Andrew Leonard
On Tue, 10 Sep 1996, G. Edward Johnson wrote:
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> I got this message in my mailbox and decided to see what they were doing.
>
> [CLIP]
> > What would you give to get the number 1 listing in Alta Vista, the largest
> > search engine on the Internet, owned by Yahoo!
> >
> > If you search for "URL Announcements" on Alta Vista, you will find over
> > 100,000 sites with URL and/or Announcements and we are no. 1!
> >
> > Now, no method on the Internet or on the various search engine always works,
> > but just once, will get you alot of attention and the rest is up to you.
> >
> [CLIP]
>
> Yahoo owns altavista? since digital owns altavista, the only way for
> both of these to be true was if digital owned yahoo or yahoo owned
> digital, I don't think either is true
>
> I did their suggested search and they do indeed come up number 1 in
> altavista. and number 15 in webcrawler, they didn't come up in infoseek,
> nor on the first page of hotbot.
>
> I looked at their page to see their "magic"
> <URL:http://www.novakint.com/announce.htm/>
> Basically it came down to this:
> Meta Keywords
> Meta Description
> head keywords -- I have never seen keywords as an attribute of head, do any
> robots index atribute values of all html tags?
> comment with keywords
> keywords in title tag -- this one was new to me, they had 12 title tags,
> the first and last ones being the real titles, and the other
> 10 were filled with keywords.
>
> I thought I would pass this along since I hear some search engines are
> actively downgrading "spammers" and since some engines may give more
> weight to words in the title. It seems it might be a good idea to only
> index the first title, or even no title if there are more than one.
>
> Edward.
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