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Re: LUGNET found on serach engine...
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lugnet.admin.general
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Tue, 13 Nov 2001 01:51:35 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Matthew Gerber writes:
> In lugnet.admin.general, Jon Kozan writes:
> > Perhaps this isn't anything new, but I was a bit surprisd to see a LUGNET
> > member's page pop up on a Google internet search.
> > I've never seen that happen before, and somehow thought LUGNET was immune...
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> > Was I confused?
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> Google lists pages in order of the amount of links made to them from other
> sites...i.e. if your page is linked to by many other sites, your page will
> be higher in the list. A good example would be to search for "Shiri
> Dori"...her acronym guide (a LUGNET member page) will come up in the first 5
> or so results, as many folks have links to it on their sites.
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> Why wouldn't that be true for LUGNET member pages? Or LUGNET pages in general?
Links within LUGNET pages actually call jump.cgi, this may affect the ability
of search bots to count the pages they link to. That shouldn't affect links
within non-LUGNET pages pointing to LUGNET pages, though.
I'm not sure how LUGNET handles search bots.
ROSCO
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| (...) Google lists pages in order of the amount of links made to them from other sites...i.e. if your page is linked to by many other sites, your page will be higher in the list. A good example would be to search for "Shiri Dori"...her acronym guide (...) (23 years ago, 10-Nov-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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