In my experience I just say forget about the old search engines... well especially in this time....
Google is a major search player and we receive a lot of traffic from them on our sub pages... Altavista does it right (last generation leader)... Hotbot and AOL need retooled.. otherwise one or both of them will start using the new stuff :) Although this isn't probably acceptable to recommend, we do it and receive traffic... Know your market... Might not hold true... I would love to hear more about anyone's creation(s) to handle this and make things appear like flat files and the parser they wrote.. anyone have code to share :) ? Anyone have any of the old threads or links on this general topic readily available?? -paris -----Original Message----- From: Matt Robertson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 18:18 To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Marketing and ColdFusion web sites OK, I see it but I don't understand it ;D. What does all that do? Is this an extended meta tag info system that crawlers all use (assuming I'm looking at the right stuff). p.s. Looks like you have some CF stuff sitting outside CFOUTPUT tags. Lines 164, 170 and 171 of the html output. --------------------------------------- Matt Robertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSB Designs, Inc., www.mysecretbase.com --------------------------------------- ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- from: Peter Tilbrook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] date: Sat, 10 Nov 2001 09:59:46 +1100 Damn, strips out code. Try looking at the source code of the page at http://www.anzfa.gov.au/npc/anzfa_npc/ At 09:49 10/11/01 +1100, you wrote: >Couldn't you just use the Dublin Core method of identifying your site/page > >content? eg: > >At 09:25 9/11/01 +0000, you wrote: >A client has been speaking to someone >who offers marketing services for web >sites. They've recommended (i) >altering query strings and (ii) renaming .cfm >extensions to .html and >configuring the web server to parse .html files > >Couple of questions >spring to mind... > >1) I've used plainURL to convert the query string >to >index.cfm/SomethingID-1... is that good enough? He's recommended >continuous >slashes, like index.cfm/Something/1 (but if you do that it's a >pain not >having 2 delimiters). > >2) They said that whilst some search >engines didn't have a problem with .cfm >file extensions, 6 out of the top >15 (I think they were the numbers quoted) >did. AOL and HotBot were >mentioned. I did searches for ".cfm" and >"ColdFusion" on them and a stack >of sites running ColdFusion appeared. Is he >talking market-speak? (ie >b*****ox). > >3) The hosting is with CFXHosting on their $100pm advanced >option. Does >anyone here know if they would map .html files to ColdFusion >for a specific >folder (ie would altering the IIS mapping for .html be a >server wide >modification, or can you constrain it to a particular user >folder and below >only?) > > > >Thanks > >-- >Aidan Whitehall >Macromedia >ColdFusion Developer >Fairbanks Environmental +44 (0)1695 51775 > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
