Bad html??? Are you kidding? Oracle, buddy, let me tell ya...when I'm in the mood for beatiful, completely CSS-based, proper html code, ya know what I do? I view the source on QBNZ's index page to get your metas and the doctype, and ideas for coding styles. Hell, I learned how to close image tags, etc. from looking at your code! :lol:
My code is fine, but it's like trying to build a skyscraper with lego... I need to have the headers in <hX> tags else google won't give them the attention they deserve... there's plenty of other things, and of course the fact I'm not using a header.php file...
tsk tsk, dont believe me. but i have an article here that says you're site has been ignored because of the webring that you're in.
Mail google and ask them. Its their spider after all =P.
I sure hope that's a joke...
There's been some articles in our news recently about schools complaining that porn sites are using their school names as keywords to get searched by people when they look for the school, schools have bombarded google with emails asking for them to do something, but they only ever get an automated response... what makes you think someone will email me back telling me about a webring?
Could you post that article? Or a link to it?
Anyway, my site's hardly been ignored, it *may* have just suffered.
And surely the robot meta nofollow would stop it from doing this?
Yeah, that's true...Google wouldn't bother...
Oracle, have you tried contacting google yourself?
About the article, it has an online edition but access is restricted to the subscribers of print edition. Heres the exact passage:
Donât create link/banner exchange URLs and Web-rings:
Good spiders, such as Google, recognize link and banner exchange URLs as link farms and simply ignore such links. The same is the case with Web rings, where many websites of a similar interest category link to each other, creating a ring. So, creating such links, banners and Web rings will not get the spider to notice you.
Quote:Oracle, have you tried contacting google yourself?
Read my post above.
Quote:About the article, it has an online edition but access is restricted to the subscribers of print edition. Heres the exact passage:
Donât create link/banner exchange URLs and Web-rings:
Good spiders, such as Google, recognize link and banner exchange URLs as link farms and simply ignore such links. The same is the case with Web rings, where many websites of a similar interest category link to each other, creating a ring. So, creating such links, banners and Web rings will not get the spider to notice you.
Aah, it says "will not get the spider to notice you". That's a
big difference from "will reduce your pagerank if they find it". It simply does not
add to your page rank, that's what that passage says
Have you tried contacting google yourself? Those people got automated responses but your question may actually be answered, who knows :lol:
Naah, I'm not gonna bother