Re: How do I get Google to crawl a WebCat site?

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2003


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texte = >This is the link I want the search engines >to follow. When I say near-invisible, my hope is not to spam search engines, but to keep regular >users out of the area, simply because their cart will not be carried into that section of the site.There's no reason it shouldn't be.There's a fat chance that a decent bot will follow a period. Bots follow text. If anyone ever searches for a period, your site be somewhere in the search results. Otherwise, your client is S.O.L.Create a site map with text links to the pages you want to be spidered. Link to it from the home page in a text link. -- The bots will find the Site Map. -- It will show up in the SE results. -- Someone will click on it. -- Someone will use the Back button in their browser to return to it. -- Use the cart on the Site Map.Use META tags and the robots.txt file to guide the spiders.Loose the html formatting tags from inside the tags.A Summary page to display text for each items is N.G. Create one uniquely-named page per item.Use html suffixes instead of tmpl.Learn to optimize for good rankings in the SE results.Glenn------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
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  3. Re: How do I get Google to crawl a WebCat site? (marc@kaiwi.com (Marc Kaiwi) 2003)
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  5. Re: How do I get Google to crawl a WebCat site? (Dan Strong 2003)
  6. Re: How do I get Google to crawl a WebCat site? (Donovan 2003)
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  8. Re: How do I get Google to crawl a WebCat site? (Dan Strong 2003)
  9. Re: How do I get Google to crawl a WebCat site? (Glenn Busbin 2003)
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>This is the link I want the search engines >to follow. When I say near-invisible, my hope is not to spam search engines, but to keep regular >users out of the area, simply because their cart will not be carried into that section of the site.There's no reason it shouldn't be.There's a fat chance that a decent bot will follow a period. Bots follow text. If anyone ever searches for a period, your site be somewhere in the search results. Otherwise, your client is S.O.L.Create a site map with text links to the pages you want to be spidered. Link to it from the home page in a text link. -- The bots will find the Site Map. -- It will show up in the SE results. -- Someone will click on it. -- Someone will use the Back button in their browser to return to it. -- Use the cart on the Site Map.Use META tags and the robots.txt file to guide the spiders.Loose the html formatting tags from inside the tags.A Summary page to display text for each items is N.G. Create one uniquely-named page per item.Use html suffixes instead of tmpl.Learn to optimize for good rankings in the SE results.Glenn------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/ Glenn Busbin

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