Re: Search Engine questions ...
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It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 44794
interpreted = N
texte = >In a related issue, I would like to have my home page as clean as possible, WITHOUT a lot of text placed there specifically for the search engines. This suggests that I would need a different home page for my human visitors than the home page the search engines land on ...Not necessarily... FWIW, check out my homepage and view source: http://www.StrongGraphicDesign.com. I was concerned that since my homepage was using image maps as navigation, that the links might not be honored by SE's (well, Google anyway -- let's face it. It's the only one that matters. Get listed there, you're eventually in everywhere else.) ... I digress...so anyway, I called 1x1 pixel, transparent gifs to my index.html page and had them link to my other main pages as an alternate route for spiders.Don't know if that technique is frowned upon, but I am listed in SE's just as I would expect. Most importantly though, I built a *SITE MAP* ( http://www.StrongGraphicDesign.com/sitemap.html ), linked to it from my homepage (with a transparent .gif) and submitted sitemap.html directly to google: http://www.google.com/addurl.htmlor for you adventurous folks: http://www.google.com/addurl?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.YOUR_DOMAIN.com&dq=&submit=Add+URLThe Kiwis and yes, I believe, Peacock, are all pretty damn good at this, so take my advice after theirs.-Dan ------------------------------------------- http://www.StrongGraphicDesign.com (208) 319-0137 | Toll-free p/f 877-561-1656 Private email: art@StrongGraphicDesign.com------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list
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>In a related issue, I would like to have my home page as clean as possible, WITHOUT a lot of text placed there specifically for the search engines. This suggests that I would need a different home page for my human visitors than the home page the search engines land on ...Not necessarily... FWIW, check out my homepage and view source: http://www.StrongGraphicDesign.com. I was concerned that since my homepage was using image maps as navigation, that the links might not be honored by SE's (well, Google anyway -- let's face it. It's the only one that matters. Get listed there, you're eventually in everywhere else.) ... I digress...so anyway, I called 1x1 pixel, transparent gifs to my index.html page and had them link to my other main pages as an alternate route for spiders.Don't know if that technique is frowned upon, but I am listed in SE's just as I would expect. Most importantly though, I built a *SITE MAP* ( http://www.StrongGraphicDesign.com/sitemap.html ), linked to it from my homepage (with a transparent .gif) and submitted sitemap.html directly to google: http://www.google.com/addurl.htmlor for you adventurous folks: http://www.google.com/addurl?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.YOUR_DOMAIN.com&dq=&submit=Add+URLThe Kiwis and yes, I believe, Peacock, are all pretty damn good at this, so take my advice after theirs.-Dan ------------------------------------------- http://www.StrongGraphicDesign.com (208) 319-0137 | Toll-free p/f 877-561-1656 Private email: art@StrongGraphicDesign.com------------------------------------------------------------- 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://search.smithmicro.com/
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