Hi,

Do you guys how search engines like ? One site I'm working on now
requires the user to select which region he/she is from on the start
page. That value is stored in a . So without you can't get
past the start page. Does this leave the search engines at the start
page? Right now google only index the start pages on my site and I'm
trying to figure out why.

If I can't use , how would you force users to select a region but
letting the search engine spiders in on the site somehow?

Hope this wasn't too off topic.

Kind Regards Emil

On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 9:29 AM, Emil Edeholt <emil@knmedical.se> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Do you guys how search engines like ? One site I'm working on now
> requires the user to select which region he/she is from on the start page.
> That value is stored in a . So without you can't get past the
> start page. Does this leave the search engines at the start page? Right now
> google only index the start pages on my site and I'm trying to figure out
> why.
>
> If I can't use , how would you force users to select a region but
> letting the search engine spiders in on the site somehow?

One way to do it would be to allow Google (and/or other search
engines) to access the site by bypassing the region-selection
entirely.

<?php
if(preg_match('/Google/Uis',$_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'])) {
// Allow Google to pass through.
}
?>

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Search engines won't come past that page. How about setting a default
region when a user enters a different page then your main page?

Daniel Brown wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 9:29 AM, Emil Edeholt <emil@knmedical.se> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Do you guys how search engines like ? One site I'm working on now
>> requires the user to select which region he/she is from on the start page.
>> That value is stored in a . So without you can't get past the
>> start page. Does this leave the search engines at the start page? Right now
>> google only index the start pages on my site and I'm trying to figure out
>> why.
>>
>> If I can't use , how would you force users to select a region but
>> letting the search engine spiders in on the site somehow?
>>
>
> One way to do it would be to allow Google (and/or other search
> engines) to access the site by bypassing the region-selection
> entirely.
>
> <?php
> if(preg_match('/Google/Uis',$_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'])) {
> // Allow Google to pass through.
> }
> ?>
>
>

At 3:29 PM +0200 4/7/08, Emil Edeholt wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Do you guys how search engines like ? One site I'm working on
>now requires the user to select which region he/she is from on the
>start page. That value is stored in a . So without you
>can't get past the start page. Does this leave the search engines at
>the start page? Right now google only index the start pages on my
>site and I'm trying to figure out why.
>
>If I can't use , how would you force users to select a region
>but letting the search engine spiders in on the site somehow?
>
>Hope this wasn't too off topic.
>
>Kind Regards Emil

Emil:

My advice -- give the SE what it's looking for. Place a description
of what your site is about on the start page. If you don't want users
to see it, then place the text off-left via css position. This would
also those with assistive technologies and thus SE's shouldn't
complain.

Cheers,

tedd


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If you put the items offscreen with css, you get scroll bars, looks ugly,
some people will always scroll over to find what is there.

if you make the text invisible with css it is machine readable but ...
also lets you set different parts of the page to include in print

in the external stylesheet or in the header <style></style>
@media all { .dontall { display:none } }
@media print { .dontprint { display:none } }
@media screen { .dontshow { display:none } }

<p class='dontall'>search engine text: google finds it people dont</p>
<p>this shows always</p>
<p class='dontprint'>this screen menu doesnt print: menu blah blah blah</p>
<p class='dontshow'>this alternate paragraph replaces the screen menu on
print pages</p>
<p>this shows always</p>

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"tedd" <tedd.sperling@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:p06240805c41fff6a515c@[192.168.1.101]...
> At 3:29 PM +0200 4/7/08, Emil Edeholt wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >Do you guys how search engines like ? One site I'm working on
> >now requires the user to select which region he/she is from on the
> >start page. That value is stored in a . So without you
> >can't get past the start page. Does this leave the search engines at
> >the start page? Right now google only index the start pages on my
> >site and I'm trying to figure out why.
> >
> >If I can't use , how would you force users to select a region
> >but letting the search engine spiders in on the site somehow?
> >
> >Hope this wasn't too off topic.
> >
> >Kind Regards Emil
>
> Emil:
>
> My advice -- give the SE what it's looking for. Place a description
> of what your site is about on the start page. If you don't want users
> to see it, then place the text off-left via css position. This would
> also those with assistive technologies and thus SE's shouldn't
> complain.
>
> Cheers,
>
> tedd
>
>
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