RE: UKNM: Frames and Search Engines

[Bunder, Leslie]

An excellent site called Search Engine Watch at

http://www.searchenginewatch.com


Should provide some handy info.


Leslie

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>From: 	Lee Atkinson[SMTP:Lee_Atkinson@Spring.com]

>Sent: 	29 April 1999 11:27

>To: 	'uk-netmarketing@chinwag.com'

>Subject: 	RE: UKNM: Frames and Search Engines

>

>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_atkinson@spring.com

>

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

>From: Ally Shuttleworth [mailto:ally@funkycat.com]

>Sent: 28 April 1999 19:08

>To: uk-netmarketing@chinwag.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]   ally@funkycat.com 


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