[thelist] your research on search engines and the sites you work on

Ben Dyer ben_dyer at imaginuity.com
Wed Nov 6 15:04:01 CST 2002


I strongly urge you to make use of Danny Sullivan's excellent resource,
SearchEngineWatch.com

Specifically:
<http://www.searchenginewatch.com/webmasters/index.html>
<http://www.searchenginewatch.com/webmasters/features.html>

At 02:47 PM 11/6/2002, you wrote:
>to be more specific, i'm looking for references and information to back
>up my claim as to why our site sucks. there are many different reasons
>i've come up with, most of which fall into two different categories:
>Site Content, and Site Technology.
>
>[...]
>
>I'd also be interested to know among you IIS administrators, what URL
>rewriting solution you've found to be the best? The two techniques I
>know of are using a number of different ISAPI filters (some free, some
>not) or setting up your 404 page to do the rewriting/redirecting. Please
>give me your thoughts.

Thus far, I've had reasonable luck with the Spider Safe URL ISAPI filter
from CFDEV:

<http://www.cfdev.com/products/productdetail.cfm/id/1023>

Any solution like that requires a reasonable amount of monkeying around
with your code, especially on an existing site.  So, depending on your
site, it may or may not be worth your time.

--Ben




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