Hi Colm, What exactly do you mean by "old search engine hacks"?
These days search usually means "Google". The guys at Google are doing their best to lower ranking (and in some cases remove all together) any/all sites using suspect tatics to gain search results. Stuff that will help with search result ranking: - Clean, VALID code (strip out formatting to your CSS file wherever possible) - Small to medium sized pages (google has some arbitrary limit on how much content per page it will index) - dont hide content (if possible) - dont put content in javascript - avoid nasty UUID based query string values - <TITLE>'s!!! Make sure every page is unique - Structure your documents properly. i.e. use Hx tags if your presenting a heading - lots of links comming in and going out - most importantly, lots of content, regularly updated. Google will learn how often your site changes and index accordingly. Also, more people will link to you if you have good content (i.e. O'matic series is Google gold). cheers, ____________________________ James Silva Web Production Gruden Pty Ltd Tel: +61 02 9956 6388 Fax: +61 02 9956 8433 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.gruden.com ____________________________ > Hi all, > > I am in the process of revamping a site to being standards > compliant. One of > the issues I wish to address is removing all the old search > engine hacks and > implementing more standards based ways of raising the profile of the site. > > The site is a large corporate served with XHTML / CSS / XML(+some cgi) > > I dont know if this is OT, but I imagine many of you may have come across > this problem before. > > Any advice / sites that may be of use? > > Cheers, > Colm > ***************************************************** > The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ > ***************************************************** > ***************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ *****************************************************
