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Autocrat  
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 More options Jun 23 2008, 4:35 am
From: Autocrat
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 01:35:41 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Mon, Jun 23 2008 4:35 am
Subject: Re: 6 months since we mostly dropped out of the search index
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Well, not alot can be said really.
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How about Hidden links/text?
Viewing the page without images shows the top nav bar becomes
'invisibile' ....
Viewing the page without images shows a lot of text that is hard to
read.

(hell, even if it isn't an SE issue, should be fixed for certain user-
types.)

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How about applying rel="nofollow" to the links in noscrip[t tags?

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Links to non-content pages?

Lets go here...
http://gadgetguy.com.au/home-appliances-whitegoods-air-conditioning-h...
first thing on the left is the Russel Hobbs rice cooker...
(with 2 links to 2 urls! We'll take the top one)
http://gadgetguy.com.au/russell-hobbs-reflections-rice-cooker-review-...

now I see 2 more links...
Review | Features

Review...
http://gadgetguy.com.au/product.asp?id=14&m_review=0
Erm... not really seeing anything important on here...
nothing specific to Reviewing hte Russel Hobbs rice cooker anyway
(inc. irrelevant title, h1 etc.)

Features...
http://gadgetguy.com.au/features.asp?id=14&m_review=0
This one has no real content at all?

So what are the bots meant to be indexing?
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Weak Image Alt attributes...
Why does it just say 'Product' ?
Not exactly useful to blind people (including bots ;))...
so missing an opportunity to not only be helpful, but possibly get an
extra point or two with the SE's.

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Any exernal duplicate content...
Is it the content 'yours' or is it from other sources?
Is it being 'fed' to other sites?
Is it being scrapped/copied by other sites?

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Hope all that helps.
(May be worth getting the develoepr in as well, saves you running back
and forth ;))


 
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