Re: search engine optimization question

On Thu, 29 Sep 2005 07:54:18 +0200, Bob Bedford wrote:

>I've a question about generating pages for search engines.
>
>It's possible to detect a bot coming on a website and then show a complete
>other page for it ?
>My main page is mainly graphic, with a form. Quite no text at all. I would
>preffer instead to show a site description to bots ! Not spamming at all,
>just trying to tell to the bots that my site is not what people see and just
>a search engine, but a real site with real potential.
>
>How to do so ?

Dunno! But sounds like a good idea though!

I thought search engines don't *only* search "home" pages though ...
providing there are decent links to further pages that they can follow
easily - ie. not buried under a Flash navigation bar or something.

I've often wondered about server redirection (is that the right term?)
- as sometimes my menus are generated from a database/back-end admin
system, where there are no "static" links to follow. But it all looked
pretty complicated - and (possibly) too dependent on server
configuration that I'd have no control over.

Adam.
.

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