[Ham-Computers] RE: OT - Sorry for waste of bandwidth

[Hsu, Aaron (NBC Universal)]

Yes, there was a way discovered several years ago where you could stack the meta tags such that search engines would list your website higher on the list.  However, modern search engine robots are much more sophisticated and no longer just just the meta tag info.  How all this works, I don't know as I don't code websites.  But I do remember when the Google database was first "poisoned" a few years ago when someone coded their webpage such that when people googled "weapons of mass destruction" (via the "I'm feeling lucky button), a prank website was listed.  Here's an article with info on it, another Google prank, and the "cloaking" method that was used to make it work.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/07/03/google_bombed_by_missing_wmds/

Here's a Wiki on metatags and search engine optimization:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metatags

Most of this info is as "greek" to me as brain surgury (which I can also find how to do via Google <g>).

BTW, Jeff, *real* men code HTML with EDLIN!

Holy crap...just for fun, I Wiki'd EDLIN and apparently it's still included with Windows (including Vista)!  Talk about an old DOS app that won't die.

Anyways...<Q><Enter><Y>

73,

  - Aaron, NN6O



-----Original Message-----
Sent: Monday, July 30, 2007 5:05 PM
Subject: Re: [Ham-Computers] OT - Sorry for waste of bandwidth

  Well, nobody shot at me yet, so I'll ask here!

I know enough about web design to know how to set up meta names and 
keywords, but my boss insists that there is a way to get a search engine 
to put a web site onto the first few pages returned on a search, without 
having to pay for it. He’s not talking about a scam, but a supposedly 
legitimate way to do this.

Other than meta names and keywords, do you know of any way to get a web 
site more prominence in a search engine?