> Yes, I'll be "Others" today <g> Another day laughing is gone... Thank you Brent Since "Others" is plural... > Finally, as George observes, using splash screens means that some major > search engines will miss all the important stuff on your site, since > they use the first few paragraphs of text on a site as their principal > source of indexing info. So if -- as is very common -- your splash > screen is just a snappy graphic or two, with the real meat elsewhere, > there's nothing for the spider to index. Some search engine really DON'T like META refresh (Infoseek?? and other). They recognize it as spam expecially if you set refresh frequency high. The spam technique is simple. Build up a trap page full of keywords as your splash screen and the work is done. Of course if you have a good method to recognize different search engine (spiders IP) you could present different pages to different search engine avoiding "the search engine revenge". But this technique is also considered spam... but it is more difficulto to be recognized automatically. If some "Others" want to contribute to my knowledge of search engine I'll be VERY happy :-)))))) -------------------------------------------------- Ivan Sergio Borgonovo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Webmaster Gorilla Bookstore http://www.gorilla.it Tel. +39 2 3311105/34530455 Fax. +39 2 34531591 Via Mac Mahon 9, Milano, Italy -------------------------------------------------- ____________________________________________________________________ -------------------------------------------------------------------- Join The Web Consultants Association : Register on our web site Now Web Consultants Web Site : http://just4u.com/webconsultants If you lose the instructions All subscription/unsubscribing can be done directly from our website for all our lists. ---------------------------------------------------------------------
