Re: [WebDNA] o search engines index .db files?

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2009


It keeps the original formatting.
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texte = Agree; much more relevant and easier to implement. Besides, I wouldn't want a .db searched; too much other info in there that's none of anyone's business (settings with phone #s. etc.). I have done this on some websites in the form of a description listing with a search box at the top to make it look more like a deliberate page. You could add links to a detail page. Here's what I did for one client: http://sportingspirit.com/index.html?goto=search Terry On Jul 6, 2009, at 10:51 PM, Stuart Tremain wrote: > I would build a page that displays all the data in the format that > you want the search engine to see and make sense of. The search > engine is not going to make sense of a flat data file. > > > This is what I have done for one of my clients > > http://www.opsmdirect.com.au/contact-lenses.html > > > Regards > > Stuart Tremain > IDFK Web Developments > AUSTRALIA > webdna@idfk.com.au > > On 07/07/2009, at 11:36 AM, sbraun wrote: > >> Hi all, >> I hope everyone had a safe and happy US Independence Day. >> >> I have coded an e-Newsletter and a 'one-way' Blog for my client to >> use to contact his customers. >> They each have a database of his various articles and entries. >> >> My client has hired a third-party SEO analysis of the pages that I >> built for him. >> The SEO analysis company has asked him to ask me if the .db files >> of his articles can be indexed and searchable by the major search >> engines. >> >> So I'm asking all of you what you know.... >> Can a .db file type be indexed and searched by the various search >> engines out there? >> >> Would a long path name hinder this indexing? Like >> www.MyClient.com/newsletter/files/newsletter.db >> >> Thanks for any experience. >> >> Steve Braun >> sbraun1@twcny.rr.com >> >> --------------------------------------------------------- >> This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to >> the mailing list . >> To unsubscribe, E-mail to: >> archives: http://mail.webdna.us/list/talk@webdna.us >> old archives: http://dev.webdna.us/TalkListArchive/ > > --------------------------------------------------------- > This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > the mailing list . > To unsubscribe, E-mail to: > archives: http://mail.webdna.us/list/talk@webdna.us > old archives: http://dev.webdna.us/TalkListArchive/ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: [WebDNA] o search engines index .db files? (Stuart Tremain 2009)
  2. Re: [WebDNA] o search engines index .db files? (sbraun 2009)
  3. Re: [WebDNA] o search engines index .db files? ("Dan Strong" 2009)
  4. Re: [WebDNA] o search engines index .db files? (Terry Wilson 2009)
  5. Re: [WebDNA] o search engines index .db files? (Donovan Brooke 2009)
  6. Re: [WebDNA] o search engines index .db files? (Stuart Tremain 2009)
  7. [WebDNA] o search engines index .db files? (sbraun 2009)
Agree; much more relevant and easier to implement. Besides, I wouldn't want a .db searched; too much other info in there that's none of anyone's business (settings with phone #s. etc.). I have done this on some websites in the form of a description listing with a search box at the top to make it look more like a deliberate page. You could add links to a detail page. Here's what I did for one client: http://sportingspirit.com/index.html?goto=search Terry On Jul 6, 2009, at 10:51 PM, Stuart Tremain wrote: > I would build a page that displays all the data in the format that > you want the search engine to see and make sense of. The search > engine is not going to make sense of a flat data file. > > > This is what I have done for one of my clients > > http://www.opsmdirect.com.au/contact-lenses.html > > > Regards > > Stuart Tremain > IDFK Web Developments > AUSTRALIA > webdna@idfk.com.au > > On 07/07/2009, at 11:36 AM, sbraun wrote: > >> Hi all, >> I hope everyone had a safe and happy US Independence Day. >> >> I have coded an e-Newsletter and a 'one-way' Blog for my client to >> use to contact his customers. >> They each have a database of his various articles and entries. >> >> My client has hired a third-party SEO analysis of the pages that I >> built for him. >> The SEO analysis company has asked him to ask me if the .db files >> of his articles can be indexed and searchable by the major search >> engines. >> >> So I'm asking all of you what you know.... >> Can a .db file type be indexed and searched by the various search >> engines out there? >> >> Would a long path name hinder this indexing? Like >> www.MyClient.com/newsletter/files/newsletter.db >> >> Thanks for any experience. >> >> Steve Braun >> sbraun1@twcny.rr.com >> >> --------------------------------------------------------- >> This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to >> the mailing list . >> To unsubscribe, E-mail to: >> archives: http://mail.webdna.us/list/talk@webdna.us >> old archives: http://dev.webdna.us/TalkListArchive/ > > --------------------------------------------------------- > This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > the mailing list . > To unsubscribe, E-mail to: > archives: http://mail.webdna.us/list/talk@webdna.us > old archives: http://dev.webdna.us/TalkListArchive/ Terry Wilson

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