Further to recent comments on search engine friendliness regarding using hard-coded section links rather than the auto-generated links via CGI is there a cunning way to get this done, or is it simply a matter of hardcoding this into the relevant templates (and remembering to update when you add new to-level sections)?
Interestingly this seems to be a only Google failing. We rate at or near enough the top for our stuff on MSN Search and Yahoo. They seem to have dramatically improved the relevancy of their searches while Google results are still swamped by useless link/ad farms. The site has only been live since mid-May and we may still be suffering the Google sandbox effect, but our experience would indicate MSN and Yahoo are doing a much better job than Google at the moment.
On a similar note, does the panel think it worth me recoding my Froogle feed to have links to products as ../acatalog/prodpage.html#aPRODREF, rather than the ../cgi-bin/ss000042.pl?PRODREF=XXX construct I use now? To change it would assume that Google would be making use of Froogle-submitted links.
Cheers,
simon
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Interestingly this seems to be a only Google failing. We rate at or near enough the top for our stuff on MSN Search and Yahoo. They seem to have dramatically improved the relevancy of their searches while Google results are still swamped by useless link/ad farms. The site has only been live since mid-May and we may still be suffering the Google sandbox effect, but our experience would indicate MSN and Yahoo are doing a much better job than Google at the moment.
On a similar note, does the panel think it worth me recoding my Froogle feed to have links to products as ../acatalog/prodpage.html#aPRODREF, rather than the ../cgi-bin/ss000042.pl?PRODREF=XXX construct I use now? To change it would assume that Google would be making use of Froogle-submitted links.
Cheers,
simon
Cult Pens
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