Re: Anchor tags: Now that I think about it . . .

Now that I think about it . . . 

Once upon a time I  had a client (that was NOT the funny part!) that
offered competing brands of very similar products. I think you old timers
here will remember a discussion we had about this . . . 

The manufacturers *refused* to allow their products to be advertised
together on the same web site (Duuuh!, anyway).

In an effort to pacify them and my customer, "we" (you all know that WE
right?!?!) had this brilliant idea.

I created sub directories off the site owners "root" domain:
www.xxxxx.com/productA and www.xxxxx.com/productB

and did not put a button on any of them leading to any other of them. You
could not get to either product from the site owners "main" site. I know,
sounds a little stupid. And I really did try to explain why.

Anyway . . . I felt sorry for the poor smuck and tried to save him some
money by putting an "invisible" link (an empty link tag set) to each area
on his home page anyway, so that the spiders would find him and I would not
have to charge him for search service submissions too. I used an empty tag
despite my "dot trick" because he also insisted on a most bizarre BG I just
could not match my dot to.

It didn't work. And I got in trouble because it didn't work. After too many
weeks of waiting, his new "areas" were nowhere to be found.

I had to submit both of those areas separately.

When they started showing up, he saw why I thought it was stupid. As a
matter of fact, I can clearly remember hearing him say "THAT was stupid."

The returns  from the search engines ran something like:

www.xxxxx.com
www.xxxxx.com/productA
www.xxxxx.com/productB

He was busted by both companies within a week.

SO . . . I knew you were wondering if this was ever leading any where, and
it is. I just don't know where. Just kidding.

I think it is practical application proof of the requirement for these
types of containers to actually have "values" of some sort in them, atleast
to function reliably.

Whew!
Fuzzy.
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