rich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
1) Do you *agree* that it is preferrable that the search
engines register the URLs that 'next', 'prev', 'rand', 'goto'
and 'home' links redirect *to* rather than registering the
dynamic Ringlink URLs?
Yes this would be far preferable.
I also agree, just confused about how this is accomplished within the
Ringlink program (.htaccess file)?
http://www.seotoolset.com/seo/newsletter/0405/redirects.html
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I believe that the accurate thing to do is letting it output the
301 status code when redirecting, and I have preliminary made that
change in the development copy of Ringlink (which I'm using for
http://www.gunnar.cc/ringlink.html as well as "Ringlink Demo").
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redirect 301
webring.cc/cgi-bin/ringlink/home.pl?ringid=oceanliner;siteid=maritime
http://www.webring.cc/ringlink/oceanliners.html
HTTP Response Headers?
2) Do you agree on my 'theories', as stated in my original
post, on which measures should be taken to achieve 1)?
301 redirect is the way to go in my opinion.
Just need a few examples...
1) the anchor text is important. A link should include, between the A tags,
some
Text which is descriptive. Seach engines use this text and depend upon
It heavily to determine the theme of a web site. Thus, an anchor text of
"next" is practically useless as far as SEO is concerned. This is one of the
Reasons why rings don't much for a site's ranking in a search engine - bad
Anchor text (and no practical way to include useful text here).
You mean adding title="Quotations About life and living" to a A tag for
say for the anchor text of "next"? The Ringlink program thus entering
the title of the next ring within title="" for all A tags as someone
surfs the ring? Sounds complicated to program?
If however you replaced the anchor text "next" you'd have huge navpanels....
6) I would suspect, although I have little objective evidence, that
Your typical webring pages are simply ignored by search engines. They
May consider them spam. Actually, they are spam. In fact, the webring
Stack could very well be considered spam, if webring ever got on the
Radar at one of the big search engines. Technically speaking, it could be
Considered a type of "link farm" which is a spamming technique that will
Get a site banned from search engines forever. However, I doubt that
Webring is considered important enough to worry about.
WebRing.com is a ring farm, which surely must be worse than a mere link
farm!! ;-)!
A google search for 'link farm webring' got this interesting forum thread:
http://chris.powerfulintentions.com/forum/topic/659