thing is who links to you > Also, does anyone have any tips for increasing our ranking? yes, there are only two rules -- 1. have good content 2. don't try to trick the search engines included in #2 is, sadly, the advice not to spend too much time tweaking your keywords and description meta tags, because search engines are (led by google) headed in the direction of totally ignoring them -- thanks to years of meta tag spamming by so-called search engine specialists grandaddy search reference site is danny sullivan's http://searchenginewatch.com/ i've seen good articles on http://www.promotionbase.com/ rudy http://rudy.ca/ - You are subscribed to the CFUGToronto CFTALK ListSRV. This message has been posted by: "rudy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To Unsubscribe, Please Visit and Login to http://www.CFUGToronto.org/ Manager: Kevin Towes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.CFUGToronto.org/ This System has been donated by Infopreneur, Inc. (http://www.infopreneur.net) - You are subscribed to the CFUGToronto CFTALK ListSRV. This message has been posted by: Michel Rouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To Unsubscribe, Please Visit and Login to http://www.CFUGToronto.org/ Manager: Kevin Towes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.CFUGToronto.org/ This System has been donated by Infopreneur, Inc. (http://www.infopreneur.net)
