Re: send email via AS400

Google allows you to add your site to be visited on a regular basis by their web crawler, which drills down to index all of the content at that URL. I found out the hard way that you need to create a file named robots.txt in your root directory that contains paths to be excluded from the search. The crawler can really play hell with cgi programs.

Brad Stone wrote:

Google does ignore meta keywords if I remember, and I
believe they also state that if they are "abused" they will
omit your site from their search criteria.

Instead, they would like you to use their Google Adwords.
:) I've found that to be QUITE a nice little scam for
them.
Brad
www.bvstools.com

On Tue, 15 May 2007 14:54:47 -0500
Scott Klement <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Not sure what the current state of meta keywords is. I
know that years ago, back before Google dominated the search engine
world, everyone put meta keywords in their HTML documents so that the search
engines of the time (Altavista, WebCrawler, HotBot, Lycos, etc) would
find their pages.

Then people started doing studies on which keywords were
more frequently searched for so you knew what was most effective to put
in your meta tags.

Then "web marketing firms" would sell software that
automatically put the most popular keywords into your meta tags, even if
they had nothing to do with your site. This caused a lot of really bad
search results to show up in the search engines.

Then, someone (might've been Google) declared that they
were going to ignore meta keywords to provide more accurate results.
I have no idea if they still do that or not...

I know that part of Google's search criteria is based on
the age of the page. So an article from 1998 might not be in Google's
index because it's so old.

This is all conjecture. I don't know anything about how
System iNetwork markets to search engines, etc. I'm not involved with
that part of things. Maybe if Wayne Madden is paying attention to
this thread, he can give a better answer...

rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

Tried to google on +leland +sndemail. I'm a little raw

with html but

isn't there some keywords you can bury in a page to

help google find you?

Rob Berendt

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