RE: UKNM: Frames and Search Engines

[Ally Shuttleworth]

No-one ever knows the 'exact' criteria really. Search engines are quite secretive about their algorythms, they sometimes say they rank one way...then do it completely the opposite. It's basically to stop people from being able to spam them, even worse than they do already.

We are also quite secretive about the way we rank pages, for that reason.


A good place to find out a lot about how search engines rank sites is http://www.searchenginewatch.com

The site is run by Danny Sulivan, who has provided a lot of very good information on features of the search engines.


Hope that helped anyway.


Ally Shuttleworth

Funkycat Search

http://www.funkycat.com




>A bit off tangent, but does anybody really know the exact criteria that

>search engines rates your site? Is it the most matches of your meta-keywords

>against the actual content of your pages. or is it the site that has the

>most trafic, the most pages, or what?

>

>Cheers

>Lee

>

>Spring Interactive

>

Lee_atkinsonspring [dot] com

>

>-----Original Message-----

>

From: Ally Shuttleworth [allyfunkycat [dot] com (mailto:allyfunkycat [dot] com)]

>Sent: 28 April 1999 19:08

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To: uk-netmarketingchinwag [dot] com

>Subject: Re: UKNM: Frames and Search Engines

>

>

>>As a whole we don't use frames on the sites that we build for the single

>>reason that it is very difficult to get a search engine to go through the

>>whole site properly.

>

>Someone who has a site, which is quite good, functions well etc. but is

>built using frames quite heavily.

>

>They say to you "we want to be higher in the search engines", after

>explaining to them about frames and search engines...what would you advise

>them to do?

>

>Re-build their site from scratch? Make do with the present site, and tweak

>other areas (metas etc.)?

>

>Open question.

>

>Ally Shuttleworth

>Funkycat Search

>

>[web]      http://www.funkycat.com

>

[e-mail] allyfunkycat [dot] com

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