Re: search engine question

Hi Elizabeth:

It seems you have not much choice. Perhaps you could try meta tags like
Robots - index, follow and other relevant meta tags...

On the other hand I'm not sure whether there is any advantages of the free
submission to the search engines.

regards

Ivo

----- Original Message -----
From: "Davies, Elizabeth H." <EHDavies(at)West.com>
To: "HWG-technique Mailing List (E-mail)" <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 8:50 PM
Subject: search engine question


I have a client who gave me a purely graphics intensive website with almost
no text content. They refuse to allow text content on the index page and
what text there is must be in font size 1... (yes, I know, I know.... but I
can't change that)

Our webservers are hardcoded to hit index.html, then index.cgi (I have no
control over this). The index page must be a cgi (it's dynamic in several
aspects). I have heard of something called a crawler html page that could
contain all the content right marketing verbiage... is it possible?

I first thought I could build a nice text/content rich page with appropriate
links to the main page in case someone accidentally hit it and call it
index.html .... BUT our webservers won't allow that. They also disable any
.htaccess files and robots.txt. Both of which I am in death-battle with the
internet engineer over..

Any ideas? Does a robot go by what the webserver automatically serves up in
that order? or does it search for files on it's own (such as robots.txt...
index.html... default.html... index.cgi... etc)?

Elizabeth Davies
Web Designer
West Corporation
(402)573-3386 or X206-7562

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