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DesignGroup
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Nov 22, 2005, 10:50 AM
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Heya;
Thanks for that, but the other reason we are not using the pagebreak script is that it messes up the search engines.
The pagebreak script takes the text into one long string in javascript, then displays only part, making a link to a javascript generated 2nd page. Search Engines do not read javascript, so neither page will be indexed correctly. So, it is a "trick" that works visually mostly, but has real problems.
The script also messed up the punctuation, spacing, and did not handle extended characters. It ws incompatible with the counter as the counter code depends on the title tag, so if someone reads both pages, it is listed twice in the stats. I suggested to AMSCRIPTS that they either do not count the 2nd page (after all it is a article read counter, not a page read counter supposedly!) or they add in a unique identifier.. like (page 2) or page x to the title...
Otherwise, longer articles will have 2x the popularity.
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carminejg3
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Nov 22, 2005, 10:57 AM
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I know from experence. I'd preferr reading an article on one page. Sites use mutliply pages to beaf up page views but to a reader I think its no a pleasent reading...
Also engines love content. and a one page 1000 word article is better then 5, 200 word articles.
Also some engines can crawl javasrcipt, just prefer not to... thats one one and only complaint with am. the next buttons are crptic perl code BUT... if you just display 20 or more articles per category, they will get indexed anyway....
I just implemented the automatic author post... curious to see if well get any takers with some good content.
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DesignGroup
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Nov 22, 2005, 11:28 AM
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Re: [carminejg3] Page Break Script
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Cool.
We have very long articles written by published book writers, so a slight break up might be good.
I'm hoping version 2.0+ will handle breaking pages up intelligently.
Or, we can put half the content into a 2nd field, and link it.
Nice site, by the way. You integrated Gossamer very well.
Most of the SE's used to read comments...
I'm not sure of engines crawling javascript. I'd see some funny results. Javascript is interpeted by the browser. Of course, they could interpet the javascript, but it would not make sense as they would not know for certain what was visible on the page, so then I could keyword stuff the page with anything I wanted, including links. I used to get top 10 listings on top income producing keywords 4-5 years ago with tricks, now I just want good content, automated if possible.
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carminejg3
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Nov 22, 2005, 11:45 AM
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I don't have time to fake out search engines... granted it may cost me some money, but we try and get good content and still hope that content is king :-)
this way people find and book mark the site best they like it. It's to scary to live with full dependance on the engines....
thats why the whole google pr is good. people link, but bad because now the sites with big pockets get better links.
I've seen some big sites emailing people saying you should like to us, since it will look good for your site.
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Nov 22, 2005, 11:58 AM
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Yes, content is what the real sites are about these days.
We spend quite a lot every month on the articles, which are exclusive to us.
No, we do not do much SEO these days. In the small amount of optimizing for search engines we do now, I look mainly at links and titles.
Of course, good writers are hard to find.
And even the best writers need direction and editing.
Our editor has her hands full editing 10-20 full length articles per month!
Most of the link requests we gat are for banner farms or a site with 3-5 republished or copied articles.
And Google? Google loves content, so we can only improve in ranking. We are now at a PR 5, so I hope in 6 months we can hit PR 6.
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