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Excellent advice James. > -----Original Message----- > From: James Silva [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 3:39 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [WSG] Search Engines > > > 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/ > ***************************************************** > ***************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ *****************************************************
