[thelist] Search Engine Placement

[Timothy J. Luoma]

>> I built a sample menu for a client.  I wanted to show it wrapping over
>> content so I grabbed a couple articles off of news.com to put in the 
>> body of
>> the page.  Somehow, google managed to index the page.  Probably through
>> evolt:
>>
>> http://lists.evolt.org/archive/Week-of-Mon-20030224/135480.html
>>
>> I still get hits on this page daily even though it's non-existent and 
>> the
>> HTML markup was pretty shabby.  Basically, the content was good 
>> (because I
>> lifted it) and it got a good link from evolt from this list's archives.

Send a permanent redirect (.htaccess) to your website main page.

If you are getting hits, they might as well end up somewhere.

TjL


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