[thelist] Search engine help

[Ben Henick]

On Sat, 9 Jun 2001, Martin wrote:

> I can't emphasise this enough. All the well-listed pages I've had anything
> to do with have had no effort involved in getting them there, other
> than having great content, sensibly structured.
> 
> No special meta-tags. No doorway pages other than the site's normal
> home page. No regular updating plan. No strategy to gain incoming links
> (other than being good content).

Um, me too, after a fashion.  I get search queries in my logs to which my
first response is 'WTF' but when I consider how I built the page to begin
with, it stops being such a surprise.

Links that might help:

http://www.digital-web.com/tutorials/tutorial_2001-4.shtml
http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/99/31/index1a.html


HTH
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