Re: CSS and search engines

From: Charles Rowan <carowan_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Thu 21 Apr 2005 14:11:23 -0500

Hi Shalabh,

I took a quick look at your code:

remove the "<meta name="revisit-after" content="30
days">--you want a spider to return as often as
possible. I dont think robots listen to this anyway.
This is old school, you might want to upgrade to a
robots.txt file for more control.

Your menu is in javascript and its look and feel is
controlled by your style sheet. Your style sheet is
used to separate code from content, and doesn't
contain any links.

Google supposedly can follow JS menus, but why make it
difficult? Add a footer with plain jane HTML links
with keyword rich anchor text on all of your pages,
(dont forget a sitemap) and let Google find it on its
own.

If you are really interested in creating a true search
engine friendly menu in HTML with CSS check out
htmldog.com. It has a great tutorial on making CSS
based menus- (http://htmldog.com/articles/suckerfish/
Ive used it myself- lightweight and only requires 8
lines of javascript.)


According to Yahoo! you have no inbound links. Apply
to some free directories so you can to get some
inbound links going. Consider trading links, but watch
out who you are linking to.

visit some SEO forums, SEOchat.com and
digitalpoint.com are great, in order to make your site
more accessible to visitors and spiders.

And finally, the spider will return, don't worry about
it. However, you do have some influence over when it
returns and how often by using fresh (organic :-))
content and lotsa inbound links.

Good Luck!

Charlie




Received on Thu Apr 21 2005 - 14:11:23 CDT