SEK2 Search engine killer
On Wednesday, July 3, 2002, at 06:33 PM, Barrett Butler wrote:
> Maybe I'm missing something then.
> It is my understanding that the search engines that do not index our
> merchant sites will index the mirror and therefore all the links
> offered to the public will be directly to a mirror page; right ?
> If that is the case then what kind of impression is one going to make
> if the customer sees a crappy page that only a developer would
> understand that it is just a mirror page to hook search engines ???
>
> -Barrett
> [email protected]
> http://creativepapersonline.com
> Hosted by Cybrhost.com MM 4.12-OUI 4.30
>
> On Wednesday, July 3, 2002, at 01:12 PM, [email protected] wrote:
>
>>
>> Oh. Just worked out what that "-" is. You have not entered any
>> keywords in the Basic Config.
>>
>> Two things. Firstly, you are very welcome to take what SEK2
>> creates and change it from a "design" perspective to match the
>> look and feel of your site to perfection.. but why? SEK2 is a way
>> to generate lots of content with little effort. The purpose of the
>> SEK2 mirror is very specific.. and it ISN'T to have someone surf the
>> mirror.. quite the opposite. So while changes to create visual
>> perfection are a choice you can make.. why do it? You loose the
>> ability to quickly generate the mirror based on the current data in
>> your store.
>>
>> Now as far as perfect HTML go, I have no doubt that you are right..
>> and at the same time what is the implication? I admit to some
>> lazy HTML habits as a developer, and these are around parts of the
>> HTML definition that are states as "the way it should be" but in
>> reality have absolutely zero implication in the real world. The
>> SEK2 mirrors will load very happily in IE and Netscape all the way
>> back to v3.
>>
>> Keith
>>
>>
>> On 3 Jul 2002, at 5:14, Barrett Butler wrote:
>>
>>> I'm doing some initial testing with SEK2 by first just working on
>>> optimizing
>>> the look of the index page.
>>> I have found that it (it defined as sek + all other variables
>>> affecting
>>> output) is making a lot of bad html. Just to emphasize; that I don't
>>> want to
>>> single out SEK2 as it looks like it is going to be an extremely
>>> useful tool
>>> and most certainly it is probably something on my end.
>>> What I'm finding is a lot of <td> or <tr> or already defined errors
>>> or extra
>>> table artifacts just floating around in the source between table by
>>> themselves and several instances of no starting or ending tags here
>>> and
>>> there.
>>>
>>> <<A HREF ="http://www.creativepapersonline.com/store/static_index.html>">http://www.creativepapersonline.com/store/static_index.html></A>
>>> That is a page I did a bunch of fixing numerous table artifacts on.
>>> <<A HREF ="http://www.creativepapersonline.com/store/index.html>">http://www.creativepapersonline.com/store/index.html></A>
>>> Is untouched page generated by SEK2.
>>>
>>> What tip and tricks do those of you that are using it already have up
>>> your
>>> sleeves?
>>> Thanks,
>>> -Barrett
>>> [email protected]
>>> http://creativepapersonline.com
>>> Hosted by Cybrhost.com MM 4.12-OUI 4.30
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> Keith Hunniford
>> <A HREF ="http://www.MvCOOL.com - Miva Module Store">http://www.MvCOOL.com - Miva Module Store</A>
>> <A HREF ="http://www.wump.com - Miva Development Services">http://www.wump.com - Miva Development Services</A>
>>
>>
>
On Wednesday, July 3, 2002, at 06:33 PM, Barrett Butler wrote:
> Maybe I'm missing something then.
> It is my understanding that the search engines that do not index our
> merchant sites will index the mirror and therefore all the links
> offered to the public will be directly to a mirror page; right ?
> If that is the case then what kind of impression is one going to make
> if the customer sees a crappy page that only a developer would
> understand that it is just a mirror page to hook search engines ???
>
> -Barrett
> [email protected]
> http://creativepapersonline.com
> Hosted by Cybrhost.com MM 4.12-OUI 4.30
>
> On Wednesday, July 3, 2002, at 01:12 PM, [email protected] wrote:
>
>>
>> Oh. Just worked out what that "-" is. You have not entered any
>> keywords in the Basic Config.
>>
>> Two things. Firstly, you are very welcome to take what SEK2
>> creates and change it from a "design" perspective to match the
>> look and feel of your site to perfection.. but why? SEK2 is a way
>> to generate lots of content with little effort. The purpose of the
>> SEK2 mirror is very specific.. and it ISN'T to have someone surf the
>> mirror.. quite the opposite. So while changes to create visual
>> perfection are a choice you can make.. why do it? You loose the
>> ability to quickly generate the mirror based on the current data in
>> your store.
>>
>> Now as far as perfect HTML go, I have no doubt that you are right..
>> and at the same time what is the implication? I admit to some
>> lazy HTML habits as a developer, and these are around parts of the
>> HTML definition that are states as "the way it should be" but in
>> reality have absolutely zero implication in the real world. The
>> SEK2 mirrors will load very happily in IE and Netscape all the way
>> back to v3.
>>
>> Keith
>>
>>
>> On 3 Jul 2002, at 5:14, Barrett Butler wrote:
>>
>>> I'm doing some initial testing with SEK2 by first just working on
>>> optimizing
>>> the look of the index page.
>>> I have found that it (it defined as sek + all other variables
>>> affecting
>>> output) is making a lot of bad html. Just to emphasize; that I don't
>>> want to
>>> single out SEK2 as it looks like it is going to be an extremely
>>> useful tool
>>> and most certainly it is probably something on my end.
>>> What I'm finding is a lot of <td> or <tr> or already defined errors
>>> or extra
>>> table artifacts just floating around in the source between table by
>>> themselves and several instances of no starting or ending tags here
>>> and
>>> there.
>>>
>>> <<A HREF ="http://www.creativepapersonline.com/store/static_index.html>">http://www.creativepapersonline.com/store/static_index.html></A>
>>> That is a page I did a bunch of fixing numerous table artifacts on.
>>> <<A HREF ="http://www.creativepapersonline.com/store/index.html>">http://www.creativepapersonline.com/store/index.html></A>
>>> Is untouched page generated by SEK2.
>>>
>>> What tip and tricks do those of you that are using it already have up
>>> your
>>> sleeves?
>>> Thanks,
>>> -Barrett
>>> [email protected]
>>> http://creativepapersonline.com
>>> Hosted by Cybrhost.com MM 4.12-OUI 4.30
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> Keith Hunniford
>> <A HREF ="http://www.MvCOOL.com - Miva Module Store">http://www.MvCOOL.com - Miva Module Store</A>
>> <A HREF ="http://www.wump.com - Miva Development Services">http://www.wump.com - Miva Development Services</A>
>>
>>
>
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