Re: <a href="" meta="">

I haven't tried, but understand one can include text, and either offset, or
1pt it, to fool google etc.
that isn't my concern.

imagine a jpg with 400M hits, sounds like a good one to me. so in order to
judge the value of a site we need some guide as to why people visit it.
the onward links qualify this, I could put it all in the alt, longdesc or
just make up a tag.
i was merely asking if this is already done, or planned more broadly.
(seems not from the response)

thanks

jay



----- Original Message -----
From: "David Woolley" <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>
To: <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Sent: Monday, June 17, 2002 7:11 AM
Subject: Re: <a href="" meta="">


>
> > Is this already a standard?
> > if not anyone have a good hack? ie where I can dump the info so that =
> > google would pick it up?
>
> I believe Google indexes real content only.  They don't even process
> meta header elements, for indexing purposes.
>
> More generally, what you appear to be asking for is a mechanism that
> would be abused to mislead people into accessing the site.  A
> commercial web site operator could create multiple web sites, most
> of which exist just link to their main web site, but provide irrelevant,
> but frequently requested, keywords to trick people into accessing the
> main site.
>
> I could imagine a service that indexes referrals and not the actual
> pages, but Google only uses referrals to establish popularity.
>
> In fact, there are proposals (RDF?) for letting sites create electronic
> reviews of other sites, however I don't get the impression that
> commercial sites have taken any real interest in these.  As we all know,
> most barely understand HTML.
>
> I'm not even actually sure whether you really are suggesting hidden
> keywords referencing third parties or hidden keywords for your own site,
> but either way, Google's philosophy is that they don't process hidden
> material, and engines that do would object to sites that have hidden
> keywords that don't relate to visible content of the same site.
>
>

Received on Monday, 17 June 2002 07:50:53 UTC