[ic] Search engines summary?

Steve Graham interchange-users@icdevgroup.org
Wed Sep 25 10:12:02 2002


>some search engines:
>
>   1 don't follow pages with cgi-bin in the url
>   2 don't follow pages with cgi args, eg. ?id=
>   3 don't look at meta tags (eg. google), but some do.
>   4 look at how many times your site is linked to from the rest of the
>world.
>   5 make you pay through the nose just for them to consider your site.
>
>1 can be sorted with the rewrite, or even just a renamed or aliased 
>cgi-bin.
>There was a recent discussion on 2. There was a discussion a while back
>about adding an editable meta header section to the ic templating system
>allowing per page meta tags for 3.
>
>On a more general note, search engines like page titles, and content. Make
>sure these are relevant or you will never achieve good rankings.
>
>However, when you are battling for the top spot in aggressively promoted
>keywords then you may have to employ additional techniques.
>
>good luck,
>
>Jonathan
>Webmaint.

Hello,
re: IC 4.8.6

I've noticed we have been seeing orders with a referring url from 
searchhippo - seems they have indexed our new IC site quite well.
I checked their indexing on our IC site, and they are using the session 
variable as part of their result.
What happens when IC receives a request for a page with a session variable 
that has been expired - should this even be a concern?

Thanks,
Steve

IC site: http://www.mrlock.com/


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