[thelist] Re: Search Engines

[Shirley Kaiser, SKDesigns]

At 04:19 AM 11/26/2001, Øyvind Vestavik wrote:
>or you can
>insert the Codfish-word into your text many times. A sneaky way to do this
>is to insert  "codfish" any number of times using extremelig small fonts
>and the same font colour as your page background so that it won't be
>vivible to the user, but the robot will give it a high ranking on searches
>on "codfish". There is some information on how to "attract the attention"
>of spiders on the homepages of individual search-engines (no-one obey the
>same rules)  or you can check out http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/robots.html

One must be careful about doing things like this, though, as many of the 
search engines spiders have already caught on to this trick, and if they 
find your site guilty of "spamming" the search engines they'll end up 
banning your site(s). So I personally wouldn't recommend doing things like 
that. There are plenty of other ways to help your rankings without taking 
that kind of risk.

Some great sources of info about the above and other related issues can be 
found at http://www.searchenginewatch.com/ and 
http://www.rankwrite.com/  and lots of tutorials and more info at 
WebsiteTips.com's search engine section: http://www.websitetips.com/search/

It's also important to keep in mind, too, as I'm sure you know, is that 
good rankings at search engines are just one avenue of getting visitors to 
your sites.

Warmly,
Shirley

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