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[blue]

I am doing a link exchange with a site and checked to see if the page with my link was indexed in the serps. I found out that NON of this web site's link pages were indexed by the SE's. When i checked his HTML i noticed the site had two sets of html closing tags. One set of </BODY></HTML> before the sites link exchange list and another </BODY></HTML> tag at the end of the site. My question is what is this webmaster trying to do? And will link pages like that ever get indexed by SE's?

[chrishirst]

while the extra tags are invalid markup it may not cause them to be not indexed. I have seen pages with 3 sets of body & html tags get fully indexed. I would be looking for another link scam that is being pulled, remove your links to them and tell them why you have done so.

[Randy]

Sounds rather dubious to me as well, though I doubt the code you noted has anything to do with why the link pages aren't indexed.

The first place I would be looking is their robots.txt file to see if they are denying access to those pages to the spiders.

[qwerty]

...or a robots meta tag on the links page.

[LinkAdage]

Make sure they have a link from the sites real pages to the links pages. The best way to stop a links page to not get spidered is to make it an orphan.