I've been working on Search engine optimization this week and I've come to a couple of conclusions and developed a couple of questions.
First a conclusion: 1. Google does NOT index any servlet, framework class, or cgi file. If it doesn't end in "jsp" forget about it. My own framework ending in .mdlx and servlets without extensions appear to be S.O.L as well. My guess is struts and similar other frameworks are in the same boat. I determined this by downloading the google toolbar and watching the page rank for various pages. Pages with a grayed out rank are not indexed. ASP, and JSP were the only dynamic extensions I consistantly saw that were being indexed. And now a question (and possible other detriment): 2. Tomcat standalone automatically redirects (http 302) to index.html or whatever default file is otherwise specified in the welcome pages node of the server.xml file. Potentially BIG problem! Search engines HATE 302s!!!! And, if a link is provided to http://www.xyz.com whereas, requesting that page from tomcat goes to http://www.xyz.com/index.html - the link is likley not included by most search engines, and this is huge for for anyone who realizes that inbound links is significant to search engine placement. But how does this get turned off? The only advice I've gotten is to write a servlet that parse these requests and appropriately forwards the request to the right file. But again, I refer to the problem listed above - servlets to NOT get indexed on the engine that handles 80% of search traffic. For anyone out there listening, any change this auto-redirect 'feature' might have an "off" feature in future revisions? Or, does anyone know of away around that redirect issue as of current? Thanks. Neal Cabage -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
