New SEO methoud really work?
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New SEO methoud really work?
Alright, I didn't know were exactly to place this post; I didn't think it would hurt to place it here.
Doing some research on trying to make my re-write of my website contain more SEO I have stumbled across a methoud I never heard of a Robot Exclusion Profile. I found an example of a site that uses the new profiling and ran it through W3C and it clams it valid XHTML 1.0 and once I change one simple thing, could be XHTML 1.1 valid; both cases were ran in strict mode.
What do you think about it? My question, beside does it really work, is how do robots know what the profiles mean? Are they preset or do you make up your own? If they are present how do you find them? Is there a global standard or do you need to profile for all search engines?
I don't know but it sounds like it's something I'd look into.
Doing some research on trying to make my re-write of my website contain more SEO I have stumbled across a methoud I never heard of a Robot Exclusion Profile. I found an example of a site that uses the new profiling and ran it through W3C and it clams it valid XHTML 1.0 and once I change one simple thing, could be XHTML 1.1 valid; both cases were ran in strict mode.
What do you think about it? My question, beside does it really work, is how do robots know what the profiles mean? Are they preset or do you make up your own? If they are present how do you find them? Is there a global standard or do you need to profile for all search engines?
I don't know but it sounds like it's something I'd look into.
What exactly do you mean by
I swiftly read through the page you linked to, but question it's use. What search engines have been doing, and will keep trying to do, is to know exactly what a visitor of a page gets to see and what users are looking for. Websites which use techniques to show people other content then a search engine are penalized by the search engines. At least, that's what's supposed to happen. So, anything that seperates what SE and visitors see is not in line with the policy of SE.
But even if it is legal, such a technique will be misused quickly. For example the example on the page:
So if this microformat would work, I could show all kinds of nasty content to my visitors, without the search engines indexing it?
I've never heard about this microformat before, so I don't even know if it is implied anywhere and if search engines do anything with it.
If you want good rankings in the search engines there's only one thing you should do: make lots and lots of very very interesting content (plain text/html) and make sure many people know about it so they start linking to you.
I think that you would have to look at other things if you want to optimise your pages for SE, if that's what you mean.on trying to make my re-write of my website contain more SEO
I swiftly read through the page you linked to, but question it's use. What search engines have been doing, and will keep trying to do, is to know exactly what a visitor of a page gets to see and what users are looking for. Websites which use techniques to show people other content then a search engine are penalized by the search engines. At least, that's what's supposed to happen. So, anything that seperates what SE and visitors see is not in line with the policy of SE.
But even if it is legal, such a technique will be misused quickly. For example the example on the page:
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<p>This page is not about <span class=”robots-noindex”>pornography</span>.</p>I've never heard about this microformat before, so I don't even know if it is implied anywhere and if search engines do anything with it.
If you want good rankings in the search engines there's only one thing you should do: make lots and lots of very very interesting content (plain text/html) and make sure many people know about it so they start linking to you.
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This is actually frowned upon. Search engines will often penalize you for using this blackhat tactic. I believe the term is "cloaking".. give it a googleDaveTheAve wrote:To tell ya the truth the only thing that I'm currently looking for is a way to stop a crawler from indexing CERTAIN links. For example, download URLs and my spambot-honeypot; everything else SHOULD be indexed.
Power to the webmasters (and their public)... I've stopped caring about search-engines...Jcart wrote:This is actually frowned upon. Search engines will often penalize you for using this blackhat tactic. I believe the term is "cloaking".. give it a googleDaveTheAve wrote:To tell ya the truth the only thing that I'm currently looking for is a way to stop a crawler from indexing CERTAIN links. For example, download URLs and my spambot-honeypot; everything else SHOULD be indexed.
And I would definitely take some time to research the information Google has put up for webmasters http://www.google.com/webmasters/
There's loads of information and useful tools. If you have a Google account you can check how your site is doing (in Google), which pages are being indexed, and when, what potential problems there are, etc etc. Combine that with Google analytics for your site and you'll have a good overview of how your site is doing.
Or you could just put up a clean, well-coded site with loads of interesting content and only worry about adding more content
There's loads of information and useful tools. If you have a Google account you can check how your site is doing (in Google), which pages are being indexed, and when, what potential problems there are, etc etc. Combine that with Google analytics for your site and you'll have a good overview of how your site is doing.
Or you could just put up a clean, well-coded site with loads of interesting content and only worry about adding more content
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Say, I think you're on to something!matthijs wrote:Or you could just put up a clean, well-coded site with loads of interesting content and only worry about adding more content
My clients NEVER understand this principle... and it's difficult to tell them nicely that a generic name and no valuable content just isn't notable... period.
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Kieran