rich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
3) There is a known spamming technique known as 301 hijacking in which
A web site an "hijack" another web sites listing in a search engine. It's
Pretty trivial to do. Search engines may begin frowning on some uses
Of 301.
Hmm.. I don't understand that one. If you had said "302 hijacking" it
would have made more sense to me.
I'll see if I can find an article or two about it.
Would appreciate that.
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. ...
A Ringlink ring with say 50 sites generates at least 50 different
variants of the list page (not to mention the 'offset' cases, which
problem was previously addressed this way:
http://arc.ringlink.org/ringlink-open/msg02866.html).
One radical change would be to include
<meta name="robots" content="noindex,follow" />
on all list pages whose URL includes a query string. To the extent the
search engines adhere to that META tag, it would result in only one
variant of the list page being indexed, and nobody could reasonably
consider a Ringlink webring spam any longer.
Comments?
/ Gunnar