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[powerofeyes]

Hello Polarmate,
thanks for helping me in this topic with some valid example
VIJAY

[polarmate]

vijay - why the all caps?!
Seriously though, this one stumped me when I found it. I used to see the description tag used all the time as snippets for a lot of my sites up until about 6 months ago. But then description tags started showing up only for all flash sites - at least for the keywords that I was looking at.

Edited by polarmate, 28 September 2003 - 06:18 PM.

[polarmate]

This forum is good enough Vijay.

[powerofeyes]

Hello polar mate,
Nice to know your profile i feel we are talking topics irrelant to this, so nice meeting you,
thanks,
VIJAY.

[Webnauts]

Googlebot crawling but not indexing

I really don't understand... Googlebot began to crawl this website ( www.inflorence.com) in April.

It visited at least 4 pages, but today, september 26th it have indexed just the default.htm

Why is Googlebot respidering only the home page?

Hi Friend!

I must agree with someone above mentioning that frames can produce negative ranking results, but before you would begin thinking of redesigning your web site from frames to transitional or to CSS, it would have been very helpful to improve your rankings, if you at least made your frames accessible.

For example in the code of your page: http://www.inflorenc...ti-stampati.htm could become in a few steps accessible, as below:

Lines 7,9,10: The "frame" element requires the "title" attribute to facilitate frame identification and navigation. Frame titles must be meaningful. For example, "Table of Contents", "Where the content is displayed", and "Sitewide navigation bar" (or simply "Navigation"). [Section 1194.22 (i)].

For example: <FRAME src="left_frame.htm" title="Left frame: In Florence navigation menu">

More here: http://cita.rehab.ui...06/slide23.html

Also The "frame" element may require the "longdesc" attribute to specify a text equivalent of the frame. Note that the value of "longdesc" must be a URI and the text equivalent should complement the title. [P1, 1.1]

Longdesc would lead the user to a new page with a short description (including keywords in your content), and so far I know crawlers follow longdesc links!

More here: http://www.w3.org/TR...-longdesc-FRAME

Sorry for my bad English, though I hope I was understood. If you need any help to achieve the above, I would be glad to support you!

Edited by Jill, 28 September 2003 - 07:44 PM.

[Jill]

I have no test. I only have a result that shows that Google decided to use the meta description instead of a snippet on the page.

Any clues why Google decided the snippet should be picked up from the description and not from the content on the page? The word children does not exist on the page. The site's content is not properly optimized yet.

Interesting, Polarmate!

You do have "children" in the Title tag, which is probably helping with the relevance.

And I do see Google picking up Meta descriptions, occasionally and showing them in the SERP if they can best match the query. Haven't looked at this in about 6 months or so, however.

Jill

[beke]

I must agree with someone above mentioning that frames can produce negative ranking results, but before you would begin thinking of redesigning your web site from frames to transitional or to CSS, it would have been very helpful to improve your rankings, if you at least made your frames accessible.

Well,

the truth is that this is a very low-budget work, and I realized just two pages optimized for 4 keyphrases (the customer don't wont to change anithing in the site itself), the pages are this and this and I thought to make them visible for the spiders by this path

->root
->http://www.inflorenc...-uk/default.htm
->http://www.inflorenc.../mappa-sito.htm

and then to the optimized pages by the noframe tag of the "mappa-sito" page.

Does it sounds stupid?

[polarmate]

Yes, 'children' is in the Title tag but not on the page otherwise. I am planning on taking it off from the title to see what effect this will have.

[Leann_Pass]

Yes, 'children' is in the Title tag but not on the page otherwise. I am planning on taking it off from the title to see what effect this will have.

I hope you will also factor in links you may (or may not) have that contain 'chicldren'. The text, the links and the title are all huge factors. This would portray a better understand of the ranking.