[thelist] "spamminess" site check - realtymort.com

[Simon Willison]

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/