RE: Search engine question

2005-04-04 Thread Ken Ferguson
s. --Ferg -Original Message- From: Rick Faircloth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 01, 2005 12:14 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Search engine question I'm sure the domain names play into the rankings, but they can be used deceptively so easily, I don't know how much weight th

RE: Search engine question

2005-04-01 Thread Rick Faircloth
day, April 01, 2005 1:51 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Search engine question Hrm, what about wrapping chunks of Text inside divs that have visible = false? Has anyone applied that technique aswell (now you all have be curious again on SOE) On Apr 1, 2005 12:25 PM, Rick Faircloth <[EMAIL PROT

RE: Search engine question

2005-04-01 Thread Rick Faircloth
ubject: Re: Search engine question Search engines try to keep their methodologies close to the vest, but I have read some past talk about how search engines weight the relevant words in the domain name itself. That makes sense simply because one needs to keep the domain name within the realm of relev

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2005-03-31 Thread Nick Baker
Search engines try to keep their methodologies close to the vest, but I have read some past talk about how search engines weight the relevant words in the domain name itself. That makes sense simply because one needs to keep the domain name within the realm of relevancy. Ken mentioned early on

Re: Search engine question

2005-03-31 Thread Nick Baker
the same results. > > > > But I wouldn't want a page like that on the site...it would appear to the > > viewer that the page had no content...that's as bad as some of the > > gateway pages I've seen. The copy is terrible for the human visitor, > > but g

Re: Search engine question

2005-03-31 Thread Scott Barnes
tor, > but great for the bot... > > Rick > > -Original Message- > From: Scott Barnes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 8:44 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: Search engine question > > Correct me if i'm wrong and chances are it may be

RE: Search engine question

2005-03-31 Thread Rick Faircloth
ge- From: Scott Barnes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 8:44 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Search engine question Correct me if i'm wrong and chances are it may be the case, but i think i remember reading that google doesn't base its ranking on index page alone. It

Re: Search engine question

2005-03-31 Thread dave
Correct, but usually the other pages have a better amount of content available where a lot of home pages don't. From: Scott Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 8:48 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Search engine question Co

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2005-03-31 Thread Bryan Stevenson
yep..but the index page is the jump off point...and the other internal pages must be relevant to the index page etcso it's a pretty important part of the puzzle ;-) Bryan Stevenson B.Comm. VP & Director of E-Commerce Development Electric Edge Systems Group Inc. phone: 250.480.0642 fax: 250.4

Re: Search engine question

2005-03-31 Thread Scott Barnes
approach may not seem to make a lot of sense to a viewer > who is unaware of why these variations would be on a page, which is to > appeal to bots, I don't see how it would be considered unethical to include > those variations on site map. > > Any thoughts on this? > >

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2005-03-31 Thread Rick Faircloth
Rick -Original Message- From: Scott Barnes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 6:08 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Search engine question This concerns me the most, you can trick the bots until you have a total monopoly on keywords. Yet, if someone reports you to goog

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2005-03-31 Thread dave
to roam in the rules. From: "Bryan Stevenson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 6:31 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Search engine question >I think what you are saying is that if the user agent is a bot then you >just serve them up a specific content page

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2005-03-31 Thread Bryan Stevenson
>I think what you are saying is that if the user agent is a bot then you >just serve them up a specific content page instead of the home page. Not a seperate page...just bot specific content that mirrors the "real" content (and yes..Will's site is another matter). and if it's a bot you don'

Re: Search engine question

2005-03-31 Thread dave
, 2005 6:19 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Search engine question Not sure who that wa aimed at Scott...but if you were referring to my user agent suggestion: > This concerns me the most, you can trick the bots until you have a > total monopoly on keywords. Yet, if someone reports you to google

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2005-03-31 Thread dave
f the site like the bots want. From: Scott Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 6:12 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Search engine question This concerns me the most, you can trick the bots until you have a total monopoly on keywords. Y

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2005-03-31 Thread Bryan Stevenson
Not sure who that wa aimed at Scott...but if you were referring to my user agent suggestion: > This concerns me the most, you can trick the bots until you have a > total monopoly on keywords. Yet, if someone reports you to google (and > it happens) for hijacking traffic (only have to look at your

Re: Search engine question

2005-03-31 Thread Scott Barnes
> the engines but they cant afford to pay you to do it better or to have a pro > do it, so this is what I do for them and it seems to work fairly well:) > > > From: "Bryan Stevenson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday

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2005-03-31 Thread dave
ms to work fairly well:) From: "Bryan Stevenson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 5:47 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Search engine question Ah...well there are other easier ways of having bot content to indexjust supp

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2005-03-31 Thread Bryan Stevenson
Ah...well there are other easier ways of having bot content to indexjust supply custom content based on user_agentas long as that content is not different from what's IN the Flash (i.e. not spamming the bots with extra content etc.)...then you can defend your use of this technique..

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2005-03-31 Thread dave
alk Subject: RE: Search engine question I think what's happening here is (not knowing that much about how bots read Flash) that Dave is saying his .swf redirect method is not penalized by bots like redirects using other methods...right Dave? Rick -Original Message- From: Bryan Ste

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2005-03-31 Thread dave
em and use what freedom they give you to be creative :) From: "Bryan Stevenson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 5:32 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Search engine question I missed the little SWF trick that's being talke

RE: Search engine question

2005-03-31 Thread Rick Faircloth
Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 5:28 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Search engine question I missed the little SWF trick that's being talked aboutbut I thought I saw something about redirects...which can kill your SEO...so I thought I'd double check and make sue this trick doesn't involve r

Re: Search engine question

2005-03-31 Thread Bryan Stevenson
I missed the little SWF trick that's being talked aboutbut I thought I saw something about redirects...which can kill your SEO...so I thought I'd double check and make sue this trick doesn't involve redirects on the home page of site?? Bryan Stevenson B.Comm. VP & Director of E-Commerce De

RE: Search engine question

2005-03-31 Thread Rick Faircloth
update and try again...this could be a great boon for my SEO business... Rick -Original Message- From: dave [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 5:10 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Search engine question I'll try and fix wills then post the code with some better emb

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2005-03-31 Thread dave
> Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 5:07 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Search engine question Thanks, Dave...didn't mean to hi-jack the thread... Rick -Original Message- From: dave [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 4:30 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Search engi

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2005-03-31 Thread Rick Faircloth
Thanks, Dave...didn't mean to hi-jack the thread... Rick -Original Message- From: dave [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 4:30 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Search engine question oh sorry lol I'll send that to you. I'll remake it in an earlier vers

Re: Search engine question

2005-03-31 Thread Will Tomlinson
Well I did it, but it isn't quite fast enough. The swf is only 53 byes. Sits for a second, but that's too long. I COULD place some text like: entering winston court sports.com h am I doing somethin wrong? Thanks, Will ~~

RE: Search engine question

2005-03-31 Thread dave
Message- From: dave [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 3:37 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Search engine question Sure 1. open up flash 2. make a new movie and size it 1x1 pixels 3. in the actionscript enter this mass of coding beauty //redirect to home page is client has pr

RE: Search engine question

2005-03-31 Thread dave
I agree with whomever stated that it was good to have other domain name. My answer was directed towards will's site only, sorry I should have noted that. While having a few other domain that are PROPERLY formated for placement is a good thing just having other domain names with pointers to th

RE: Search engine question

2005-03-31 Thread Rick Faircloth
ECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 3:37 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Search engine question Sure 1. open up flash 2. make a new movie and size it 1x1 pixels 3. in the actionscript enter this mass of coding beauty //redirect to home page is client has proper version of flash getURL ("mai

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2005-03-31 Thread dave
h player 7. If you need that I have a great flash embed script that both validates and shows a nice message if its not there. dave From: "Rick Faircloth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 7:32 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Se

RE: Search engine question

2005-03-31 Thread Ken Ferguson
lf though; make sure that the bulk of your administration can be handled in one place... Also, some of my sites only sell a specific subset of our products. --Ferg -Original Message- From: dave [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 10:02 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: re: Search

RE: Search engine question

2005-03-31 Thread Rick Faircloth
ouncements, then it's not spamming the visitor. I agree with all your other points... Rick -Original Message- From: Scott Barnes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 7:46 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Search engine question People linking to your site also help

Re: Search engine question

2005-03-31 Thread Scott Barnes
ently... > > Rick > > -----Original Message- > From: Dave [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 11:42 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: Search engine question > > Do you like that nickname? haha > > Ok too start with you don't have any

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2005-03-31 Thread Rick Faircloth
them and keep them optimized with keywords and phrases that need to be repeated frequently... Rick -Original Message- From: Dave [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 11:42 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Search engine question Do you like that nickname? haha Ok too start

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2005-03-30 Thread dave
page thats been formated for content only. www.denveralumnaegpb.org has that. Basically it's a win win, without really cheating :) From: Will Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 11:25 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re:

Re: Search engine question

2005-03-30 Thread Will Tomlinson
> What's the url wilbergini? abracadabra! www.winstoncourtsports.com > I haven't read this yet but i threw it up 4 ya, http://www.jamwerx. > com/HowGoogleWorks.swf Preeesh! This looks like good info! Will ~| Logware (www.logw

re: Search engine question

2005-03-30 Thread dave
I haven't read this yet but i threw it up 4 ya, http://www.jamwerx.com/HowGoogleWorks.swf From: Will Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 9:38 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Search engine question Ok, don't pummel me

Search engine question

2005-03-30 Thread Will Tomlinson
Ok, don't pummel me for askin this one. I just know some of you will have the answer. On my volleyball apparel site, the client is asking about added domain names to help attract more people. If I were to use something volleyball-shorts.com as a domain name, would that add relevance to the sit

Re: CSS and "Cloaking" Search Engine question...

2004-03-31 Thread Ray Champagne
You definitely get the award for most creative (yet geeky - in a cool way) signature block. Ray http://www.crystalvision.org At 10:50 AM 3/31/2004, Les Mizzell wrote: >  > I would also suggest taking a look at this URI. >  > http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=ScreenreaderVisibility > > >Hmm...

Re: CSS and "Cloaking" Search Engine question...

2004-03-31 Thread Les Mizzell
> I would also suggest taking a look at this URI. > http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=ScreenreaderVisibility Hmm...which makes "Designing CSS Web Pages" by Christopher Schmitt slightly wrong, don't it? OhhIt's in Zeldman's book as well... -- Les Mizzell --- T

RE: CSS and "Cloaking" Search Engine question...

2004-03-31 Thread Sandy Clark
n, Fusebox, Accessibility and CSS   _   From: Les Mizzell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 11:35 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: OT: CSS and "Cloaking" Search Engine question... Just out of curiosity: Several of the CSS Books I'm studying hard advocate using &

RE: CSS and "Cloaking" Search Engine question...

2004-03-31 Thread Dowdell, Jason G
March 30, 2004 11:35 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: OT: CSS and "Cloaking" Search Engine question... Just out of curiosity: Several of the CSS Books I'm studying hard advocate using "page navigation" to help with accessibility: CSS: #pagenav {    display:none; } On the Page:

OT: CSS and "Cloaking" Search Engine question...

2004-03-30 Thread Les Mizzell
Just out of curiosity: Several of the CSS Books I'm studying hard advocate using "page navigation" to help with accessibility: CSS: #pagenav {    display:none; } On the Page:       links here    links here    This is certainly a good thing and I've started using it myself on a few sites I'm