[thelist] "spamminess" site check - realtymort.com
Simon Willison
cs1spw at bath.ac.uk
Wed Dec 10 10:59:22 CST 2003
Brian Cummiskey wrote:
>>> Here is the site:
>>> <http://www.realtymort.com/>
>
>
> just something i noticed that is definitly holding you back a little...
>
> you format your links as such: <a href="../services/">
>
> technically, thats not a page. google will index faster and show mroe
> relevence to <a href="../services/index.html"> over the above.
I'm certain that isn't the case. The web server at www.realtymort.com is
running Apache, and is configured so that accessing a directory will
load content from index.htm (using the DirectoryIndex directive). If you
load up http://www.realtymort.com/listings/ using Web Sniffer[1] (an
excellent diagnostic tool) the returned page is served with a 200 HTTP
status code - which means the page exists. Google cares not a jot about
file extensions or even whether a URL looks like a file or a directory -
as long as the content served comes back with a 200 response it's
considered a web page.
[1] http://web-sniffer.net/
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