HTML keywords & search engines

Subject: HTML keywords & search engines
From: John Cornellier <john -dot- cornellier -at- PARIS -dot- CARDS -dot- DELARUE -dot- COM>
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 11:28:42 GMT

Kim Keegan wondered whether I was positive I wanted to have "fubar" as a
keyword.

Well, since you do ask: I'm trying to test the web spiders' efficiency, ie do
they find the pages based on the keywords? After one week it doesn't come up on
any spider when I search for fubar plus the other "normal" keywords. (However
searching on fubar does pull up some odd pages, such as "The Fubar Internet
Offramp...).

Do spiders even use keywords? I'm not sure. If they do, is this a valid test?
Don't know. Is this the ideal choice of dummy keyword? Perhaps not.

Anyone have any tips on getting a site registered with the search engines?

FWIW, my totally unscientific tests lead me to think that Hotbot is very
efficient.

John
john -dot- cornellier -at- paris -dot- cards -dot- delarue -dot- com

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