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I am not too sure...was this meant for me?

Where is "simple-biz"?

If that was for me...I can clarify. Else...simple-biz will answer I guess.

Regards
WC

He hasn't been back here in quite some time.

Ok.
Thanks for the information.
So, I understand that it was indeed meant for "simple-biz".
:-|

Regards
WC

Great advice.

Great advice indeed. I just created a semi-professional website that i'm still in the process of fleshing out, for the company I work for. I'm going to follow all of these listed tips and tricks and see if I can't get my site to show up on Google.

It has been up and submitted to Googles URL directory for over 2-3 months now, however I am here revamping the sight look, adding/modifying the layout, etc.

Wish me luck!

Dear Image,

You got something seriously wrong about anything that you did as you said you DID. Try to elaborate more on your problem and how/when you did it to get such ZERO results?

thanks,

The robot text file is ONLY needed to EXCLUDE not to include.

? is this a meta tag?

Yes, something like:

<META NAME="robots" CONTENT="noindex,nofollow">

Yes - but I wouldn't use it unless you want search engines to "not index your page" and "not follow any links on that page"! ;)

For indexing and following links bots do that whether you tell them or not.

What other use is there for it? Might opt for a hybrid index,nofollow or v.v.
I sometimes add a ,noarchive but as a robots.txt equivalent (which DISallows bots) this is roughly the same on a page-by-page basis...

first of all, thanks for all the information here i am new to the thread and are finding it facinaiting!

Is there any benifit of "not indexing" folders of no importance to robots? - less to index - more relevancy in what indexed or anything like that?

also....
what are "backlinks" i keep reading they are important, and when asking about parameters on links to check which of the same link is clicked on more
(for example on a picture link: "page.asp?param1=1" and then on the text link beneth "page.asp?param1=2") i keep on hearing about maybe damaging the backlink? (thanks wit for your help)

Backlinks are links from another page to yours. G keeps track of all the links pointing to your page. Every link adds to the value of yours. But if the link's url is modified in a way (e.g. a parameter added), G might think it's another url alltogether, thus not counting it as one of your "backlinks".

Furthermore, I think it would be wise to disallow spidering of any non-related, non-optimised or otherwise unuseful pages. So if you have a directory full of stuff like that (javascripts, error pages, etc.), keep the bots out of it, if only to preserve bandwidth for your REAL visitors...

as i intend to use the additional params only in my web site (internal links) does this still have the same effect? and if so, if i understand correctly what will happen is infact G will thing that i have two pages
1) page.asp
2) page.asp?param1=x
(does param value effect anything that it changes ?)

and therfore G will think each page has less backlinks - is this what you mean?
if it is is this bad or not worth worrying about?

thanks again for your help

It is only bad (and I'm not even sure - maybe somehow G knows they're the same) if you rely heavily on you internal PR flow (e.g. if you have a very new site, or if you want PR to flow from an old page to a new one). But if you have enough backlinks from other sites (which are more effective anyway) it's hardly worth worrying about.

Great experiment, love to see the results by the way.