Re: search engine refinement

Hi Elias,

Thanks for your input on search engine strategy but perhaps I didn't 
make myself clear that I was talking about a search engine on site 
that would only be searching the documents that I specify.

What I have is a car dealership. I put the name of the car on each 
page's metatags. So when a person types in "chevy" it will only bring 
up those pages with chevys on them and not pick up the "buick, chevy, 
pontiac, olds" logos and alt tags, links to the other pages, etc., 
that appear on each page in the html code and other text. This is why 
I need it to only search the meta tags. I'm just starting to load the 
car pages and there will be hundreds of them eventually so it's 
important that I get this fine tuned now.

I am aware of being able to eliminate some pages from the search but 
what I need is to know how to get it to focus just on the meta tags.

If you or anyone else has any suggestions for me I would appreciate 
it. Here is the URL of the search engine:

http://parkwaychevrolet.net/cgi-bin/search.cgi

Thanks,

Lori

>Each Search engine has its own way of working, and the designers of 
>these engines take ill any attempts to impress or trick them.
>Many good engines ignore your meta tags in favor of examining your 
>text. Many of those that do this will also blackball you for 
>attempting to use hidden text (ie. in the same color as the 
>background).
>
>IMO those as do search the text are the better engines. They will 
>index more things than you could ever put in a meta-tag. You need 
>not try for good position with engines such as these. For example, 
>goto http://www.alltheweb.com and enter my name (Elias Thienpont), 
>and do a search on the exact phrase... and you will come up with 10 
>documents with my name on them. I can assure you that my name is not 
>in the meta tags of any of them, and since my name is uncommon 
>enough, all of the pages you find will be relevant. (Sorry Bill 
>Smith, you are out of luck on this one.)
>
>At 03:40 PM 9/18/00 -0700, you wrote:
>>Hi All,
>>
>>I'm wondering if there is a way to get a search engine to just 
>>concentrate on the meta tag keywords? The one I'm using is picking 
>>up every word on every page.
>>
>>My web host provides the following search engine cgi:
>>
>>#                       SEARCH_ENGINE.CGI
>>#
>># This script was written by Gunther Birznieks
>># Date Created: 4-18-96
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>Lori
>
>Br. Elias Thienpont OSB
>http://www.assumptionabbey.com

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