[PHP] Re: Dear Lazy Web: Pseudo Randomisation Strategies on Listing Websites

2010-08-20 Thread Colin Guthrie
'Twas brillig, and Andrew Ballard at 20/08/10 15:55 did gyre and gimble: > On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 10:19 AM, Colin Guthrie wrote: >> The customer is always right -> in his own mind (even if not in his RIGHT >> mind) <- after all! > > Corrected that for you. ;-) :D -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)

[PHP] Re: Dear Lazy Web: Pseudo Randomisation Strategies on Listing Websites

2010-08-20 Thread Colin Guthrie
'Twas brillig, and Ashley Sheridan at 20/08/10 15:29 did gyre and gimble: > If you use a sitemap specific to a search engine (Google sitemap for > example) then you can specify how often a page changes, or tell it not > to index at all. This could help a little in preventing getting > penalised by

Re: [PHP] Re: Dear Lazy Web: Pseudo Randomisation Strategies on Listing Websites

2010-08-20 Thread Andrew Ballard
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 10:19 AM, Colin Guthrie wrote: > The customer is always right -> in his own mind (even if not in his RIGHT > mind) <- after all! Corrected that for you. ;-) Andrew -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] Re: Dear Lazy Web: Pseudo Randomisation Strategies on Listing Websites

2010-08-20 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Fri, 2010-08-20 at 15:19 +0100, Colin Guthrie wrote: > 'Twas brillig, and Andrew Ballard at 20/08/10 15:04 did gyre and gimble: > > On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 9:31 AM, Colin Guthrie wrote: > >> Speaking of SEO, that was one of our concerns about randomising listings > >> too. What impact do you t

[PHP] Re: Dear Lazy Web: Pseudo Randomisation Strategies on Listing Websites

2010-08-20 Thread Colin Guthrie
'Twas brillig, and Andrew Ballard at 20/08/10 15:04 did gyre and gimble: > On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 9:31 AM, Colin Guthrie wrote: >> Speaking of SEO, that was one of our concerns about randomising listings >> too. What impact do you think such randomised listings will have on SEO? >> >> Obviously i

Re: [PHP] Re: Dear Lazy Web: Pseudo Randomisation Strategies on Listing Websites

2010-08-20 Thread Andrew Ballard
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 9:31 AM, Colin Guthrie wrote: > 'Twas brillig, and Andrew Ballard at 20/08/10 14:24 did gyre and gimble: >> Would it work to return a list of some limited number of randomly >> ordered "featured" listings/items on the page, while leaving the full >> list ordered by whatever

[PHP] Re: Dear Lazy Web: Pseudo Randomisation Strategies on Listing Websites

2010-08-20 Thread Colin Guthrie
'Twas brillig, and Andrew Ballard at 20/08/10 14:24 did gyre and gimble: > Would it work to return a list of some limited number of randomly > ordered "featured" listings/items on the page, while leaving the full > list ordered by whatever natural ordering (by date, order entered, > alphabetical, e

Re: [PHP] Re: Dear Lazy Web: Pseudo Randomisation Strategies on Listing Websites

2010-08-20 Thread Andrew Ballard
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 9:05 AM, Colin Guthrie wrote: > Thanks everyone for responses. > > 'Twas brillig, and Nathan Rixham at 20/08/10 13:17 did gyre and gimble: >> if you use mysql you can seed rand() with a number to get the same >> random results out each time (for that seed number) >> >>   SE

[PHP] Re: Dear Lazy Web: Pseudo Randomisation Strategies on Listing Websites

2010-08-20 Thread Colin Guthrie
Thanks everyone for responses. 'Twas brillig, and Nathan Rixham at 20/08/10 13:17 did gyre and gimble: > if you use mysql you can seed rand() with a number to get the same > random results out each time (for that seed number) > > SELECT * from table ORDER BY RAND(234) > > Then just use limit a

[PHP] Re: Dear Lazy Web: Pseudo Randomisation Strategies on Listing Websites

2010-08-20 Thread Nathan Rixham
Colin Guthrie wrote: Hi, OK, this is really just a sounding board for a couple ideas I'm mulling over regarding a pseudo-randomisation system for some websites I'm doing. Any thoughts on the subject greatly appreciated! Back Story: We have a system that lists things. The things are broken down