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

[Duane Fischer, W8DBF]

Aaron,

Any chance I can get a hacker to write me some binary code to send these ... 
postcards back to the "actual" sender and turn his CPU into an Atari look 
alike model 2600 with his image emblazened upon the buttocks of the graphic 
in Donkey Kong?


Duane Fischer, W8DBF/WPE8CXO
dfischer at usol.com
HHI: Halligan's Hallicrafters International
http://www.w9wze.net
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Hsu, Aaron (NBC Universal)" <aaron.hsu at nbcuni.com>
To: "I>Ham-Computers" <Ham-Computers at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, July 30, 2007 8:49 PM
Subject: [Ham-Computers] RE: OT - Sorry for waste of bandwidth


> 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?
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