Links in Meta Tags

[Gatorajc]

As far as quality links to raise your search engine ranking.

Is there a difference between an actual visual link or one that is the meta tag or even one that is commented out.

Pretty sure I know the answer. Just wondering.

AJ

 

[Gatorajc]

Actually reading that, link is a bad term. I meant URL

AJ

 

[RISTMO]

I think we figured out a while ago in the SEO forum that as long as there's an "

http://",

Google will follow that url....About Meta tags, however, I'm not so sure...I would tend to think that those aren't followed, but I haven't heard either way.

Rick

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http://www.ristmo.com/

RISTMO Designs

http://www.arabchurch.com/

Arab Church

http://www.reference-guides.com/

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[RISTMO]

One thing to note, though--by having an actual link, you will get keywords connected to that url....<a href=&quot;

http://www.ristmo.com&quot;>RISTMO

Desgins</a> (advertising...jk ) will associate RISTMO Designs with the url &quot;

http://www.ristmo.com&quot;--haha...that's

2 times :-D...

Rick

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http://www.ristmo.com/

RISTMO Designs

http://www.arabchurch.com/

Arab Church

http://www.reference-guides.com/

Reference Guides

 

[Gatorajc]

even say if it is commented out?

AJ

 

[Wullie]

Hmmm,

I wouldn't bet my life on it but I'm not too sure that any http:// link would be indexed. I would say that there are certain conditions that would have to apply before the spider read it and tried to follow it.

Commented links, again not sure but my guess would be no.

Hope this helps

Wullie

http://www.necomputers.org.uk

http://www.freshlookdesign.co.uk

http://www.freshlookdesign.com

http://www.whiland.co.uk

The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change.
The leader adjusts the sails. - John Maxwell

 

[Wullie]

RISTMO,

I forgot to mention. Don't put too much faith into getting results from the actual link text, the relevenace of this has been going down and down since it became clear that Google could be fooled in this way.

Hope this helps

Wullie

http://www.necomputers.org.uk

http://www.freshlookdesign.co.uk

http://www.freshlookdesign.com

http://www.whiland.co.uk

The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change.
The leader adjusts the sails. - John Maxwell

 

[ChrisHirst]

and RISTMO apart from that you left on the trailing '/' from the URL copy and paste so the links will 404




Chris.

Indifference will be the downfall of mankind, but who cares?

 

[RISTMO]

OH NO!!!!!!!!! I meant this:

One thing to note, though--by having an actual link, you will get keywords connected to that url....<a href=&quot;

http://www.ristmo.com/&quot;>RISTMO

Desgins</a> (advertising...jk ) will associate RISTMO Designs with the url &quot;

http://www.ristmo.com/&quot;--haha...that's

2 times ...

There :-D.

About the other stuff...Remember that one thread....we were talking about Google not seeing urls in included in a .js files, but if the url was in js on the page itself it would? I guess I might be jumping to conclusions....did you mean that it would if the js was not commented out, only...Or did you not say that it would follow a url in js...I thought you did, but maybe not

I don't really rely on using the keywords in the tag...like <a href=&quot;

http://www.arabchurch.com/&quot;>Arab

Church: Arabic Christian Resources</a> -D). I do always say to use those words in the link, when asked, but the link in itself is what I work hardest on getting...Off topic question--approx what do I need for a PR of 5? I have about 16 external links (above a PR of 4...yeah...Google hasn't added these links from TT since I started posting again a couple of weeks ago) to that site and 175 internal, but I'm still at 4....Dmoz won't let me submit...the submission form's been down for ages!

Rick

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http://www.ristmo.com/

RISTMO Designs

http://www.arabchurch.com/

Arab Church

http://www.reference-guides.com/

Reference Guides

 

[ChrisHirst]

Whoops SSTEERIIKKE TWOOO. (and I'm English)

spiders aren't javascript enabled so the script can't run hence they don't see any URLs it has to be a plain simple <a href=&quot;

http://www.ristmo.com

&quot;>Ristmo Designs</a> (it does work when you get it right)

DMOZ is down until July 22nd (at least) for a major server upgrade even the editors are locked out and the errors should be fixed by then (hopefully). Also Google is still in some flux after the last algo changes. The datacentres are still showing different results. Hopefully business will be back to normal next month.




Chris.

Indifference will be the downfall of mankind, but who cares?

 

[RISTMO]

You're saying that this won't be followed?

<select onChange=&quot;this.location.href='

http://www.ristmo.com/;'&quot;>

If that url doesn't work this time, I guess I stike out and go to bed....*yawn*

About Dmoz....I meant, I fill out the form for a new website, and there's an error on the page being submitted to . That's not just because it was shut down...That's a scripting error...Hopefully it will be fixed by then...I don't know how many times I've emailed them about that problem over the last few months!

Rick

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http://www.ristmo.com/

RISTMO Designs

http://www.arabchurch.com/

Arab Church

http://www.reference-guides.com/

Reference Guides

 

[ChrisHirst]

The 500 errors on DMOZ have been caused by a hardware problem and the servers being overloaded at certain times for about the past 3\4 months, sometimes if you refreshed the submit page a few time it would go through, and now they are replacing the editing server and should fix the 500 errors as well (hopefully)




Chris.

Indifference will be the downfall of mankind, but who cares?

 

[RISTMO]

Great :-D.

Rick

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http://www.ristmo.com/

RISTMO Designs

http://www.arabchurch.com/

Arab Church

http://www.reference-guides.com/

Reference Guides

 

[ChrisHunt]

A point that seems to have been missed is whether that link would help your visitors. Sod the search engines, if the link is useful, include it; if it isn't, don't.

Search engine algorithms aim to select the sites which have the most useful content. Being stupid machines, they don't always succeed - but they are getting better all the time. You can either build a site aimed to please the search engine robots, or one aimed at people. The former may bring short-term benefits, but you'll be continually tweaking your site to keep one step of the robot algorithms. A people-friendly site will win out in the long term, because people will pass your URL on to their friends, put links on their own sites, give you repeat business, etc.

OK, so the two approaches aren't mutually exclusive. You can design for people without locking out the robots, and many things you can do will help both. Making sure your site validates as standards-compliant (X)HTML will stand you in good stead, making your site accessible to people with disabilities will also help robots - they effectively use text-only browsers to visit your site.

If you're thinking of spending time adding comments, meta tags and other hidden gew-gaws to enhance your pages' standing, consider whether it would be better spent...
[ol]
[li]Adding new content to your site - the more content there is, there more there is for people to use (and robots to index).[/li]

[li]Exchanging links with other relevant sites - helps people find your site (and &quot;link popularity&quot; is an important factor in Google and other SEs)[/li]

[li]Hanging out on discussion forums and shamelessly plugging your URL (just kidding, Ristmo!)[/li]
[/ol]
With option (3) in mind , I'll mention one of my own sites,

http://www.mcgonagall-online.org.uk

. It ranks 1 on most engines if you search for &quot;McGonagall&quot;, and top 5 if you search for &quot;William McGonagall&quot;. I've done very little search-engine specific work to get this, I've just concentrated on building the site, made it XHTML compliant and as friendly as I can, and put a lot of time into getting people to link to it. It seems to have worked out!

</rant>

-- Chris Hunt
Extra Connections Ltd

http://www.extracon.com

The real world's OK for a visit, but you wouldn't want to LIVE there!

 

[RISTMO]

&quot;Hanging out on discussion forums and shamelessly plugging your URL (just kidding, Ristmo!)&quot; -- I like that idea!

;-)
Rick

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http://www.ristmo.com/

RISTMO Designs

http://www.arabchurch.com/

Arab Church

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