[via Simon Willison] Scribbling.net’s useful tips on:
This is something less known:
Webloggers: use the meta tags to help the Googlebot index only your permalinks, not your constantly changing front page. To do this, use
<meta name=”robots” content=”noindex,follow” >
on your front page and
<meta name=”robots” content=”index,follow” >
on your posts’ permanent locations.
In fact, most weblogs didn’t use frame, flash or DHTML (major blog tools don’t use these stuff by default); and most bloggers maintain meaningful title of pages and links. If you start your blog with blogging tool like MT, your blog has been friendly to Googlebot. Scribbling.net has more tips to be more understandable by Googlebot, a recommended read.
Related Google information:
Reading Summary - Jan 19, 2006
Snakes and Rubies Talk - Jan 08, 2006
Symantec - Dec 28, 2005
Weekend Tech-and-reading activities - Dec 04, 2005
Constantly changed front page? I thought front page should be PERMANENT... Pls enlight me.
posted 11:49 AM on July 4, 2003 · comment by LcF · #
To help googlebot grab and index the most relevant page to users' search term, direct them to the permenant link of page instead of they keep crawling the frequent updated front page (weblog is a good example).
Check #7 of http://www.scribbling.net/entry/310/.